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Old Posted May 7, 2010, 11:19 AM
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Wonderful tour Tt. Love the look of the city, and the hills are a bonus. I really need to schedule another midwest trip one of these days. So many great towns I missed on the last one.

If the vehicles and light poles were 70 years older, this shot could have been taken in the 40s.:



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Love this view, and the bridge.
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That town has an impressive stock old brick gems. Thanks for sharing!
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Oh btw just thought I'd add knowing something on Burlington and railroad traffic, Burlington is on the Chicago-Denver main of the BNSF (part of it branches off in Nebraska near Lincoln and heads for the Wyoming coal fields). About 60-75 trains a day pass through Burlington on that double tracked main with coal, mixed freight and a few double-stacks, Amtrak's California Zephyr passes through west-bound in the early evening and east-bound around noon. Burlington has a cool passenger rail station thats down near the ole river thats being rehabed and should standout once its done (it was once a nice gem with an eating establishment and small shops but it was badly damaged in the 93 flood and I believe had some damge in the June 08 flood as well). Besides BNSF Norfolk Southern has trackage-rights on that main so you can see some NS trains on there as well, an interesting side note: some of the white tank cars that run through have a beer concentrate mix thats loaded at the Miller-Coors brewery in Golden CO enroute to Milwaukee to be packaged as Coors Light (as strange as it sounds Miller MGB is now brewed in Golden CO, also Molson is still part of that huge corp as well).

Just some rail stuff I thought I'd share..

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Wow! What a great job! You were obviously smitten, not that I blame you.
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Wow, that's the best looking 26,000-person town I've ever seen.
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Gots some elements there that remind me of ol' Alton, IL. Very nice!
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Gots some elements there that remind me of ol' Alton, IL. Very nice!
Next time I get around to hitting the road again, I'm going to pick up the river where I left off, and my first stop will be Alton. I have a feeling I'll like that town.
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Old Posted May 8, 2010, 5:25 AM
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You weren't kidding. What was its peak population?
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Awesome, great looking city! Another place to add to my ever-growing list of places to visit should the opportunity arise.
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What great architecture for a small town! Long live Burlington.


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This arson case was big news up this way also.
I always liked the feel of Burlington from my visits there. And, yes, Snake Alley is a must if only for photo ops.
Thanks for the pics.

No! that's why that church is in such a state? Talk about making my blood boil. So what's the situation now? Looks like they're rebuilding it... ?
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Old Posted May 8, 2010, 1:48 PM
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^Yeah, it was one of the towns most cherished historical structures until a psychopath burned it down. He also started another church fire on the same night but it didn't catch. As for rebuilding....it kind of looks like it from the photo posted here but there has been no mention of that in the media.
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Wow, surprisingly great warehouse district. Cool thread.
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those dark brown bulky industrial buildings in the first few shots remind me of New Hampshire...
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Those buildings could have easily been in Manchester, Concord, Salem, or Nashua!

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^--- Yeah, I was just thinking, "wow, some of those first shots could be straight out of Lowell, Haverhill, Taunton . . . Mass cities three, fours times Burlington's size. Pretty impressive!

According to Wikipedia, Burlington's peak population was 32,430 in 1960.
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I live literally an hour west of this little gem, so to see my home grounds show up here is a nice surprise. We have some really interesting towns here in Iowa, and the standard of living can't be beat...except the weather.

Burlington has some very solid architecture downtown from when the combination of river and rails made it a wealthy town in the early 1900s. Ottumwa, ninety miles to the west, is a similar size and feel, although in slightly worse shape.
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