A lot of very nice people have helped me with this site by offering their photos, ideas, and criticism. I wish to thank them all here. Without kind folks like you, this website would be very trite indeed.
My thanks to you all!
William Franckey - Historian, Railroader, and "Executive Producer"
Darren Ferreter - Fellow Galesburg obsessionist and advisor
Gerald Peterson - Distributor and collector of depot photographs
Dick Tinder - Fellow "foamer", photographer, and webmaster
Harry Grossman a.k.a. "Uncle Harry"- Lifelong Galesburg resident, but likes trains anyways!
Carley Robison - Special collections librarian at Knox College: a supportive soul!
B. Budapest - Scholar, balladeer, grillmaster, WOKmaster, pontoonist, and good friend
Ann Selleck - Poor woman who has to put up with it all! Not very successful at removing husband from computer!
John Schilling - Bandwidth King and really good at "teaching Torg to use computer"
Matt Phalen - Local railfan and photo contributor
Archie Haydens - Adair and Table Grove depot expert
Tom Smith - Provider of wonderful shots of Gburg!
Walter "Lenny" Ohrnell - Former operator in Monmouth, Kirkwood, Biggsville, (Gulfport during the 65 flood) Burlington and West Burlington. He also worked various locations West on the mainline and branch lines North and South. He also worked as a fireman in Galesburg and was the Agent for the Burlington Refrigerator Express Company at Burlington from 1/69 until 3/77.
Terry Spirek - A Galesburg, and CB&Q fan/modeler for several years. Provider of photos and information.
Jerry Krueger - Another kind soul with pictures of Galesburg!
Tom Barret - worked as a hostler, when they were still called hostlers, at Galesburg during the early to mid 1970s. He still serves as a railroader today.
Ralph W. Brown Jr. - Galesburg resident, budding historian, and owner of some nice Galesburg photographs (although the ones of the Q depot being torn down bring a tear to my eye)
Ken Thompson - Yates City consultant and modeler
Don Hitchcock - A former student of Monmouth College who likes trains AND had a camera.
Ron Hatch - "World famous" Galesburg railroad artist, mentor, innkeeper, and advisor.
Bill Hayward - Burlington fan and Neponset advisor.
Harold Zeihr - Lifelong area resident and photographer. He has been a good friend and advisor.
Joseph C. - A young photo contributor and friendly emailer.
Doug Harding - Graciously provided info on Nemo.
Jim David - Educated me on Kewanee.
Larry Lock/et. al. - Curator of the Kewanee Historical Society Museum
A special thank you to all the unknown photographers from all years past whose photos you see on this site. Because of your efforts, we have all benefitted!