Springfield, Ohio

Old Factory

The Mankato to Aurora train heads out of Springfield going at a slow pace. Don't believe I've seen this angle before, at the compost site if you're curious.

Rail Haven Inn,

Rt.66 Springfield Missouri

Nikon D7200

Springfield Oregon, along the Middle Fork Path.

2 shot overlay of the severe storm on 4/15/13

Bunch of mailboxes in Springfield, Ohio.

Display in a Springfield, Missouri flea market

Springfield, Ohio

Contax G1

Bolton

Houses near downtown.

So, I was browsing IMFDB on Saturday morning, looking for something to build and this caught my eye. This thing has the biggest code of anything I've built yet, 1.42 MB, topping the 1.38 MB SIG P229 and the 1.02 MB USP.

I'm worried the color I picked for the stainless steel might be a bit too green, but I noticed it after it was too late to recolor everything. Thoughts?

There's another pic in my stream showing some of the moving parts.

Oh, and please view it at full size.

Reference photo: www.imfdb.org/w/images/2/27/SpringfieldM1911SSChampion.jpg

Two "classics" for the price one one.

Recorded at the ATHS Convention and Truck Show, Illinois State Fairgrounds, Springfield, IL

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Don’t know much about John Deere tractors. All I know is; The John Deere model 430 was available in row-crop , high-crop, standard, utility, and crawler versions.

They were manufactured by the John Deere Company out of Dubuque, Iowa from 1958 to 1960. The 430 model was powered by a two-cylinder 30 Series engine available as a 1.9L 2-cyl gasoline and as a 1.9L “all-fuel” model and as a 1.9L LP gas model. The engine was liquid-cooled with a total displacement of 113 ci with a Bore/Stroke of 4.25x4.00 inches with total HP of 31.5hp for the 430 model.

…………..and oh yeah, one more thing. They were painted green with yellow trim. How this particular John Deere tractor that’s shown in the picture was painted all yellow is anyone’s guess………… (don’t ask me any more questions - I don’t know).

Hope ya'all enjoy..................

St. Elizabeth's Anglican Church in Springfield, PEI, Canada.

CSX 236, CSX 883 and a sting of loaded hoppers sit parked on the "back door" track to Springfield Yard. This power and hopper train went up to Mechanicsburg a week earlier for loading. Due to a derailment south of Jeffersonville the train was split and parked in Springfield Yard for the night.

As light fades behind an approaching cold front, BNSF 9570 rolls east through downtown Springfield, OH, leading NS 305 towards its next stop at Columbus, OH.

Steam powered roller built by the Buffalo-Springfield Roller Company of Springfield, Ohio. Shop No (serial) 11523 is stamped on the name plate.

John A. Pitts produced Buffalo brand threshers in Buffalo, New York, in 1851; his firm was known as Pitts & Brayley when Pitts died in 1859. Portable steam engines were added in 1860, and by 1866, the firm had been renamed Brayley & Pitts Works, named for John B. Pitts and James Brayley, John A.’s son and son-in-law respectively. Pitts Agricultural Works was incorporated, also in Buffalo, in 1877, and the firm was called Buffalo Pitts Company by 1897.

The Buffalo Pitts name had been used since at least 1892, when the Buffalo Pitts Niagara Road Roller steam roller (three-wheeled roller) was in production. Roller production was assigned to a subsidiary, Buffalo Steam Roller Company, by 1901. Buffalo Steam Roller merged with Kelly-Springfield Road Roller Company in 1916 to form The Buffalo-Springfield Roller Company. Buffalo Pitts ceased operations in 1935.

I photographed this Buffalo-Springfield roller at the Museum of Transportation near St. Louis, Mo.

Springfield, MO 2008

Athearn

Springfield, Missouri

Green County

Beneath the glow of the Pillsbury elevator at Springfield, Illinois, Chicago and Illinois Midland EMD RS1325 No. 30 and SW1200 No. 20 rest near the railroad’s shop in the twilight of a March 1984 day. Simply put, a RS1325 is a end-cab switcher on a longer frame with a GP20-style nose and Flexicoil trucks. C&IM had the only two built and they still operate today on home trackage for Illinois & Midland Railroad.

Sometimes the railroad's woes are the railfan's wins...and that was the case for the five of us on this day!

P40DC 6711 leads CTrail train 6455 southbound for New Haven running as a double draft. Northbound CTrail train 6402 had broken down just outside its final destination as P40DC 6701 (blt. Nov. 1993 by GE as AMTK 834, acquired in 2005 and rebuilt by Beech Grove in 2019-2020) suffered ground faults and sat disabled on the curve beneath Interstate 91 for over two and a half hours. The two passengers aboard were taken off the train and then management ultimately decided to leave the train until the next northbound showed up. After being rescued by train 6454 the two sets (one with three Mafersa coaches and one with three MBBs) shoves into the station and made a quick turn as this train. This view looks north off the pedestrian bridge right at MP 61 on Amtrak's ex New Haven Springfield Line main. Fortuitous timing allowed for this rolling meet with exactly two hour late Amtrak shuttle train 460 finally arriving after suffering equipment problems of it's own down in New Haven.

Springfield is New England's fourth largest city and has a compact but surprisingly impressive skyline mixed with modern and historic architecture. A close observation will note the 300 ft. Italianate style Campanile clock tower which dates from 1913 and is part of the municipal group collection of city government buildings. Due to a legal height restriction in Springfield imposed by the Massachusetts State Legislature in 1908, the Campanile remained the tallest structure in the city until 1973 when Bay State West (now called Tower Square) was built. Its views would remain largely unobstructed until the construction of Monarch Place in 1987 which is 100 ft taller and dominates this scene.

Springfield, Massachusetts

Sunday January 30, 2022

Established in 1867 as a place to inter only Civil War Confederate soldiers, many of whom died at the Battle of Wilson's Creek. It has since been expanded and opened to all veterans. Springfield National Cemetery now has the interred remains of soldiers from wars dating back to the Revolutionary War. The cemetery lends its name to National Avenue in Springfield, which formerly passed by the cemetery prior to the southern expansion of the city decades ago.

Springfield Missouri

Green County

The late winter sun tries to sneak over onto the north side of the tracks here at the Farmward Co-Op near Springfield where the resident GP10 retains its Illinois Central Gulf number.

An eastbound BNSF intermodal train waits to depart the yard at Springfield, MO on Oct. 17, 1999.

Here is my version of Springfield "Town Hall"

Part of the "Springfield Project" I'm working on for my LUG.

Already done:

KWIK-E-MART

MOE'S Tavern block

Krusty Burger

Springfield Town Hall

First Church of Springfield

Android's Dungeon block

Blocko Store

Noiseland Arcade

Springfield D.M.V.

Flanders House

Springfield Police Station

Luigi's Restaurant

The Java Server

Barney's Bowlarama

Howard's Flowers

My website: 6kyubi6 Lego Creations

Inspired by Pepa Quin's: www.flickr.com/photos/pepa_quin/14305549048/

IC's "Governor's Special" at Springfield, Illinois, Union Station, ready for its return trip to Chicago in March 1971. In less than two months, the train will be history.

I'm not sure if this building is actually still functioning as a hospital. It looks as though it's been/being converted to apartments. It was originally a 'Pauper Lunatic Asylum!' Some of the surrounding buildings, old & new are still in use.

The old decaying homestead on the Springfield property, Oberon, NSW.

Brand new GP38's start to make up their train in Springfield, June of 77.

Buffalo Springfield

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I was excited to photograph at night at an interesting site full of old vintage train cars and locomotives. My joints and muscles felt sore from my second vaccination, but this didn't dampen my enthusiasm. I met up with my friends Ron, Dave, and Ivan on this beautiful warm March night. The site had much more ambient light than anticipated, but we still managed to make it work. The light is from a handheld ProtoMachines LED2 light painting device as well as a full moon and various lights nearby. And yes, as you might guess, the band was named after the Buffalo-Springfield Roller Company, which made rollers to level surfaces for roads and railroad tracks. And yes, as you might guess, I have another photo of this steamroller, and I will undoubtedly name that "Buffalo Springfield Revisited".

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Pentax K-1/15-30mm f/2.8 lens. 27 seconds f/8 ISO 200. March 2021. (4040)

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ghost sign North End of Springfield, MA, can't find any more info on it. Sharpened it a bit to try to make it more legible. Still trying to figure out what is above the word Light - is it a 10?

Kodak Ektar 100 35mm film