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Steve Shutt

Steve Shutt, a railfan friend of mine passed away on August 7th, 2013. He was a huge fan of local history and railroads and I have some of his collection here for you to view. He was a member of the LSBC model railroad club. His last railfan outing with the club was at Union Illinois Railway Museum on July 28th, 2013. I was with him and he enjoyed the time at the museum very much. I learned a lot about history from Steve and he was truly a tremendous source of information from maps to photos of the area. I was glad I spent time scanning his slides and negatives and putting them on discs for him and for archival use.

In the model RR club Steve was well known for his "Shutt Speed" which was running his trains as fast as they could possibly go. It was like having a throttle pack that went from 10mph -100mph and then there was "Shutt Speed" beyond.

Steve also had a big part in coordinating efforts to get the Steam Engine CBQ 4978 moved from Ottawa to Mendota. A few pictures of Steve near 4978 during the move of the locomotive are seen on this page too.

I will really miss Steve. Some of the photos below are from Bloomington IL where he did a lot of railroad watching and also lived in the area. I also have some of his articles you can read below among the photos.

Milwaukee Road in Mendota IL