I checked Champaign's yard on Tuesday night. Unfortunately, it was too dark. From what I could easily see, there were no plows. I'll try to check back...
Did you post the picture to you website? I got a picture of the New PanAm boxcars with the old Guilford boxcars side by side, the other day. On the IC front...
... Apparently it is a lobbying train by Chicago area railroads for the CREATE rail plan. The blue car is a CSX car. The train was destined to Springfield. I...
Photos can be found here... http://rrpicturearchives.net/archivethumbs.aspx?id=20313 The blue car is the new CSXT paint, a lot like early L&N streamliner... ...
The C.R.E.A.T.E. special has returned from Springfield, IL. UP cars are gone - IC & CSX cars are at AMTRAK Roosevelt Road yard as of 2:20pm (03/02/2007) Photo:...
Today, I received my copy of "Illinois Central Pullmans and Parlor Cars" from the Terminal Railroad Association of St. Louis Historical & Technical Society,...
I've seen pictures during the early Amtrak era of ICG business cars painted up in solid Amtrak paint with the ICG name in place of Amtrak. I think this was an...
A westbound BNSF grain empty (led by the BNSF 4588) met a BNSF loaded grain train at Jesup, IA around 0700 this morning on the CN. The loaded grain train had...
I got out for a couple of hours today since the weather was nice and the sun was shining bright. It wasn't quite as busy at Centralia, IL as it normally is but...
In a message dated 3/2/2007 7:10:20 P.M. Eastern Standard Time, larrycandilas@... writes: Most all are operating today in the METRA colors amd a few had...
I was still living in and around the Brookhaven, Mississippi area then and I saw them pulling a lot of grain trains. Every so often one would go to Natchez on...
It seems to me like the SD70s were mixed in with all the 6000, 6100 and 6200 series SD40s, SD40As, SD40-2s and SD40-3s that, by that time, were handling ...
I can't say where they were in 1999, but here's the last reporting of the SD-70's as of 10:27 AM on 7/13/2000. Most if not all these reportings were train...
Thanks for all the info. Did the SD70s leave the IC? More specific, would they have been on the BNSF in Nebraska in 1999? I have an Athearn Genesis IC SD70...
I was living in Ft Worth TX in the late 90's the only IC units I saw were an occasional SD40-2 on the BNSF. Thank you kindly, Mike M. Downers Grove IL ... ...
Were the walkways on the pumpkin engines painted black or orange? I'm guessing black but would like confirmation. Thank you kindly, Mike M. Downers Grove IL...
Well, it certainly needed fixing up after "taking the big plunge" off my layout. Luckily it landed on a carpeted floor, but even so was in pieces. ... From:...
That's what's great about model railroading. If you want to run that power in a BNSF lashup, that's your choice. Since you have seen SD40-2s in IC paint there,...
Fred, If your layout is set at about kitchen table height - that locomotive fell a distance of about 217 feet. Did the crew survive? Sorry just had to do...
Pretty sure it is bocking CN/IC tracks at 18th Street - A Metra Southwest Service train and a UP freight have been involved in a collision at 18th Street in...
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Hello, are you sure about a CN crew on the UP power? I have never heard of CN crew`s operating into UP Canal St. intermodal yard, the location of the accident....
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100% sure. It was a crew out of Hawthorne. They were swapping ends at Cermak and the units got away from them, at least that was the story from the scene. In...
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