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Raccoons can range in length from 41cm to 75cm and reach weights of 3.6kg to 9kg and have an expected lifespan of up to 20 years in captivity. Their wild life expectancy, however, is on average only between 1.8 and 3.1 years.
They live in deciduous and mixed forests throughout most of North America, however due to deliberate introductions and escapes from collections these animals now also inhabit much of mainland Europe and Japan. Due to their adaptability and opportunistic feeding habits they are also now found throughout many urban areas, especially in America.
Raccoons will feed on almost anything they can get their hands on including all plant matter including fruits and berries, insects, crustaceans, birds, eggs, small rodents and reptiles. They are largely solitary, however related female animals may also live in small groups, which is thought to partly give more security when the females have young. At the end of winter these animals mate leaving the females pregnant for around 65 days. In early to mid spring the females give birth to 2 to 5 babies called kits.
Pennsylvania Railroad's single class S-2 #6200, the only example built of the 6-8-6 wheel arrangement and the largest direct-drive turbine locomotive ever built, appeared at the Chicago Railroad Fair.
The fair was apparently the brainchild of Chicago & North Western Railway Public Relations Manager Frank Koval, and was intended to commemorate one hundred years of railroading in Chicago. It opened on the 20th July 1948 and ran until Labor Day. It was so successful that it ran for a second year from the 25th June to the 2nd October 1949.
Thirty-eight railroad companies participated in what was the last great national assembly of railroad equipment and technology in the US. There were two and a half miles of railroad, and at least eighteen locomotives operated under their own power during the "Wheels a-Rolling" pageant. Thirty additional locomotives and pieces of equipment were part of the general exhibition.