Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 31 December 1951 — Page 18

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One hundred years 2g0 out founders built a railroad across an empty prairie. They looked ahead to the Mid-America we know today. 2 i

Today, we look forward to the time of your children’s children. We encourage the planting of trees they will cut... stimulate the growth of factories, businesses, farms and mines that will be their bread and butter. -

To serve them, we constantly imptove out railroad, build new

cars, lay new track, better our operations, strengthen our financial foundation. *

We do these things because we believe that the future of MidAmerica teposes in the abilit: of its industry, its workers and its farmers to maintain a prosperous economy based upon individual and business freedom to work and progress.

GREAT TREES FROM LITTLE FURROWS GROW

\ ; In half a century, millions of tall pines will stretch skyward In this spirit we pledge our future to you—our friends and from the slender furrows cut by this tree-planting machine neighbors of Mid-America. . developed by the Illinois Central for the use of farmérs and ’ industry: In today’s Mid-America tree farming is big business. WA JOHNSTON Tomorrow it will be even bigger. ; President

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KEEPING MID-AMERICA ROLLING | THE FUTURE OF INDUSTRY ACROSS THE SEVEN SEAS

New freight cars by the thousand roll out of Illinois Central shops Nowhere is the future of industry brighter than in a year. Box cars for industry and commerce, hopper cars for coal, in Mid-America. Here coal resources assure flat cars for heavy machinery, special cars for many purposes—all power for generations to come. Here the upkeep the products of Mid-America on the move. In half-a-dozen years surge of industry creates more products, more

the Illinois Central has spent 100 million dollars on new cars aad pbs, more security and individual opportunity. locomotives. :

Ocean-borne commerce carries a rich tide of goods to and from the shores of Mid-America, making life better both for ourselves and our friends overseas. The welding of closer ties of business and friendship with foreign lands continues to be a major Illinois ‘Central objective,

ILLINOIS CENTRAL RAILROAD

Main Line of Mid-America

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