I noticed that the CN has filed to abandon the remaining mile of track on the old Grenada to Greenwood line in Grenada. In the documents they filed with the...
Corwith tower mileage 6.6 on the Joliet sub in Chicago, has been closed. CN has turned over operations to the BNSF Railway, and the diamond is operated by the...
I guess the town figures if the right of way is abandoned, and sold off, land buyers will remove the embankment. Maybe the town should buy it, and designate...
Freight Trains is the topic for 7pm and repeating @ 11pm Central Time for Modern Marvels on the History Channel. I saw footage of various RR's in the previews,...
Chris: If my research is correct IC 8408 on display at Homewood was originally IC GP9 9181 Serial #20819, Order #5409-64 Built in 1956, rebuilt into IC GP10...
That agrees with what we have found also. And I may say thanks to Tom in the first place for his advice and help in guiding our search. Paul Burgess ...
... VeraSun buyout talk can't ease fears in towns BY LESLIE REED WORLD-HERALD BUREAU LINCOLN — Much is at stake for three Nebraska communities with plants...
Just saw today a Auto parts box car on the UP headed North through Sullivan,IL. This car is in IC Grey and has CN on it. This car is seen at least once a week....
CJ, I just found your photos of the Sioux Falls depot and yard on ICGPhotos.com and was wondering if you have anymore photos on the web. These are great photos...
Was this unit re-numbered as 1781? The 1781 would of been the number if it was repainted in red. My records show the 8181 remained in orange/white paint when...
John: You are right. 1781 is the number it would have been if it had been repainted. Evidently it was not. It came back to the IC as CC 8181. I have a list of...
In the north part of Aberdeen, MS the Illinois Central, Mobile & Ohio, and Frisco used to all run together in a maze of tracks. You can see some of this...
Matt, I have several other photos in the archives, mostly photos of numbers 11 and 12, The Hawkeye in the last year before AMTRAK took over., cjl the...
Aaron, A few months, early one morning, riding the Metrolink to work, just east of the Grand Metro station in St Louis, the boxcar you mentioned, and the other...
From the GM&O group: Wanna buy a depot? Posted by: "gregslaton2001" Gregslaton@... gregslaton2001 Wed Dec 3, 2008 9:13 pm (PST) If you have $4,900,000.00,...
The yard tracks in Durant, MS are currently known as Chicago 1, Chicago 2, etc or something similar. There used to be additional yard tracks on the west side...
I visited the depot at Philly on Friday and got a few pics inside the building. There is a train schedule hanging on the inside wall dated Aug. 19 -1906. I...
The 5th Annual Santa at the IC Depot Santa will be stopping by the depot in Mattoon, Illinois again this year. Children of all ages are invited to enjoy the...
Here's an interesting bit of Illinois Central History. The IC's directors used a standard town plat to layout villages along the Mainline of Mid America....
15:07 CST CP T7561, BNSF Main Manifest, NB BNSF 928 SFWB IC 2461 BNSF 1078 H1 A video of this observation can be found at: www.YouTube.com/RWhitenight Regards,...
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Fred, It looks like part of Assumption, IL on the Gruber was laid out like the plat. The old IC depot sat between Chestnut (Main) and Oak St. The site also...
A lot of town were laid out this way along the IC. If a town has numbered streets intersecting streets named after trees, odds are that you have a town laid...
I saw something on TV a few years back about railroad expansion. It told how the railroads would build a depot in the middle of no where and then layout a town...
I stumbled across this today: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:NE2/valuations/Illinois_Central_Railro ad or http://tinyurl.com/5crzn2 Thomas French...
Must be a work in progress. It doesn't include anything south of the Ohio River that they owned. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]...
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