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Central Illinois Rails Color Pictorial 1950s-1970s by Wallin & Ingles Hard Cover
Central Illinois Rails Color Pictorial 1950s-1970s by RR Dick Wallin & J David Ingles
Hard Cover
144 pages
Copyright 2011
CONTENTS
Amtrak8
Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe 14
Baltimore & Ohio19
Chicago & Eastern Illinois 24
Chicago & Illinois Midland 26
Chicago & North Western 34
Chicago, Burlington & Quincy37
Gulf, Mobile & Ohio 42
Passenger Specials 56
Campaign Trains 60
Illinois Central 64
Springfield's Towers 80
Illinois Central Gulf 84
Illinois Terminal 90
Minneapolis & St. Louis 100
New York Central / Peoria & Eastern 104
Nickel Plate Road 109
Pennsylvania Railroad 112
Peoria & Pekin Union114
Rock Island 116
Toledo, Peoria & Western 122
Wabash / Norfolk & Western 124
Detours 142
Central Illinois Rails - Map .... Back Endsheet
The inspiration for this volume was the desire to showcase the photographic talents of the late Walter A. Peters of Springfield, Illinois, a longtime friend of the authors. Walt was a prolific chronicler of the railroads in Illinois' heartland from the 1930s until his unexpected death in 1982, from a heart attack, at age 71. Walt came from a railroad family. His father was a baggageman on the Cincinnati, Indianapolis & Western (later Baltimore & Ohio), so Walt got an occasional ride with his father, which whetted his interest in trains. Walt worked briefly as a clerk for the Illinois Terminal Railroad, but his true career was in the personnel department of the Springfield Post Office.
A quiet, unassuming man, Walt seemed to have a knack for knowing what would be coming down the track, and when and where. Rather than "shoot and run," as so many of us do, Walt often would engage railroaders in conversation and then cultivate the friendships of many whom he met. Over the years, this gained him the bonus of an occasional locomotive cab ride. Walt was not one to bombard magazines and publishers with his photos, so despite having a few appear in TRAINS Magazine over the years, his photos were not often published, a shortcoming which this volume is intended to address.
I became acquainted with Walt in the early 1950s, and while I don't recall the exact circumstances, likely it was through railfan contacts in the St. Louis area where I grew up. After I enrolled at Millikin University in Decatur, Illinois, in 1955, my visits with Walt became frequent. If I was thinking of going to Springfield, his response was often "as long as you're coming, plan on staying for dinner." Walt and his lovely wife Margaret were gracious hosts, and after I settled in Springfield in 1961, and married my wife Lorine there in 1963, Walt and Margaret became like family to us, as we had both lost our own parents. When Walt died, we truly felt it as a personal loss. Margaret became a regular part of our lives after Walt's passing, even going on our family vacations. She passed away in 2009 at age 99.
I met co-author Dave Ingles in 1959 in Wyoming, of all places, and the friendship now has lasted well over a half century. I attended summer school at the University of Colorado in Boulder, and became acquainted with noted railroad artist Howard Fogg. For railfans it was a busy summer, as Union Pacific had just returned its Big Boys and Challengers to service, and Cheyenne was only an hour or so away. The interlude turned out to be UP's last regular revenue steam operation.
In July I learned of an upcoming invitation-only charter trip by Union Pacific employee Jim Ehernberger on the Colorado & Southern, from Cheyenne to Guernsey, Wyoming, using 2-10-2 No. 900, and Fogg asked me if I would be going. I replied, "Well, I haven't been invited and I don't have the $20 fare." His reply was typical Howard-he said he was inviting me and would cover my fare. On board, I overheard a rider say he was from Detroit, so I asked him if Grand Trunk Western was still running steam (it was). We exchanged names and addresses-he was Dave Ingles.
We began corresponding and trading slides by mail, and met for a weekend of railfanning in Decatur and St. Louis in December 1960. In February 1962, Dave enrolled in MacMurray College in Jacksonville, 35 miles west of Springfield, so we made many railfan photo trips together. In late 1966, a year after his graduation, Dave returned to central Illinois to work at the Jacksonville Journal-Courier newspaper, soon moving to the Illinois State Journal in Springfield, where he met his future wife, Carol. Dave and I, often joined by Walt Peters, resumed making railfan photography trips until May 1971, when Dave moved to Wisconsin to become assistant editor of TRAINS Magazine, a career that lasted until 2007. But Dave and Carol would come back for visits frequently, and he and I, and sometimes Walt, would be back out taking train pictures.
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