The rail corridor that runs underneath what is now the Mickelson Trail was built by the Chicago Burlington and Quincy Railroad in 1890. The glory days ended in 1983 when the last regularly scheduled train left Deadwood, South Dakota. At that time, leaders in Pierre were talking about a recreational trail out of the railbed. | SDPB

A Chicago Burlington & Quincy (CB&Q) freight and passenger train roll by somewhere west of Chicago in the mid 1960s. From the Green Frog Productions show "Chicago Odyssey, Volume One" https://rfd.video/ChicagoOdyssey1 | Railfan Depot

74K views · 4.2K reactions | Alco built Grand Trunk Western 5629, a 4-6-2 K-4 was purchased by Chicago-based railfan Richard Jensen, who used No. 5629 to pull several excursion trains in the Chicago area throughout the 1960s. Two of those excursions are seen in this clip from the Herron Rail Video show "Glory Machines of the Grand Trunk Western" https://rfd.video/GloryGTW | Steam Giants | Facebook

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