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By Brian Schmidt | November 22, 2021

| Last updated on August 8, 2025


Steam locomotive with freight train

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4-8-2 2605, a product of IC’s own Paducah (Ky.) shops, leads a long string of refrigerator cars north on the main line at Peotone, Ill., in the 1940s. Illinois Central photo

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