Superlative steam

Superlative steam

By Angela Cotey | June 10, 2025

| Last updated on August 8, 2025


Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific had a fleet of 85 4-8-4 Northerns, largest in the country. Here, No. 5058 leads a westbound freight near Lawrence, Kans., in January 1952.
Robert P. Olmsted photo

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