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Hi there, <br />I haven't been on that line for a while but back a couple years, there were only a few trains on the line each day... but they could be whoppers. I think that the daily through freight was called 50 and 51. On was the east bound, the other the west bound. I'd seen that train out of Freeport going West on Sunday morning a number of times. They must have used it to equalize power because I'd seen it with as many as 12 locomotives (but several were dead-in-tow.) I think that it ran about 60-80 cars. Its great to see it along the curves in the Galena area. It seems that a unit coal train had used that line (loaded East, empty west also, maybe going into the Joliet area.) I think that there was also a Chicago-Freeport local that worked the industries. It did appear to be a decent physical plant. My wife lived in Freeport for a while before we were married and when I went to visit her, I'd squeeze in a little time to get down to the yard (Wallace yard? I think) in Freeport.
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