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Essex

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2,527 km from Chicago
1,183 m above sea level

Essex — Photo: Burley Packwood, CC BY-SA 4.0

Flag stop for the Izaak Walton Inn, at the southern edge of Glacier National Park.

Along the line nearby

2,551 kmThe Middle Fork of the Flathead

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