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Steam in snow

By Brian Schmidt | September 23, 2021

| Last updated on August 8, 2025

Steam locomotive moves freight train along snow-lined tracks

Milwaukee Road 2-8-2 No. 327 rolls south on the Indiana Harbor Belt at La Grange, Ill., in December 1950, bound for Terre Haute, Ind. Robert Milner photo

Steam in snow

Milwaukee Road 2-8-2 No. 327 rolls south on the Indiana Harbor Belt at La Grange, Ill., in December 1950, bound for Terre Haute, Ind. Robert Milner photo

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