December 11, 2000 10:51PM
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Another fond memory...when I was growing up and going to grade school in Baylis, IL in the mid '40s, the Wabash line ran thru the center of town from Decatur, IL to Hannibal, MO. Baylis was the highest point on the line between the Illinois and Mississippi Rivers and the school yearbook was called "Hi Point."
Helper engines were stationed at Baylis and would back down the line a mile or so in either direction, to hook up with a freight and bring it thru town. Once I was standing on the station platform when a double-header came thundering thru...what a sight and sound show that was...the ground just shook.
We lived a half mile east of town and I walked to school...one winter morning I saw a double-header freight going west up the hill, with big clouds of gray and white smoke billowing from the stacks. This was long before I owned a camera, but I can still see it to this day.
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