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Title: Kindle version of IC reviewed = generally pleased
Review: I bought the Kindle version of the book since the paper version was outrageously expensive. In general I did like the book. Both the narrative and the photos/illustrations were quite nice. I would have like to seen better reproductions of the maps. Having grown up in Chicago and attending the University of Illinois in Champaign-Urbana in the 1960s I got to be quite familiar with the passenger trains that connected those two cities. I think on balance the author was fair in his attention to the various geographic regions that this line served. Were he have gone into a lot more depth this book could easily have been 4 to 10 times as long. But then it wouldn't have been the easy read that it was. For those rail fans interested in a concise summary and nicely illustrated presentation of the Illinois Central I can recommend this for your collection
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