Pacific with Santa Fe mail and express

Pacific with Santa Fe mail and express

By Angela Cotey | February 13, 2023

| Last updated on August 7, 2025


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A mail-and-express train running as the second section of Santa Fe train 20 descends Edelstein Hill west of Chillicothe, Ill., around 1950. Six express reefers trail the locomotive, followed by several baggage express cars. The locomotive, Pacific No. 3434, has its smokestack extension raised.
T. H. Cole Jr. photo

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