Freights meet on the Nickel Plate

Freights meet on the Nickel Plate

By Angela Cotey | November 5, 2024

| Last updated on August 7, 2025


In September 1954 at New Douglas, Ill., on the Nickel Plate Road’s old Clover Leaf line to St. Louis, 2-8-4 703 on westbound freight 49 holds the siding as the caboose of eastbound 98 speeds past on the main.
Philip R. Hastings photo

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