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[quote user="desertdog"] The Prairie Central (PACY) was one of several short lines that Craig Burroughs attempted in the early years of railroad deregulation.   It still shows up in my 1983 Official Guide. It operated 74 miles between Decatur and Paris, Illinois over former Penn Central trackage.  It was the second operator after PC, having been preceeded for a short period by the Wabash Valley Railroad Corp. (WVRC), a Morrison-Knudsen subsidiary.  A sister road was the Prairie Trunk (PARY) from Flora to Shawneetown, IL.Both lines folded early, as did the Erie Western (ERES) that tried to keep the Erie-Lackawanna main line alive across western Ohio and Indiana and Burroughs' Louisiana Midland (LOAM) down south.You may have more luck posting at some of the Yahoo midwestern railfan groups.  This topic pops up from time to time and there are many who know a lot more about the subject than I.John Timm [/quote]Bless the ERES - a noble yet futile effort to keep the main line of my favorite railroad operating.  What's more: they tried it with RS-3s, one of my favorite locomotives after the E's and F's.
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