GTW Operation Lifesaver Unit #5856, originally built for the Rock Island, leads the Baldwin local past the former GM&O railroad depot, now refurbished as an art gallery.
IC coal train led by SD-20 #2018 (nee SOU #2505) passes the former GM&O depot in Sparta, IL. This the same station Sidney Poitier arrived and departed in the movie “The Heat of the Night”.
A short Canadian National local works its way past the old Gulf, Mobile & Ohio depot at Sparta on April 25, 2014. The depot is now the Misselhorn Art Gallery. The depot and town of Sparta was the ... (more)