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E7 diesel 1101 leads Chicago & Eastern Illinois’ southbound Meadowlark at 63rd Street station (“Little Englewood”), Chicago, in the late 1940s. The obscure orange-and-blue streamliner terminated at the unlikely location of Cyprus, Ill. (population 300). William N. Clark photo
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Note that the Meadowlark operated from 1946 to 1962. It was the C&EI’s last train to Southern Illinois… The train’s E7A #1101 in the photo was built in 1946.