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One of my first memories was when my parents and I would go to downtown Chicago on the commuter trains usually from Cumberland Station in Des Plaines, IL. This was when steam was still being used, and this line still had long distance passenger trains. I especially remember while waiting for our train, sometimes an express would come through at speed. Not more than 10 feet away, Noise! and the ground would shake, cool! I remember noting that the cars on those trains had three axle trucks but our trains had only two axle trucks. I remember when getting off the train in the Chicago terminal, you had to walk past the locomotive (steam) only a few feet away! <br /> <br />To give you a time and without looking it up, I think the C&NW quit using steam in the spring of 1956 which was a few months before I turned 7. <br /> <br />My parents have told me, although I have no personal recollection of this, that the first words that I learned to read were the railroad names on box cars in trains that we watched go by.
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