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Episode 126: The 1946 Naperville Wreck

Well There‘s Your Problem

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This beautiful E5 hauled the train of the ill-fated wreck. You can also visit the last E5 ever built at the Illinois Railway Museum in Union, Illinois. This is the only one that's entirely made of metal because they paid extra to get it done that way. They got a frame underneath and then these sort of nice curves and stuff are all done up in Bondo. Oh, you imagine the amount of Bondo on those things? My God.

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