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January 1943. "Freight train operations on the Chicago and North Western Railroad between Chicago and Clinton, Iowa." Somewhere in Illinois between Cortland and Malta, en route to Clinton. Medium-format nitrate negative by Jack Delano for the Office of War Information. View full size.
What I wouldn't give for a ride in the caboose.
Trouble with these small towns is that they all look the same, and I live right in the area where this was taken. My guess is that we see Creston in the background.
I wonder if that's the Nadig Family Farm over there on the right?
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