Homewood Railroad Park - Home of the "Main Line of Mid-America"

Homewood Railroad Park
Home of the Main Line of Mid-America

Homewood's 7th Annual Rail Heritage Days
Saturday, May 15 and Sunday, May 16

Saturday:

7 PM - multi-media slide and digital photography exhibition with nationally known photographers presenting some of their best work at the St. Joseph's School gymnasium

Sunday:

6 AM - Coffee and doughnuts at the Rail Viewing Platform
The Rail Equipment Park located along Park Avenue will be open to visitors Sunday morning and residents can see the newly restored interior of Illinois Central caboose 9426.
9 AM to 3 PM - big train show featuring historical societies, antiques, model train layouts, and railroad related vendors at the Village Hall
Homewood's resident railroad, Canadian National Railways, will have a variety of prototype equipment on display along Harwood Avenue adjacent to the municipal complex and will also provide kids of all ages with extra fun as "Lil" Obie, the CN Safety "Train" gives rides through downtown.

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Apperciating Their Railroad Heritage

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Homewood Rail
Heritage Committee
by the

National Railway
Historical Society

Located in south suburban Chicago, the Village of Homewood is located at the southern end of Illinois Central's Markham yard and is Canadian National's U.S. headquarters.
As the CN/IC's main yard in the Chicago area, Homewood sees freight trains from CN, often with power still painted for predecessor roads Illinois Central, Grand Trunk Western and Wisconsin Central. One might also find locomotives from other recent CN takeovers, including BC Rail, Duluth, Missabe and Iron Range and Bessemer and Lake Erie. There are also Union Pacific run-through freights and Norfolk Southern trains to Decatur exercising trackage rights through Gibson City.
Homewood is fortunate to still have frequent and reliable suburban service from Metra and intercity passenger service from Amtrak -- a legacy from the days of Illinois Central's extensive suburban and mainline passenger operations.
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This page last modified February 6, 2010 by Webmaster. Background by http://www.grsites.com Information and artwork supplied by Paul Burgess of the Homewood Rail Heritage Committee. The words and views expressed on this page are solely those of the Webmaster and may not represent those of the CN Railways, Union Pacific Railroad, National Railway Equipment Company, Hulcher Heavy Equipment Services Company, Amtrak, Metra, and PACE Transit Agency, Arete 3 Architectural Services Company, Inc., the Village of Homewood, the Homewood Rail Heritage Committee or the Blackhawk Chapter of the National Railway Historical Society.