Actual start date: June 25, 2020
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GOOD NEWS! Galesburg is sponsored through March, 2024. If you’d like to help sponsor, you can donate here via SuperChat (dollar icon) or at Cost is $300/month or $3,000/year. Every little bit helps! Thank you!
Special thanks to the Discovery Depot Children’s Museum of Galesburg for hosting the cameras! Find out about everything they have to offer for kids: /
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ABOUT THIS FEED:
Galesburg is on the Chicago Division/Ottumwa, Mendota & Brookfield Subdivisions. Amtrak trains that pass through include the California Zephyr, Southwest Chief, Carl Sandburg, and Illinois Zephyr.
VRF camera is located at MP 162.327
When’s the next train? Yeah, we get this a lot. You can figure out the next Amtrak passenger train with this handy link: l
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