Sunday Evening Post – from Chapter Six
This week’s excerpt is from Chapter Six, which covers the Milwaukee Road’s D&I mainline across Illinois from the Mississippi River at Savanna to Davis Junction and Chicago, including a detour on the Ladd line: “With a crew change complete, Milwaukee Road SD40-2 #182 eases away from the platform at the Savanna depot on April 17, 1985. The Soo Line purchased the Milwaukee Road two months earlier on February 19, but it would stay a separate entity until January 1, 1986. (Mike Abalos photo, KG watermark does not appear in the book.)
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