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congrats on your 815 posts icmr. I have a rough idea how the illinois central railway came about- started in Jan. 2006 we bought up a bunch of the old IC mileage in Iowa and bought some from other roads as well. We hope to get trackage rights on the IC line that ran from Chicago to New Orleans, but we can't see the advantage until New Orleans gets back on it's feet. We are working on getting into Kansas as well. We will be buying engines from CN that are still in IC paint. We will buy engines from NS too (DASH 8-40C's) We are a Class 3 railway now. BNSF has trackage rights on our line. We have trackage rights on BNSF and the Iowa,Chicago and Eastern. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Class_III_railroad <br />We hope to be upgraded to class 2 soon.(but we need to make money before that happens)
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