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The Illinois Central existed for nearly a century and a half and this program covers the last sixty years from 1938 to the winter of 1998-99, the independent I.C.’s last.
The Illinois Central existed for nearly a century and a half and this program covers the last sixty years from 1938 to the winter of 1998-99, the independent I.C.’s last.
We travel Missouri Pacific territory in Illinois as new owner Union Pacific was taking hold between 1986 and 1988.
Four years after Canadian National swallowed the Illinois Central we travel part of the Mainline of Mid America and look at day to day operations.
Paducah Geeps were plentiful at the beginning of 1990, but by the end of 1991 they were fast disappearing as SD40-2’s from BN were coming online.
As the 1980s came to a close, Norfolk Southern was coming closer to presenting a unified image, but Norfolk & Western and Southern Railway engines were still on the main.
When the Chessie System and the Seaboard System were combined, the new railroad had two routes into East St. Louis: the former Louisville & Nashville line from Louisville and the former Baltimore & Ohio line from Cincinnati. See a variety of traffic pulled by a variety of paint.
This is the Burlington Northern on the former Chicago, Burlington & Quincy line from Centralia to Metropolis, Illinois coal line.
We visit the busiest freight railroad in the world: Union Pacific’s Council Bluffs Subdivision. Join us as we see hot spots such as Gibbon and Grand Island and Bailey Yard.
Big steam returns to the big curve in 2013: Nickel Plate Road 2-8-4 #765 pulled a series of three excursions from Lewistown to Gallitzin, including the assault on the grade west of Altoona and around Horseshoe Curve.
The 1990 National Railway Historical Society convention featured four active mainline steam locomotives: N&W 2-6-6-4 #1218, UP 4-8-4 #844, St. Louis & San Francisco 4-8-2 #1522 and St. Louis Southwestern 4-8-4 #819.
The Missouri Pacific became a part of the Union Pacific in late 1982. But even in the mid and late 80’s, consists of pure blue Missouri Pacific power could still be found.
1990 was a year of change along the Mainline of Mid-America. We see that last months of the double track mainline and the early months of single track operations between Effingham and Cairo in Illinois.
The trains in this program were shot at the end of the ICG’s existence, in the years before the railroad reverted to the Illinois Central name. At that time, there were three ICG paint schemes, and all of them make an appearance.
With some former “Gulf” lines spun off, the renewed IC made a return to the old Illinois Central name, and a new black paint scheme harking back to the days when the Illinois Central was known as the Mainline of Mid America.
This program covers Norfolk Southern early in its existence, with plenty of locomotives painted in the colors of the Southern Railway and Norfolk & Western mixed with newly repainted Norfolk Southern power.
This program examines the formative years of CSX from the end of the Chessie and Seaboard systems in 1985 through CSX’s own image in the early 90’s. We’ll see a lot of early paint.
Here is the last railroad to use steam exclusively in freight service in the United States, the Crab Orchard & Egyptian Railroad. Interviews with one of the railroad’s founders and the current president of the railroad add to the story.
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