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Photos & Videos Photo of the Day E8 on the Wabash Cannon Ball

E8 on the Wabash Cannon Ball

By Angela Cotey | October 19, 2015

| Last updated on August 7, 2025

Wabash E8 1007 brings the Wabash Cannon Ball into Litchfield, Ill., near the beginning of its St. Louis–Detroit run in March 1956.
John C. Illman photo

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