It's 2:30pm on a Sunday afternoon, and patrons disembark from The Limited at Springfield about 60 days before this named-train would become a part of the disappearing railroad blues in the U.S. Members of the NWI-NRHS in Rockford decide to a take a field trip on this train, returning home later that day on Sringfield's other passenger line, the Green Diamond route of the IC. There would be about 3 hours to kill between trains, enough time to walk to the State Capitol and visit other landmarks.
What did passenger trains look like before Amtrak in America, and Via Rail in Canada? Find out in this album with 2,700+ Historical Photos from early passenger trains of North America from the 1900's up until the early years of Government passenger trains
