File:Soo Line - 2645 Steam Locomotive (E-25-S 4-6-0) 5 (19318807661).jpg
This E-25-S 4-6-0 steam locomotive was built in 1900 by Brooks Locomotive Works for use as a freight engine by the Wisconsin Central Railway. In 1909, it became a Soo Line engine. The locomotive was retired in the 1950s. It is now part of the Mid-Continent Railway Museum collection in the town of North Freedom, Wisconsin.
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Soo Line # 2645 steam locomotive (E-25-S 4-6-0) 5
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James St. John
The railroad ballast on the ground is crushed Baraboo Quartzite, which is ~1.7 billion years old (Paleoproterozoic). It comes from a nearby quarry in the Baraboo Ranges of southern Wisconsin.
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