Photos & Videos Photo of the Day C&EI’s ‘Dixie Express’ departs Chicago

C&EI’s ‘Dixie Express’ departs Chicago

By Angela Cotey | March 3, 2022

Chicago and Eastern Illinois Railroad Dixie Express

Chicago & Eastern Illinois 4-6-2 No. 1016 dashes through the South Side of Chicago with the outbound Dixie Express in 1946.
R. R. Malinoski photo

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