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Super failure?

Caboose on one-car freight train

Super failure?

Santa Fe’s famed Super C freight commanded high rates — charged to placate other Santa Fe customers. This meant it had extremely limited traffic, as illustrated by a one-car train in 1969. Photo by Wayne Bridges

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Milwaukee’s original Hiawatha departs Chicago

Jan/01/1970
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Nickel Plate yard at Frankfort, Ind.

Jan/01/1970
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Inside Nickel Plate’s Conneaut roundhouse

Jan/01/1970
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Roller-bearing stunt on the Western Maryland

Jan/01/1970
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SP yard at Dunsmuir, Calif.

Jan/01/1970

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