A Chicago & Illinois Midland freight curves through downtown Pekin, Illinois, on February 17, 1991. Lead locomotive on the train—C&IM EMD SD38-2 No. 72—is about to pass over Illinois State Route 9 grade crossing. Mostly a coal hauling road, C&IM operated from Peoria through Springfield, to Taylorville, which included a rail-to-barge transfer service at Havana on the Illinois River.
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