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In 1988 Illinois Central Gulf dropped the “Gulf” and began a concerted effort to repaint locomotives into what railfans dubbed the “Death Star” scheme. There wasn’t much else on the Mainline of Mid-America by the mid-90s. The new IC was sleek, efficient and profitable – just not as colorful.
Visit the southern half of the Illinois Central Railroad as it existed in 1996 for an eye-opening tour of discovery. The secrets of the IC unfold as our travels take you from Fulton, Kentucky to New Orleans.
Explore the exciting northern half of the Illinois Central Railroad from the Chicago area to Fulton, Kentucky. You’ll see locals, switch jobs, through-freights, and fast intermodal trains hard at work.
Chicago’s South Side in the 1960s saw every kind of passenger train – from many different railroads – heading into and out of Chicagoland. See it here on rare film.
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.