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Photos & Videos Videos Online Video Extra: Dick Wallin’s Illinois Central Steam

Online Video Extra: Dick Wallin’s Illinois Central Steam

By Angela Cotey | April 25, 2007

| Last updated on September 20, 2022

Steam locomotive going away from camera

In our Summer issue, R. R. “Dick” Wallin recalls several cab rides on Illinois Central steam engines. See clips of Wallin’s 8mm color movies from those rides.

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