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Historical Question

F Foxer55OGR Forum Member

Let me tease the mind of you railroad aficionados.

Let's imagine...

I'm in a town called Litchfield, Illinois, (about 50 miles SSE of Springfield) circa 1930.  What train could I take from there to go to Philadelphia or maybe New York.  I know from some research that Litchfield was a Wabash Railway stop and I remember taking the train once from Litchfield in the 1940s to somewhere on the west coast.  But I'm so old I don't remember the details on that one.  I think we took the train back one time too.  And we flew back from Long Beach in a hair raising thunderstorm excursion one time in a TWA DC-3.

Anyway, what railway train would go from Litchfield to Philadelphia.  Which engine (I presume steam) would it be?  Would the cars all be Pullmans as I doubt the newer cars were extant by then?

Thanks.

Jim        

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NormNormOGR Forum Member SUPPORTING MEMBERDIGITAL SUBSCRIBER

Jim,How far are you from St. Louis?

Looking at the map,getting  to St. Louis via the Wabash,then, and taking the Pennsylvania east to your destination.  The K4 probably would have been the power leading heavyweights east to Harrisburg and beyond if it was 1930(no GG1s yet).  The Pennsy had named trains to and from St. Louis.  I think that this would be a good start--others will chime in,I am sure.

Norm

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MNCW posted:

Jim, I did a little Googling and see there is a train station/museum nearby, maybe you can contact them? 

http://www.litchfieldmuseum.org/train-depot-2/ 

Tom 

Thanks.  I was just about getting to that.  Litchfield may have been kind of a central point for some of the trains.  As I recall when I was young there used to be a lot of them coming through town.  I even remember the family driving out to the edge of town one day to see the collision between a tractor trailer truck and a train.  Its a small town and that was a newsworthy event.  I have to admit, I don't remember the depot looking that good.  Its been rebuilt really nicely.

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