Here’s a wallet-sized calendar for 1958 featuring, on the side opposite the calendar, a Burlington locomotive passing a billboard showing a map of the railroad. The locomotive shown in the photo is numbered 9945A which, judging from photos, spent much of its life hauling commuter trains in Illinois and eventually ended up working for Amtrak.

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The map shows all of Burlington’s main lines, including the line to Paducah, Kentucky, which is always surprising to see since I don’t expect a “western” railroad to extend east of Chicago. Burlington opened this line in 1917 when it completed the longest simple truss bridge in the world across the Mississippi River between Metropolis, Illinois and Paducah. In Paducah it exchanged a large volume of freight with the Nashville, Chattanooga and St. Louis Railway, a part of the Louisville & Nashville system.