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  2. Rochelle Railroad Park - Wikipedia

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    Map showing the layout of the park. The city chose the eastern quadrant of the crossing in which to build the park. Many factors went into the selection of the eastern quadrant, but by using it, the city was able to erect an elevated viewing platform with a gazebo-style roof, picnic tables, an area to build a re-creation of a hobo jungle, a display of strap rail track, a small preserved ...

  3. Rochelle, Illinois - Wikipedia

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    The community is home to the popular Rochelle Railroad Park where visitors from across the country come to watch passing trains at the intersection of the BNSF and Union Pacific Railroads; the Chicagoland Skydiving Center and Flight Deck Restaurant; and the Kennay Farms Distillery just west of Rochelle.

  4. Category:Railroad museums in Illinois - Wikipedia

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    Rochelle Railroad Park; S. Springfield Union Station (Illinois) W. Wyoming station (Illinois) This page was last edited on 11 October 2023, at 16:17 (UTC). Text is ...

  5. Geo D. Whitcomb Company - Wikipedia

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    A Whitcomb locomotive at Rochelle Railroad Park in Rochelle, Illinois. The Geo D. Whitcomb Company's largest knitting machinery customer was the Vassar Swiss Knitting Company of Rochelle, in northern Illinois. In 1907, the company moved to Rochelle, where they continued to build knitting machinery and gasoline powered locomotives for coal and ...

  6. Portal:Trains/Did you know/May 2005 - Wikipedia

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    ...that Rochelle Railroad Park is a public park operated by the city of Rochelle, Illinois, where railfans can safely observe passing UP and BNSF trains on the two railroad's double-track mainlines? Shinkansen 0 Series at Fukuyama in 2002

  7. Park Board members say Blue Line light rail crossing could ...

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    A proposed light rail station in north Minneapolis means more than 200 trains will cross the treasured Grand Rounds bike and pedestrian trail every day — a prospect that deeply concerns some ...

  8. Burlington Junction Railway - Wikipedia

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    The Burlington Junction Railway (reporting mark BJRY) is a Class III short line railroad which was chartered in 1985. [1] Originally operating on the southernmost 3 miles (4.8 km) of the former Burlington, Cedar Rapids and Northern Railway mainline in Burlington, Iowa after abandonment by the Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railroad, it provides short freight hauling, switching operations ...

  9. Aurora Subdivision - Wikipedia

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    The Aurora Subdivision is mostly single track with sidings between Aurora to Plum River, south of Savanna, with the exception of double track from Steward through Rochelle to Flagg Center. At Plum River, it is double track up until it crosses the Wisconsin River near Wyalusing State Park in Wisconsin, where it becomes single track again.