Episode 91: Chicago - New York Electric Air Line Railroad
Well There‘s Your Problem
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The Big Cut Near Coffee Creek
Coffee creek was a tiny stream of water at the bottom of a small valley. According to local porter, county legend, a teamster had dropped a bag of coffee in it once by accident. The railroad required maybe not the largest fill evel ever, but certainly a fill which was wildly disproportionate to the geographic obstacle in question.
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