For Illinois Central Fans.( Celebrating over 1000 posts )

[icmr]

Sounds good to me. Congrats on your 900th post. Im over 800.



Victor

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[waltersrails]

sounds good i need money for my road to make. I might try to sue UP.

[Anonymous]

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
We hope to be upgraded to class 2 soon.(but we need to make money before that happens)

[waltersrails]

sounds good you all have it planed well i'm still trying to get things in line.

[Anonymous]

just sue stUPid for...umm...something

[icmr]

Thats a good story. I know that NS and CSX will be running on my line. I have a dummy version of NS / SOU GP59 #4610 that I might use for my NS run through.



Victor

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[icmr]

I might have to sue stUPid for something stUPid.



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[waltersrails]

sounds good to me.

[icmr]

It does doesnt it.



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[waltersrails]

yep well see yall tuesday

[Anonymous]

I decided i will need run-through engines from the IC&E (which means more i have to paint myself) i'd like to get the IC&E train tape (i'll post a link if i can find it)
here's what their engines look like

[icmr]

I like the pic dingoix. Cya tuesday waltersrails.



Victor

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[waltersrails]

dingoix like the pics.

[Anonymous]

an IC&E engine will not be on my layout for a while though, I need some track, a pair of b-b GP38-2's to paint IC DEATH STAR, and i want to get those 2 IC train tapes before the sale ends. I found a roster for the IC&E and I'm amazed at how small it is:
GP9...7
SD40...20
SD45...2
SD9...2
GP40-2...10
SD40-2...55

[Anonymous]

I had another idea- the IC Ry. can buy engines from BNSF. I'll just paint over the BN logo under each window and put illinois central decals there. this photo shows some engines BNSF has in storage and the IC Ry. hopes to buy a few cascade green SD40-2's.

[Anonymous]

I ordered those illinois central decals today and with them i ordered the Walthers 53' well car and the Athearn illinois central 45' trailers.

[icmr]

Good idea with the name and buying the BN SD40-2's. Sounds good with the IC&E engines and roster.



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[Anonymous]

I'll get this SD40-2 to patch http://www.athearn.com/Products/Default.aspx?ProdID=ATH80172 other than the 2 old b-b I will get to paint I'm going to stick with new Athearn RTR and Atlas engines since they are DCC-ready. I won't buy any more used engines.

[icmr]

Same with me dingoix. All my engines that I get will be DCC ready. I glad you ordered the decals. Im thinking of getting that engine also.



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[waltersrails]

those pics are great dingoix

[icmr]

Yes they are. Did you take them?



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[waltersrails]

ditto

[icmr]

Waltersrails, how is your railroad doing?



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[waltersrails]

same o same o

[icmr]

Is that good?



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[Anonymous]

i did not take those pics[*^_^*], the only pics i've taken are ones of my layout and my trains, that BN SD40-2 would look cool in cascade green if it said "illinois central" underneath the windows (like on a death star). Hopefully by the time i switch to DCC most of my engines will be DCC-ready. I don't know if i'd convert the old b-b's to DCC or just retire them. But I'll cross that bridge when i come to it.

[waltersrails]

ok they look nice though dingoix

ICMR it is good 3 trains during the 5 o clock hour here.

[Anonymous]

I just ran a passenger train and then a freight (as usual) so i guess my RR must be making money...i need to sue stUPid... for....ummm....running their trains on the illinois central railway w/o permission (i'd never let a stUP train on my RR)

[icmr]

stUPid doesnt have trackage or lease rights with IC/SIRC either. Sounds good with the SD40-2's. If you want to convert the Blue Boxes Digitrax has the decoders. I guess your railroad is making a little money then. I like your signature pic dingoix.



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[icmr]

Waltersrails I have 4 trains from 5:28pm to 6:17pm.



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