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By Angela Cotey | October 10, 2023

| Last updated on October 16, 2023


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Chicago & Illinois Midland American-type 4-4-0 No. 500

Chicago & Illinois Midland American-type 4-4-0 No. 500 hustles a two-car passenger train north under Illinois Route 97 near Petersburg in May 1952. Once ubiquitous, the diminutive locomotive was a real anachronism by mid-century.
Photo by Edward Theisinger

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