HOLD MAIN LINE AT LINCOLN JUNCTION. Despite springlike conditions, the Chicago, Peoria, and Southern had coal and manufactured goods to haul.


The Peoria station looks like something from the Dual Monarchy, although you won't see coal trains like this east of Halifax or west of the Bug River.


Today's crew included lots of people from the Fox Valley club, who know how to move trains. They'd pulled all the interchange tracks on a previous run, leaving this two-horse hitch to return from Springfield to Peoria.


The CP&S is a Soo Line property, hence the unusual diesels within bribing distance of the State House.