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Number 416 leaves a sweeping vista of midwest farmland behind as it! approaches Lebanon from the west behind PT-tendered J-1 no. 5269. Although this train was not scheduled to stop at Lebanon, its wheels were in the grip of a heavy service…

With the caboose markers 69 cars back just about clear of Lebanon, the engineer on manifest no. 95 'widens on her' for the resumption of normal progress westward. 'Her' is L-2 no. 2877, and she was undoubtedly flexing her iron-horse sinews in…

Indianapolis-Chicago local no. 419 - opposite number to the train just pictured - leaves Lebanon behind the 5437, sister to the 5441, In the background here are two landmarks which (if not as obviously as grain elevators) exude a midwestern flavor --…

As the main line of the Indiana Division heads northwestward across Indiana from Indianapolis, the countryside and the towns begin to look progressively more midwestern. The topography levels and the groves of trees get scarcer as the railroad…