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#398 heads east thru downtown Springfield and past the old Great Western depot back in March of 2012. This is just a weird one-off grab shot that I took while waiting for D31 to get permission out on the mainline and head west to Bluffs.

#398 was pretty much an un-shootable train if it didn't make it to Springfield before noon. I'm not really sure what made me take this shot. I think it might have been a proof-of-concept shot. I do remember not liking it and never trying again, which in hindsight was unfortunate.

With all of the demolition and construction work related to the 10th Street Corridor project, the only thing left in this picture in 2024 is the Great Western depot, which makes this shot interesting in retrospect. The only constant is change but something has to be lost for it to really grab our attention.

NS 8912 - D9-40CW

Capitol Avenue - Springfield, Illinois
March 9, 2012

Bushnell Towers (there were to be two of them), designed by I M Pei

beyond: Elm Street Historic District (NRHP) including the Bushnell Memorial (NRHP)

seen from Travelers Tower
1982 incl ESB _7

film photo possibly by Ivar

The American flag and the flag of the State of Michigan outside Lansing City Hall along Capitol Avenue in Lansing, Michigan.

A Capital Area Transportation Authority (CATA) public bus travels in front of the Michigan State Capitol on Capitol Avenue in Lansing, Michigan.

Located three blocks west of the Illinois State Capitol Building is the Sargent Office Building, home of the Illinois Municipal League (IML). The building is named for A. L. "Lon" Sargent, who served as executive director of the IML from 1943 to 1968, and his son, Steven Sargent, IML executive director from 1968 to 1989.

This beaux-arts style office building was completed in 1912 and, until the early 1930s, was the clubhouse of the Sangamo Club, a private dining city club for business, government and community leaders. The Illinois Municipal League first established offices here in 1935, and has owned the building since the late 1980s.

The Sargent Building is a contributing building within the 2015 Extension of the Central Springfield Historic District listed in the National Register of Historic Places.

UP 8938 South follows Amtrak 319 thru downtown Springfield. This train has some major trail fails going on. Sheesh...

UP 8938 - SD70ACe
NS 9666 - D9-44CW
UP 5335 - ES44AC

Capitol Avenue - Springfield, IL
February 13, 2023

SC-44 Charger 4610 takes in the Springfield skyline as it passes thru downtown.

IDTX 4610 - SC-44 Charger

Springfield, Illinois
February 13, 2023

Chicago-Kansas City train 319 passes over the Capitol Avenue bridge after making its station stop in downtown Springfield, IL.

IDTX 4610 - SC-44 Charger

Springfield, Illinois
February 13, 2023

Autoparts train 181 rolls past the construction work on the 10th Street Corridor project in downtown Springfield as it heads west to Kansas City.

Just as I was taking this photo, NS' Wayside desk alerted 181 to a block of five cars deep in their train with wheels that were "trending hot" when the train passed the Riverton hotbox detector. This type of situation has taken on new significance after the train derailment and fire in East Palestine, OH. Turns out it was just a simple case of sticking brakes that was resolved by a short stop and release of the air brakes at Hazel Dell.

NS 4473 - AC44C6M
NS 4228 - AC44C6M (mid-train DPU)

Capitol Avenue - Springfield, Illinois
February 13, 2023

View of the 10th Street Corridor Project looking south from Capitol Avenue in Springfield, IL.

The graded area on the left will be where the new Norfolk Southern double track mainline will be located. Union Pacific's double track mainline will be on the right along NS' current track alignment. A new signal bridge base can be seen in the distance on the right. This will replace the current NS signals at milepost 415.0.

View of the 10th Street Corridor Project looking northeast from Capitol Avenue in Springfield, IL.

The new building being constructed in the distance is the new bus transfer station for the Springfield Mass Transit District (SMTD). SMTD is already using the completed bus parking area east of the new building for downtown bus transfers.

View of the 10th Street Corridor Project looking northwest from Capitol Avenue in Springfield, IL.

This view shows the old Springfield Journal-Register building and track spur, the Great Western depot, and Sangamon County Building. Many structures on the right side of the photo have been demolished to make way for the new 5 track right-of-way here. The 5th track will be a special passenger train siding located alongside the new Amtrak station. Theoretically, this new station track would allow layovers for dedicated Chicago-Springfield trains, akin to The Loop that ran back in the late 80's and early 90's.

View of the 10th Street Corridor Project looking due north from Capitol Avenue in Springfield, IL.

The vantage point here is approximately dead center between the future NS track alignment on the right and the future UP track alignment on the left. A new Amtrak station will be built west of the UP tracks immediately north of the Sangamon County Building. An enclosed overhead walkway will connect the Amtrak station with the SMTD Bus Transfer station.

Ugh this is a health insurance company headquarters and I shuddered to be here.

I wish an off-center datestone were the worst suffering Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan had the power to inflict upon us!

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In downtown Lansing, Michigan, on April 5th, 2020, at the headquarters of Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan on the west side of South Capitol Avenue, north of West Washtenaw Street.

According to the defunct website Emporis, the building is from 1935 and was remodeled in 1987.

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Capitol Avenue is a new commercial IT/ITes project in Noida Sector 62. In Electronic City sector 62
Noida, Masters Group is launching its first commercial IT ITes project.
www.capitolavenuedeals.com/

Capitol Avenue by Massters Group is one of the pilot project. It comes with adding more to IT/ITES business which covers in an area of 5 acres. It covers all the commercial aspects which also has retail shops, office spaces.
www.noidacommercial.com/maasters-capitol-avenue/

www.noidacommercial.com/maasters-capitol-avenue/

www.wtccbdnoida.co.in/wtc-cbd-noida/

It is little-remarked-upon because it is uncommon that two pedestrians would pass one another in this part of town!, snow or no snow.

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In downtown Lansing, Michigan, on February 5th, 2022, the west side of South Capitol Avenue as viewed from the northwest corner of its intersection with West Hillsdale Street.

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A view of Capitol Avenue looking east from Sixth St. toward the Illinois State Capitol building. From the 1930s through 1960s, views of the State Capitol taken from this intersection were frequently seen on picture postcards of Springfield.

Capitol Ave., Ingleside