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4-8-2 #2900 at Mitchell, IL
Left side view
4-4-0 LS&MS #72 at Chicago, IL
"Le Grand Lockwood" built by Swinburg in 1853, at 23rd St.
2-6-0 II&I #34 at Streater, IL
Indiana, Illinois & Iowa R.R.
2-8-0 LEA&W #15 at Streater, IL
Lake Erie, Alliance & Wheeling R.R.
4-4-0 CCC&StL #7071 at Urbana, IL
On turntable
4-8-4 #5500 at Englewood, IL
Note, Caprotti valves
L-2 and IC 4-8-2 share space near the roundhouse
Kankakee, the western outpost of the Indiana Division, contributes a far smaller portion of the mainline traffic than its position as a terminal and interchange point would seem to indicate, A great deal of the business, including U.S. Steel coal in…
Train first 41
The Illinois Division headquarters are, very fittingly, located in the depot at Mattoon. This windswept town of 17,500 population, smack in the middle on the central Illinois prairie, is at near dead-center on the main line between Indianapolis and…
Extra south taking coal
The so-called 'Cairo' line of the Big Four, running for 260 miles from Danville to Cairo, has stagnated badly in the years since World War II. Its greatest glory, of course, was during the seven month period in 1943 when the 'Big Inch' pipeline…
Train no. CA-5 headed for Cairo
The 2825 pulls past the depot at Mount Carmel, headed into the yard with train CA-5 southbound. This symbol, with variations, covers all manifest services from Chicago to Cairo, which amount to very little - a train a day for the Indiana Division at…