Prized WWII steam engine returning to railroad museum [USA Today]





Date: 12/05/2014

GREEN BAY, Wis. Green Bay's prized historic train engine is on its way back home. After a two-year hiatus at a museum in England, the locomotive named after President Dwight D. Eisenhower is being shipped back to the United States. [From Richard Buckby]


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Company: London to Peterborough (Great Northern Railway)
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