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Flat bed rail cars in a waterlogged location. The car in the background says P.D. & E.""[The Peoria, Decatur and Evansville Railway}." was a railroad that connected Peoria, Illinois with Evansville, Indiana for the last 2 decades of the 19th century before becoming part of the Illinois Central Railroad System in 1900."" The people of New Harmony, IN voted to pay the PD&E, via the NH&E, to build a branch line from Stewartsville to their town. This was put into service by December of 1881." (http://www.thepde.info/).