Editing Galesburg, Illinois (section)

==Festivals==
Galesburg is the home of the Railroad Days festival, held on the fourth weekend of June.<ref name=Schedule>{{cite web|url=http://www.galesburgrailroaddays.org/schedule/index.html|title=Schedule for 2010|website=galesburgrailroaddays.org|access-date=2 May 2018|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100627165455/http://www.galesburgrailroaddays.org/schedule/index.html|archive-date=27 June 2010}}</ref> The festival began in 1977 as an open house to the public from the then Burlington Northern. Burlington Northern gave train car tours of their yards. The city started having street fairs to draw more people to town. In 1981, the Galesburg Railroad Museum was founded and opened during Railroad Days. For a while, the city and the railroad worked together on the celebrations. In 2002, the railroad backed out of the festival and there were no yard tours. In 2003 the city worked with local groups to revamp the festival and the Galesburg Railroad Museum resumed bus tours of the yards. The Galesburg Railroad Museum has continued to provide tours of the yards since then. In 2010, the Galesburg Railroad Museum started offering a VIP tour of the yards, in which a select group of riders are allowed in the Hump Towers and Diesel Shop to see the BNSF at work. During the festival, one of the largest [[model railroad]] train shows and layouts in the [[U.S. Midwest]] happens at the new Galesburg High School Fieldhouse.<ref name=Schedule />

On Labor Day weekend, Galesburg hosts the [[Stearman Aircraft|Stearman]] Fly in.<ref>{{cite web |title=National Stearman Fly-In – Official Website |url=http://www.stearmanflyin.com/ |access-date=2 May 2018 |website=www.stearmanflyin.com}}</ref> Also in September are the Great Cardboard Boat Regatta and the Annual Rubber Duck Race, at Lake Storey.<ref>{{cite web |title=Great Cardboard Boat Regatta-Canceled – Galesburg, IL – Sep 10, 2016 |url=http://www.eventcrazy.com/Galesburg-IL/events/details/23715-Great-Cardboard-Boat-Regatta |access-date=2 May 2018 |website=www.eventcrazy.com}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Galesburg Public Schools Foundation – Annual_Rubber_Duck |url=http://www.gburgpsf.org/Annual_Rubber_Duck.php |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101115020633/http://www.gburgpsf.org/Annual_Rubber_Duck.php |archive-date=2010-11-15 |access-date=2010-10-23}}</ref> On the third weekend of August, a Civil War and pre-1840s rendezvous is held at Lake Storey Park.