Railroads

There was an era when Illinois had a method of transportation unlike any before or after it. It was the electric railroad and there's a vintage video showing what this railroad was like in action.

Trains and Christmas just seem to go hand in hand. A train track around the tree was a part of almost every home when I was a kid growing up. I remember my uncle Gene taking up his entire finished basement with four 4x8 sheets of plywood for the base if his train layout...