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[quote]QUOTE: Originally posted by jeaton "A bad day on the IC would be when there was a lash-up of E units and the grills didn't match." Mitch And Wayne Johnston would be calling the passenger locomotive department to find out who caused the foul-up. Jay (sigh) [/quote] Jay, That was just it on the IC. Nothing but IC colored equipment on the passenger trains and matched motive power. I believe it was Wayne Johnston who said "The passenger train is the window through which the public judges the entire operation of the railroad." He also said that the Panama Limited kept the Illinois Central name in the minds of the public. I think his words are true today. I believe I learned my sense of order from the operation of the IC. Especially the suburban service. It was my father who did that illustration of the suburban train with the Prudential Building in the backround on the Electric timetable, along with "IC Electricland" car cards. The end of the Green Diamond insignia, and the dawning of the split-rail marked the beginning of the end, in my thinking, of all order and logic. Mitch
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