The Illinois Railway Museum annually holds a "Civil War Day" where reenactors stage a battle on the museum grounds, making sure to involve trains in some way. Here, Confederate reinforcements begin to disembark their troop train - played by Bessemer & Lake Erie combine #25 behind Burlington Northern E9A #BN3.

Photographed by Frank Hicks, June 26, 2004.
Added to the photo archive by Frank Hicks, November 19, 2004.
Railroad: Illinois Railway Museum.

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