Cliff, The cab STILL exists in Paducah in the back yard of a resident who has turned it into a shed. I would LOVE to have it in my yard!! I personally saw it...
The MID-AMERICAN article on The Land O' Corn mentions a "distinctive, one-of-a-kind turtleback-roof cafe-lounge" car. Does anyone have a photo of this car? On...
<Amite, LA - Tuesday - 1 April 2008> BNSF GP60B 326 was the second unit on a NB grain empty. 22:10 IC 6018 NORTH CN Grain Empty IC 6018 SD40A-2R BNSF 326 GP60B...
Alas, I didn't make it clear that I was basing the conclusion on more than the builder. Recall that the car in question says "Pullman" on the letterboard. I...
Hello: The MoPac cars were aquired about 1966-1967 and used on the City of New Orleans. I was going to school at Carbondale at the time and rode them from...
Illinois Central RailroadWhen I was attending La Tech in the 1964-65 time frame the east-west trains {Shreveport-Meridian} trains were mixed green and ...
AT the railroad museum at Mendota, as some of you may know we have obrained 2 ex IC ex Metra electrics, numbered 1619 and 1602, We have been advised that these...
I would suspect that there were green cars mixed with the orange and brown cars shortly after the orange and brown color scheme was introduced. The green cars...
It is true that the Highliners were delivered with black ends. The ends were painted orange only after the 1972 wreck at 27th Street. The ends of the old...
Leo, I have IC lettering diagrams, builder photos, magazine articles, operating manuals and even a piece of the original IC decorative glass that was used on...
The Highliner cars were delivered with black ends, but after Oct. 1972 bright orange ends were added. Also the large red marker lights were added as part of...
... CMSP&P? ... IC had their own station not far from the US Highway 20 bridge in downtown Dubuque. It even had an IC Centennial commemorative rock display...
Thanks to all for your help, I will pass this on to the museum as we are totally new to electric equipment, we will probably be asking a lot of dumb questions,...
... Thanks Tim, Perhaps if Amtrak's Black Hawk had run a few more years the station might still be around. I did not see a picture of the station at...
At 10:30pm A Decatur bound train with lone CNIC 2700. Not very common on the Peoria district do you have one unit. Train has 81 cars and mostly loaded( 60...
57 cars trailing three GE's.This is the HOT solid reefer train UP runs. This is going to some non-UP lists for those fans to catch this. Notifying fans of this...
In a message dated 3/30/2008 9:08:46 P.M. Central Daylight Time, ri4599@... writes: Mark; How accurate are these???? Is the 9760 done well? TFV They all...
In a message dated 3/30/2008 6:08:58 P.M. Central Daylight Time, jack_waterman@... writes: The cars were "semi-permanently" connected in power car /...
Does IRM list the dates that the IC equipment is running? I've seen the cars many times in the barns (wish they'd build an elevated walkway next to them), but...
I saw the ic 6114 take a huge train north out of champaign the other day. It had about 20 to 30 of the ballast cars from the quarry there and a full empty...
In a message dated 4/6/2008 6:27:41 P.M. Central Daylight Time, icrrgreendiamond@... writes: Does IRM list the dates that the IC equipment is running?...
IRM has trolley wire, not catenary. The pressure exerted by pantographs greatly exceeds that of trolley poles. So unless a lot of work is done beforehand and...
In a message dated 4/6/2008 6:50:55 P.M. Central Daylight Time, zephyrocket@... writes: So unless a lot of work is done beforehand and great care is...
This is from the April 4, 2008 Issue of Rail Travel News ... McCain aims to kill Amtrak Columnist Wes Vernon reported on Jan 28 that likely GOP presidential...
<Hammond, LA - Sunday - 6 April 2008> ARR - 13:46 DEP - 13:50 AMTK 36 SOUTH SB Amtrak #59 CITY OF NEW ORLEANS AMTK 36 P42DC AMTK 39028 Superliner II Transition...
Does IC 6125 have dynamic brakes? Richard W [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]...
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