Geneva Station new hours
Weekdays 5am to 9pm
Contact info for
Rail Fans, TOAST,
Iron Horse Tours & Talks
& Station Reimagined
email: gastorybook@gmail.com
tele: 815/483-7494
Call 815/483-7494 for info.
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Contents
Geneva Passenger News
Metra Board News
Amtrak News & Trips
Local & Western Rail History
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Local engineer, conductors tell
their stories
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Station
Reimagined
Tired of Track Anxiety
in La Fox?
Geneva Station Wish List and
Station
Reimagined
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and La Fox Station News
Please email Rusty If you
don't see your name,
DAVE MEX
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Dave,
I always enjoy conversing with persons like yourself who are knowledgeable about history. Wish we had more time to talk about Tucson/Marana.
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Hope you will enjoy the slices of history based on our conversation.
Email me if you wish more. I happily share the amazing stories between 1830 and 1930, plus my Arizona stories.
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Hope you receive good medical news.
Rusty
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email: GAstorybook@gmail.com
First 18 hole golf course in U.S.
Although Downers Grove, a Chicago suburb technically was the first 18 hole golf course in the U.S., the Chicago Golf Club in Wheaton (13 miles north of Downers Grove) is given that title.
Robert Todd Lincoln, Pres. Lincoln's oldest son, became an avid golfer later in life. His wife wished he had not taken up golf. On a January snowy day in 1906, Robert wish that he hadn't played on that day.
Robert played golf well into his 70's in Vermont with a host of dignitaries.
William Van Horne, the son of the first mayor of my hometown Joliet, rose to become Canada's businessmen of the century and knighted by Queen Victoria for constructing Canada's trans-rr.
Although I graduated from Arizona State, I chose to retire in Tucson. Living at the base of "A Mountain", I had easy access to urban mountain hiking, the University of Arizona, and the train station.
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I became enamored with the characters behind Arizona railroads.
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