1410 Traveling north of Colchester, Illinois on 09-14-2024 I spot this amazing two story wood round barn, just begging to be preserved. Built in 1915 for Clarence Kleinkoph it has a diameter of 56 feet with a shingled hip roof. Added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1982, a haymow encircles three-quarters of the barn at the roofs base, and a ventilator sits tilted at the roof’s peak. 1410
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Here are a couple of Intermountain N-Scale CGW F-units posing on my prop at the RPM meet in Collinsville, Illinois last July. I put Unimate couplers on all my B-units, hence no air hose on the F7B. 1408
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In Reno County, Kansas just northwest of Hutchinson there exists Yaggy with just a few people in a few homes. The Post Office was open from January 1900 to May of 1901 and the Santa Fe and Missouri Pacific hauled freight and passengers through here. The MP line is left today and is owned by the Kansas and Oklahoma Railroad a subsidiary of Watco which owns and or operates 45 short lines in North America and Australia. The EMD SD45 diesel shown here was built in 1968 for the Southern Pacific and was updated to an SD40-2M sometime in the last few years. A sharp paint scheme for this aging EMD beast! 1407
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Rare is the round barn in any state, but rarer yet is the octagon shaped barn. This one I photographed on 09-11-2003 is just south of the Minnesota border outside of Burr Oak, Iowa. Built in the 1880’s and listed on the nation Register of Historic Places it had a modified hip roof and was 50 feet in diameter. I will be visiting some round barns in Eastern Iowa this coming weekend on the annual Iowa Barn Tour. Sadly the Burr Oak barn has now been gone for almost 10 years. Glad I looked to my left on Iowa Highway 52 on that day now 21 years ago. 1405
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About a quarter of a mile north of the tiny hamlet of Eldred, Illinois sits this long abandoned farm. The house, maybe of the Civil War era is constructed of heavy limestone blocks. All the outbuildings including the silo are long gone. The gambrel barn is constructed of ceramic blocks and most likely is around 90 years old. It would be interesting to speculate how many barns preceded it. 1404
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