Noskosteve wrote:
On Jul 13, 5:44 am, Bill wrote:
... I used to swim in it and in 1954 I could watch the
steam engines hauling the daytime commuters to Chicago on the far side
of the lake.
Times change.
Bill Baka

Hmmm. Wonder where that rail line could have been. None near Wonder
lake now.
Perhaps it was McCullom Lake you mentioned - there *is* a rail line
near it.

73, Steve, K9DCI

It was McCullom lake, about 8 houses to the right of mine down the road.
My grandparents lived about 6 houses to the left, so it was ideal for
me as a young child. I once hiked through the corn fields (now condo
fields) to downtown McHenry and was about 100 feet from a steamer
spinning those huge wheels on startup. That was something I will never
forget, just the raw power and mechanical stuff up close.
That, to me, was American life. I also got into early morning television
DX'ing at about 5:00 A.M. turning the rabbit ears and seeing what I
could get. I got Grand Rapids, Mich once and Racine's test pattern once
and a few more buried in the snow. At any rate I was hooked on radio and
television stuff.

Bill Baka