Eddie's Rail Fan Page: February 2016

                                          Hi Everyone!

                                        This is Eddie K, Your host and photographer here at
                                         Eddie's Railfan Page.

                                        Aside from my interests in trains and other transportation
                                        subjects, I am also an avid skating enthusiast as well.

                                       Just recently, I began hosting a skating page site on Facebook
                                       entitled "The Skaters Photo Rink."   https://www.facebook.com/groups/1008755602499611/

                                      Be sure to visit this fun and very family friendly Facebook site.

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                                      Eddie K. Fellow railfan and inline roller blader skate fan.

Photographed just east, of the Riverside Drive railroad crossing.

I took this photograph recently, at the Oak Park Society of Model

Engineers,H.O Scale Model Railroad Club in Oak Park Illinois.

What would normally be considered a cheap, toy train set type

of locomotive, turned out to be a surprisingly good performer

on the club's large model train layout. With a two car freight

train in tow, which was typical for a small industrial steam

locomotive switcher like this back in the day, this little engine

put on a mighty fine performance that night.

A prototypical short line that once owned a similar 0-4-0T

steam locomotive , was the Illinois Midland Railroad.

The Shaker Heights Rapid Transit system, provided successful

commuter rail service, to the greater Cleveland Ohio area for

many years. This line has since been rebuilt and upgraded.

From the internet site Fallen Flags.Org

www.rr-fallenflags.org

From the internet site Fallen Flags.Org.

www.rr-fallenflags.org

Photographed at the intersection of West Grand

and North 73rd Avenues.

After several decades in operation, the locally popular

Evergreen Park Aqua Club, will seen be having a date

with a demolition contractor. Preparations are already

in place, at this fun local suburban neighborhood seasonal

family entertainment venue, in Chicago's south suburbs.

After disappearing from the streets of Kansas City Missouri

in 1957, new modern light rail articulated streetcars, will

soon be operating in downtown Kansas City Missouri.

Photographed on Friday night, January 19th, 2016, at the

Oak Park Society of Model Engineers,H.O Scale Model

Railroad Club in Oak Park Illinois.

For a cheap little locomotive associated with Children's

toy train sets, this little locomotive performed quite -

surprisingly well on the model railroad club's mainline,

with a short two car train in tow, much like the prototype.

Although railroad companies merge eventually. sometimes it

may take a good while, perhaps several years...before some

equipment from the former railroad /railroads are repainted.

In the year of 1968, the New York Central and Pennsylvania

railroad companies merged and became the Penn Central R R.

By the early 1970's...the Penn Central and several other -

Northeastern United States railroad companies were in a bad

state of bankruptcy, and were bailed out and reorganized by the

U.S Government, thus becoming Conrail in 1976.

Technically, this could be a Conrail train in this photograph,

but ten years after the 1968 merger, this 1960's era PRR -

plug door box car is still rolling around in it's original

markings and color scheme in Conrail service.

Thank you for all the support fellow Railfans!

Photographed at the Oak Park Society of Model Engineers,H.O

Scale Model Railroad Club in Oak Park Illinois.

A somewhat mild winter for Chicago in 2016, has given

me the unusual opportunity, of enjoying some outdoor

roller blading early in the year. Normally unheard of this

time of the year, in the greater Chicagoland area.

I took this quick snap shop photo in traffic, through my

quickly opened driver side window while I was stopped.

Photographed at the Oak Park Society of Model Engineers,H.O

Scale Model Railroad Club in Oak Park Illinois.

Photographed at the Oak Park Society of Model Engineers,H.O

Scale Model Railroad Club in Oak Park Illinois.

From the internet site Fallen Flags.Org

www.rr-fallenflags.org

Photographed at the Oak Park Society of Model Engineers,H.O

Scale Model Railroad Club in Oak Park Illinois. Friday night,

January 29th, 2016.

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