Visit the Illinois Central Gulf's Sparta District with its manifest freights, coal trains, and a local all sharing 149 miles of single track main line traversing a territory rife with sags and hogbacks - part of which was known as "The Badlands." It's the story of "old head" railroading, the comic book plant, a big hill (in both directions), coal mines, and much more - all in southern Illinois!
Hardcover with jacket, 128 pages, standard portrait size, Color images with captions.
