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The longest railroad in the world in 1856, Illinois Central rails crossed Illinois, and eventually connected Chicago and Lake Michigan to New Orleans and the Gulf of Mexico. Locomotives and trains featured here range from a Mikado (2-8-2) built by Baldwin in 1911, and a Mountain-type 4-8-2 built by the Central’s own shops, to the City of New Orleans departing Chicago in 1960, the streamlined Green Diamond in 1968, and more. Celebrate the “Mainline of Mid-America.”

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Locomotives featured in this edition include:
• Illinois Central 2119, a Mikado (2-8-2), is leading a freight into Kankakee, IL on January 23, 1956
• Illinois Central 2500 is moving through the yard at Centralia, IL on December 4, 1956. Illinois Central owned 56 of these Mountain type (4-8-2) locomotives, built by the Paducah Shops in 1937 through 1952
• Illinois Central 4015 and 4001 (E-7A leads—E6A trails; both are EMD locomotives) are leading Train 14, the eastbound Land O’ Corn, making a station stop at Broadview, IL on April 17, 1962
• Illinois Central 1447, a Mikado (2-8-2), is getting its feet wet during the great Mississippi River flood in April 1950
• Illinois Central 2809, a ponderous Santa Fe (2-10-2) type, complete with an auxiliary water car, is at Centralia, Illinois on April 25, 1957.
• It is June 1960 at Central Station, Chicago, IL, and 4025 is preparing to head south with Train 1, the City of New Orleans, scheduled to depart at 7:50 a.m. The two units assigned to this train are 4025, an E-8A, and an accompanying E-8B, both EMD locomotives
• Illinois Central 4001 is on Train 21, the southbound Green Diamond at the Springfield, IL depot in July 1968. 4001 is an EMD E-6A. The Green Diamond went into service in 1936 as a daily Chicago to St. Louis, MO train. This would be Illinois Central’s first streamlined train.
• Illinois Central 1350A and 1350B, a Class TR1A and TR1B, are switching at Madison, IL on July 18, 1957
• IC steam on display at the roundhouse in Central City, KY on October 27, 1957 are locomotives 1658, 1518, 1572, all 2-8-2 Mikados, 2721, a 2-10-2, and 1528, another Mikado
• Illinois Central 2304, a 4-6-2-Pacific, is leading a local freight at Flanagan, IL on October 10, 1957
• Illinois Central 3502, a 0-8-0 switcher, one of 70 built by Baldwin Locomotive Works and Lima Locomotive Works between 1921 and 1929
• Illinois Central 2550, a Mountain (4-8-2) built by the Paducah Shops in 1941

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Chartered in 1849, the Milwaukee Road eventually extended its tracks across the northern tier of the United States to the Pacific Ocean. Noted for its innovative electric motive power and passenger service, the line’s successes were overshadowed by weak management and strong competition. By Spring 1982, all Milwaukee lines from the West Coast to Minnesota had been abandoned, and in 1986 remaining Midwest lines were absorbed into the Soo Line. Today CP Rail operates what remains.

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Locomotives and named trains featured in this edition include:
• Milwaukee Road 100 is on the point of the northbound Morning Hiawatha ready to leave Milwaukee for Minneapolis, MN by way of Portage and La Crosse on September 28, 1941. This Class F-7 locomotive was built by the American Locomotive Company in August 1938
• Most railroads had an oddball piece of motive power or two: here is the Milwaukee Road entry. It is running light
through the yard at Milwaukee on August 25, 1955. This is 5900, a streamlined motorcar, referred to as the Bulldog
• Milwaukee Road Bi-polar Motor E-3 is the power for the Olympian Hiawatha leaving Seattle, WA for Tacoma on July 16, 1951.
• Milwaukee Road 572, a six-axle RSD-5 built in 1953 by the American Locomotive Company, in concert with two other Alcos, (both RSC-3s: 594 and 596), are on a local freight at Sparta, WI on April 8, 1972
• Milwaukee Road 102, a streamlined Baltic (Milwaukee referred to their 4-6-4’s as Baltics instead
of Hudsons), an F-7 Class locomotive, is leading the Northbound Chippewa at Rondout, IL on September 19, 1948.
• Motors E-23B and E-23C on Train #16, the eastbound Olympian Hiawatha, at Tacoma, WA on May 4, 1958.
• Milwaukee Road E-73 and E-79 are on an incredibly long eastbound work train at Donald, MT, 17 miles east of Butte on July 4, 1973
• Milwaukee Road Electric Switcher E-82 has the pans up and is working at Deer Lodge, MT in
August 1965
• Milwaukee Road 548 is leading a transfer freight through St. Paul, MN on July 25, 1971. The first three units in this seven-unit consist are Fairbanks-Morse H16-66 “baby trainmasters”, followed by an F7A-F7B-GP9 and an SD24 (all EMD power)
• Milwaukee Road 17B, an EMD E7A, a 2,000-horsepower unit, is at Council Bluffs, IA on October 29, 1955
• Milwaukee Road 1060, a Class B-4 Ten-Wheeler built by the Baldwin Locomotive Works in 1902, is on a local freight at Sauk Prairie, WI in September 1953
• Milwaukee Road 93C is leading Train #101, the Afternoon Hiawatha out of Chicago’s Union Station
at 1:02PM on June 1, 1953

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Cross the continent and share the drama of “high iron” on Class I railroads like BNSF and CSX, KCS, and UP. High-stepping regionals like East Penn, Pend Oreille Valley and Delaware & Hudson are featured, too, while classic locomotive 148 (4-6-2) rolls on U.S. Sugar rails, and the Pere Marquette (2-8-4) steams for the North Pole. Railroading! includes descriptive commentary about the featured railroads, rolling stock, and 24 full-color photographs. All aboard!

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Locomotives and railroads featured in this edition include:
• Splashed with momentary sunlight, a westbound BNSF grain train is crossing the causeway separating Frog Pond from the Clark Fork between mileposts 56 and 57 at Trout Creek. The train is led by General Electric ET44C4 locomotive 3278, built in 2020, along with 9362, an older EMD SD70ACe, built in 2006.
• During a Montana snowstorm on February 6, 2021, BNSF GE ET44C4 No. 3943 leads an eastbound unit oil train across the Clark Fork on Bridge 57 west of Trout Creek.
• As clouds from a recent storm dissipate, the silence in the South Boulder Creek Valley is broken by a quartet of ex-Southern Pacific General Electric AC4400CW locomotives hauling an empty unit coal train west through the snow-covered trees at Crescent.
• A winter tradition since 1940, the Ski Train carried skiers 56 miles from downtown Denver, Colo. climbing 4,000 feet through the mountains of the Front Range to Winter Park Resort.
• The Rocky Mountains and Pike’s Peak fade into the horizon as north-bound BNSF train H-SLADEN1-10 journeys up the Joint Line at Greenland, Colo. The train is led by engine 6968, a General Electric ES44C4, as it moves freight between Slaton, Tex. and Denver, Colo.
• A block of FedEx trailers on flat cars is on the head pin of BNSF train number B-DENSBD4-10 as it rolls into Colorado Springs, Colo. Led by engines 5119 and 7389, this intermodal train is carrying a string of trailers from Denver, Colo. to San Bernardino, Calif.
• CSX Transportation painted its executive train or office car special into the heritage colors of the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad during 2021. Making the debut run with three EMD F40PH-2s, the CSXT P001-14 is seen rolling through Ashland, Ky., badged as CSX 1.
• Leading intermodal train Q01604, 3194, a General Electric ES44AC, is rolling through Viaduct Junction in Cumberland, Md. on July 5, 2021, as it passes engine 9999, an EMD FP40PH, paused on the Mountain Subdivision connector.
• Four DL Alcos are seen leading a southbound empty hopper train at Olyphant, Penn., en route from Carbondale to Scranton on former D&H trackage.
• Engine 1802, an Alco RS11 built for the Nickel Plate Road in 1959, leads a passenger charter of the Medina Railroad Museum at Medina, N.Y.
• Reunion of the past with the present, locomotive 148, a 4-6-2 Pacific, took an initial post-restoration test run in 2020, a century after it was built at Alco’s Richmond Works.
• Among the company’s oldest locomotives are former Illinois Central Gulf GP11s, one of which is seen leading an SCXF cane train across the Caloosahatchee Canal at Moore Haven, Fla.
• A Reading Blue Mountain and Northern (RBMN) fall foliage passenger special rolls southbound over the former Central Railroad of New Jersey’s Hometown High Bridge in Hometown, Penn, on October 9, 2021. The train is led by RBMN 270, an EMD F9a and RBMN 275, an EMD F7b unit, with assistance from engine 5019, an EMD SD50-2.
• Pennsylvania’s East Penn Railroad (ESPN) engine 2801, an EMD GP38-2, wears an attractive blue and yellow paint scheme as the shortline consist enters Norfolk Southern’s Harrisburg Line at Sinking Spring, Penn.
• Crossing the muddy Chemung River in Elmira, N.Y., Amtrak engine 108 leads special train 926 (Norfolk Southern number 099-24) eastbound on the Norfolk Southern’s Southern Tier Line.
• Amtrak’s Midwest Service Saluki train is passing through Neoga, Ill. on August 2, led by engine 4608, a Siemens-built Charger SC-44, hauling a consist of Superliner cars.
• Union Pacific tested Electro-Motive Diesel’s (EMD) SD70ACe locomotives on the railroad’s former Rio Grande Moffat Tunnel Subdivision west of Denver, Colo. on August 26, 2013.
• Union Pacific MDVRO (Denver to Salt Lake City manifest freight) emerges from Tunnel 18, just east of Crescent, Colo., on a sunny afternoon in May 2001.
• On the morning of October 1, 2021, POVA’s Sandpoint turn rolls by milepost 1409 between Laclede and Dover, Idaho on the way to the BNSF interchange at Sandpoint.
• On September 27, 2021, the sky is still leaden with morning clouds as STMA’s Plummer turn rumbles over Pedee Creek trestle at Pedee, Idaho.
BurkholderKansas City Southern (KCS) engine 4103 will need all 4,300 hp generated by this EMD SD70Ace to haul this loaded grain train up the grade approaching Rich Mountain, Ark., and on the continuing climb through the Ozark Mountains heading for Mexico.
• A KCS inspection special (B-LRKC-03) rolls through DeSoto Parrish, La. just before sunset on May 4, 2021.
• Charging down the line, Steam Railroading Institute’s (SRI) Pere Marquette 1225 Berkshire-type (2-8-4) hauls an evening North Pole Express excursion from Owosso to Ashely, Mi.,
• Locomotive 1225 was built in 1941 by the Lima Locomotive Works for the Pere Marquette Railway and hauled fast freight between cities in the Midwest for a decade. The engine was set aside in 1951, but was saved when a Michigan State University trustee saw its value for engineering students.

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Chartered just before the Civil War, during the next three decades the tracks of the Atchison Topeka and Santa Fe reached from Chicago to Los Angeles. Santa Fe Railway trains provided the country’s most appealing passenger service and for shippers, the most innovative intermodal freight service in America. Santa Fe features classic steam and diesel locomotives working on the ATSF.

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Locomotives and trains featured in this edition include:
• Santa Fe 1510 and 1536 are both Class S-4s, built by the American Locomotive Company between July 1951 and July 1953. They are switching at Fullerton, CA on December 22, 1972.
• Santa Fe 3780, a 3775 Class Northern (4-8-4), one of ten locomotives built by the Baldwin Locomotive Works in 1941, is running as an eastbound Abo Canyon, NM point helper three miles west of Abo in July 1957.
• Santa Fe 100 and 101, two EMD FP-45s, are on the point of the Super Chief—El Capitan at Raton, NM in March 1968. Nine of these 3,600-horsepower units were built for the Santa Fe in 1967.
• Led by Santa Fe 5333, an EMD SD-45, the dynamic brakes are singing as the ten-unit power consist is northbound, coming off the worst of the Tehachapi Grade as it starts around the horseshoe curve at Caliente, CA on September 10, 1988.
• Santa Fe 312C is on the point of Train #1, the San Francisco Chief leaving Chicago, IL in September 1970. This train was an all-lightweight train, complete with the services afforded to extra-fare passengers.
• Santa Fe 5020, a 5011 Class Texas Type 2-10-4, is at the engine terminal in Sandusky, OH on June 4, 1956.
• Santa Fe 50, a Class DL-109, sits at Kansas City, KS on July 18, 1959. Santa Fe purchased an A and a B set; it was fortunate for them that they didn’t purchase any more.
• It is August 27, 1958; Santa Fe 80, an E8m, is the power for the Chief connection train at Amarillo, TX, where this train being made up.
• Santa Fe 5251, an SDF40-2, is leading an eastbound intermodal train, roaring out of Tunnel #17 on the approach to Cable, CA. It is 10:09 a.m. on September 15, 1988. In about four more miles, 5251 will reach Tehachapi Summit, and it will be all downhill for a while.
• Santa Fe 3679, a 3669 Class GP39-2 with SPSF merger colors, leads another GP39-2, a GP-30, a GP35, another GP30, and another GP35, on a westbound freight at Rowen, CA on the north side of Tehachapi Pass on October 17, 1988.
• Santa Fe 175A is part of a 5,400-horsepower freight (four EMD FTs, two A Units, and two B Units) near Holliday, KS on November 27, 1946. This is westbound Freight #39.
• Santa Fe 104 leads three other freshly painted SDFP45s on an eastbound double stack train at Lugo, CA on December 18, 1984. Santa Fe purchased nine FP-45s from EMD in 1967 (engines numbered 100 through 108) to be used in passenger train service.

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