This was one of the long time American north-eastern Class I railroad names that was bankrupt in the mid-1970s and merged into Conrail in 1976 by the Federal Government. The John Wilkes was a New York City to Lehighton passenger train that was begun in 1939 and was gone by 1961.
The artwork below of this train, showing it hauled by a streamlined 4-6-2, is available commercially here
I grew up in Hazleton, and there is no way, even in its heyday, it was worthy of a rail poster destination.
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