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traingeek087
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C&EI
Posted by traingeek087 on Friday, February 20, 2004 6:23 PM
Is the Chicago and Eastern Illinois rr a subsidary of Missouri Pacifc?
Rid'n on the city of New Orleans................
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espeefoamer
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Posted by espeefoamer on Friday, February 20, 2004 6:30 PM
I believe it was at one time. Now it is just a small part of the Big Yellow Sponge.[:(!]
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mudchicken
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Posted by mudchicken on Friday, February 20, 2004 6:43 PM
Part of it wound up with L&N (now CSX), the remainder wound up with the screaming chicken/MP....Their locomotive shop at Mt. Vernon, IL went to Precision National, now NRE.
Go there now and see "ALCO" ind 10 ft tall giant red letters and large Alco and MLW products in storage behind the fence...
Mudchicken Nothing is worth taking the risk of losing a life over. Come home tonight in the same condition that you left home this morning in. Safety begins with ME.... cinscocom-west
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traingeek087
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Posted by traingeek087 on Sunday, February 22, 2004 10:25 PM
Screaming chicken?
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Posted by CG9602 on Sunday, February 22, 2004 10:53 PM
QUOTE: Originally posted by traingeek087

Screaming chicken?


MoPac used an eagle as part of their corporate logo, and also used the eagle as part of the name for their series of prestigious name trains (For example, the Texas Eagle). hence the nickname "screaming hen" or "thunderchick." Now, the Illinois segment that used to be C&EI is now under the ownership of the Armour Yellow Borg, aka U.P.
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Posted by dehusman on Monday, February 23, 2004 6:29 AM
The C&EI looked like and upside down "Y". The western fork was purchased by the MP and the eastern fork by the L&N. The double track from Woodland Jct to Chicago was jointly owned by the MP & L&N, dispatched by the MP. The C&EI was merged into the MP and is now UP. The L&N is part of CSXT and the double track is still dispatched by the UP and both CSXT and UP trains operate over it.

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traingeek087
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Posted by traingeek087 on Thursday, February 26, 2004 12:34 PM
About what time did they split to become UP / CSX?
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mudchicken
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Posted by mudchicken on Thursday, February 26, 2004 1:03 PM
Look over in the UP & CSX Merger Family Trees under RR History

1963 = Court grants C&EI to MP
1976 = Merged into MP
1982= MP into UP
Mudchicken Nothing is worth taking the risk of losing a life over. Come home tonight in the same condition that you left home this morning in. Safety begins with ME.... cinscocom-west
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Posted by CShaveRR on Thursday, February 26, 2004 1:40 PM
I suspect that the L&N portion was sold to them as a merger condition. If I remember right, all of C&EI's freight equipment was shown in the equipment registers with MP-system numbers that were intended for it. Later, some of those series were cut back to reflect the cars that went to the L&N instead.

Carl

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CAACSCOCOM--I don't want to behave improperly, so I just won't behave at all. (SM)

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mudchicken
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Posted by mudchicken on Thursday, February 26, 2004 2:16 PM
Correct...part of the outcome of the 1963 court findings
Mudchicken Nothing is worth taking the risk of losing a life over. Come home tonight in the same condition that you left home this morning in. Safety begins with ME.... cinscocom-west
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Posted by CSSHEGEWISCH on Friday, February 27, 2004 10:21 AM
A small sidebar concerning the sale of C&EI's Evansville line to L&N. Monon protested this sale but L&N dealt with the protest by offering to purchase Monon, which was acceptable to all parties, including the ICC.
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