Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad, Galesburg, Illinois
, 1956
h = 50 in
archival pigment print
view in AR
Chicago, Burlington & Quincy 4–8–4 #5634 races toward Galesburg, Illinois, on an overcast afternoon in 1956. A record wheat harvest across the prairies the previous summer required the reactivation of stored steam engines, smartly set aside by the company’s management.