In the "now I've seen everything" department, here's a photo from the Chicago Tribune showing giraffes for Brookfield Zoo being unloaded from an IC boxcar at...
As I recall, the Lionel boxcar had the giraffe's head sticking out of the roof. The giraffe would automatically duck under overhead obstructions! KC...
The more I look at this photo the more I wonder if it was staged. It just seems strange that they would transport an animal in an unventilated car, and since...
That was the best part of sending H. Harason to the CN. we were able to export some greedy shallow corporate raider to suck of some other county's economy....
Most stuff is hardcore CN here. To find IC you got to search the deadlines. Mark R In a message dated 7/1/2009 10:35:50 A.M. Central Daylight Time, ...
Hmmm... even two of those short-neck species giraffes in striped pajamas! <grin> ... From: Michael Matalis <mmatalis@...> Subject: [IllinoisCentral]...
... It would be interesting to see the article that accompanied this photo in the 50's. This must have been a short move, from Midway or some other cross-town...
The photos might be interesting in 10 years. Maybe we will need to remember how good things were back in '09 when we still used to be able to take photos...
Hey Mark lighten up. Harrison pulled IC out of some serious doldrums and wasn't it Hunter who made sure the IC business train was at Waterloo for the ICHS...
Caught some sidelined Death Stars at both Centralia & Effingham, and a couple of the big guys at Du Quoin. Starting with Centralia in May, a couple of units...
Reminds me of early 90's Centralia deadlines of GP10's. Fred LeSage ... From: illinoiscentral@yahoogroups.com [mailto:illinoiscentral@yahoogroups.com]On Behalf...
Good to see you've been out rail stalking again Butch. There are some nice photos there. I went out to CN's web site last week looking to see how much they...
Butch; What # are the ex KCS grey SD40 rebuilds? What # is the DM&IR Tunnel Motor? I use the original designations for units. So, 6071 is a SD40X, 6000-5 are...
http://donsdepot.donrossgroup.net/dr0108/sct1.jpg Sioux City Terminal had 3 GE 70 Ton units. One #2 was sold to Omaha Lincoln & Beatrice as their #2. OL&B...
I have never seen a picture of the IC 2542, which is the engine on display at McComb, pulling a train. I came across this picture in Mr.Goff's collection. The...
Rumor has it that IRM will run their set of Illinois Central "Wickerliner" electric cars as part of the Trolley Pageant on Saturday 7/4. If anyone plans to...
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