Trip to Southern Illinois
Sept. 8-13, 2011
Photos by Dave Ingles
| On the Thursday after Labor Day, Carol and I began a 5 1/2-day driving vacation to deepest southern Illinois, centered around the wedding of the son of my 52-year friend Dick Wallin. Jeff Wallin married Valerie Brooks on Sat., 9/10/11, at his 12-acre "ranch" in the woods west of Cobden, Ill., south of Carbondale. We left on Thursday because I did not want to drive the 450 miles in one day. (Illinois is a LONG state.) We drove to Champaign for overnight, then Friday on down to Carbondale, where we stayed. On Saturday morning and midday, we drove from Carbondale to Shawneetown, Ill., on the Ohio River, and back. On Sunday, we headed south from Carbondale to Cairo, Illinois' southernmost town, then northwest to Kaskaskia, its first capital, accessible only from Missouri, and then east to Mt. Vernon, Ill., for the night. On Monday and Tuesday, we wandered through counties and towns in east-south-central Illinois where we either had barely visited or hadn't been to in decades, adding to the photo files of courthouses and railroad stations. We overnighted Monday in Effingham. Trains were not the focus of these travels, with a couple of exceptions, but when we saw one, we would photograph it. (One exception was a chase on the Evansville Western Railway on Monday, pictured below) Only a smattering of non-rail photos are presented in these files. |
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