The Railroad Station
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Washington Il 61571
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THIS SITE IS UNDER CONSTRUCTION. PLEASE CHECK BACK WITH US SOON FOR
SOME GREAT PHOTOS OF RAILROADS
.FROM ITS CONCEPTION IN THE 1840'S TO IT'S DEMISE IN THE LATE 1970'S TRAVEL BY RAILROAD WAS THE ONLY WAY TO GO.
WITH THE TRANSCONTINENTAL CONNECTION IN 1869 THE U.S. SOON HAD TRAVEL FROM EAST TO WEST. IN TIME RAILROAD STATIONS
SOON SPRUNG UP ACROSS THE COUNTRY FROM LARGE MASSIVE STRUCTORS IN THE LARGE CITIES TO THE SMALL ONE ROOM STRUCTORS
IN THE COUNTRY. THEY ALL SERVED THE SAME PURPOSE AS A TERMINAL FOR THE RAILROAD AND RAIL TRAVEL. HERE PEOPLE CAME AND WENT
HERE THE NEWS FROM THE OUTSIDE CAME IN AND LEFT. PRODUCE CAME AND WENT. TODAY THE RAILROAD STATIONS ARE ALL GONE.
RETURN WITH US TO A TIME WHEN LIFE WAS SIMPLE, TRAVEL WAS AT A SLOWER PACE AND YOU NEVER LOCKED YOUR DOORS.
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