The rails were in pretty good condition and got better as we approached the Chicago area. I was walking along the platform which must be a quarter mile long in Lafayette and was disturbed to see that only about 20% of the spikes actually touched the rails, the others had backed out as much as 4".

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..I also have a 427 Cobra replica with an aluminum chassis.