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I grew up in Mundelein, Illinois just a couple blocks from downtown where the SOO Line station was in the 1950's. Spent a lot of time playing by the tracks and sidings and in some of the abandoned line shacks before they were torn down in the early '60s. <br /> <br /> I did get to see a few SOO Line steam locos go thru, but it was mostly GP's and F's. I do remember one occasion that a Santa Fe Warbonnet Streamliner came thru, but I do not have any idea why, since Mundelein was nowhere near one of their routes. All I know is that it was an ABBA with at least 25 or more passenger cars, (couple of domes) and it sure was flying thru compared with any of the SOO consists I had ever seen. <br /> <br />We used to get lots of shipping boxes and crates from the freight house crew to use for building our "forts" and to play in. And before the steam engine water tower was removed, we used to climb up on top and watch the trains go by.
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