For Illinois Central Fans.( Celebrating over 1000 posts )

[ac4400fan]

wounder if this would help
www.ntsb.gov/Publictn/R_Acc.htm

[icmr]

Do any of you know where to find IC locomotive rosters from 1996?



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[icmr]

http://www.microscale.com/catalog_results.mv

I think you will like this Cox 47.



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[Cox 47]

Anybody out there know of a source of Illinois Central decals in N scale ...Cox 47

[icmr]

OK. Thx Cox 47.



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[Cox 47]

Try 24.73.20167 ftparchive for a lot of ic pictures..Cox 47

[icmr]

Beats me. IC didnt do that did they?



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[Anonymous]

SPSF shouldn't paint so fast- why wold a propsed merger railroad paint loco's in a new scheme before the merge was even approved? i'll never understand that

[icmr]

My Tech2 power pack is still working after my Tech4 260 died. It has had one problem yet. cacole I have a question, What did you put your trucks in when you sent them to Athearn?



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[icmr]

Thx dingoix. I dont know just how many are really left but that was the roster from my other site and I cant find a "straight" IC roster without it having CN on it. I like the IC engine ac4400fan. Im still working on my site. I put some pics on there last night. I also have a link to two forums on there, on is the one I started and one that trainboyH16-44 started. I agree, SPSF does = Shouldnt Paint So Fast.



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[Anonymous]

icmr -great illinos central website i had no idea there were so many IC loco's left

[Anonymous]

carl , that athearn IC loco has the same paint scheme as my atlas U33C which was my main loco til' a gear in the rear truck went out- now i have to get that fixed. my most favorite IC paint is the scheme icmr has in his sig pic which was unveiled by IC in 1987

[ac4400fan]

Heres a pic i ran across the other day,This one i took a while ago its my old athearn loco



Carl..

[Anonymous]

there are a bunch of Athearn SF "kodachrome" sd45-2's on ebay-- that paint came about when santa fe proposed to merge w/ southern pacific -SPSF southern pacific santa fe
the merge was rejected but yet SPSF painted some loco's --
some think SPSF stands for Shouldn't Paint So Fast

[icmr]

My friend has a model of a SD45 in that scheme but I cant remember if it is SF or SP.

I have an Illinois Central photo I intend to post on here sometime when I get it ready.



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[Anonymous]

i'm glad someone likes that SF picture

[icmr]

Thanks dingoix. I will go there now. Nice SF picture.



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[Anonymous]

here's an illinos central train tape: http://www.traintapes.com/ click train tapes
they have video's for most current class 1 railroads. there are a lot of BNSF ones i want.

[icmr]

Hello all. Im starting a new Illinois Central website. The address is http://icmrr.tripod.com I also have a link to a forum I started on there.



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[icmr]

Hello all. I forgot to tell you that I saw EMDX74 which is a SD70M-2 Demo unit for NS. It was sitting on a grain siding at Wayne City, IL. It was a great site. My friend got some pics of it. His site is http://ztrainman.tripod.com/ The pic is in the "Other Railroads" section. I did not see any IC units friday. I guess cn doesnt want to run that much.



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[icmr]

Im glad you got your trucks cacole. Im need to send my trucks off.



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[cacole]

4884bigboy,

Go to Athearn's web site at http://www.athearn.com

Click on "Contact Us" in the upper right-hand portion of the first page, and an e-mail form will be part of the next page to pop up. Fill in the data to identify the parts you need by model type (Genesis SD70) and road name; indicate that you need part numbers and prices, and check the box indicating that you want a reply. Then you can order directly from them based on the parts numbers and prices they give you.

[Anonymous]

That's good news about your Genesis SD70s, cacole. I need to get replacement trucks and ditch lights for my UP SD70M. Do I order them through athearn?

[cacole]

Well, I was wrong, as usual. The MOP has a historical society web site with two photos of their doodlebug. The front didn't have tiger stripes, it was a large radiator grill that filled the entire area between the windshields.

But no one has ever made a model of this doodlebug, or one that even looks close, because it was unique to the MOP.

This is the link to the best of the two photos:

http://www.mopac.org/photos_misc/mp_450.jpg

BTW, I received the replacement SD70 trucks from Athearn on Tuesday and installed them Wednesday. Athearn sent exactly what I needed -- one with black sideframes for the IC model, and one in silver for the BNSF warbonnet, so all 4 of my Genesis models are now back on the track.

[icmr]

Bump. Im trying to keep this on the front page guys.



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[icmr]

I like the engine and cars ac4400fan. Its great to see the diamond logo in HO.

Happy Thanksgiving to all of you and thanks for your replies.



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[ac4400fan]

Hi guys i was going threw some old photos and ran across this ,this is 1 of the locos i got for my dad for fathers day last year and the cars on the left in the back ,ill post a better one of them later, He is comming over thanksgiving and want to run his loco lol



Carl..

[icmr]

Very cool KG1960. That must have been great.



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[icmr]

I hope they do. Thanks for tell us.



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[ICRR1964]

There is a small museum in a town about 25 miles from me, it is called Paxton it is located in Ford county Illinois. I'll see if they still got a web site! Had a nice ICRR diplay set up about a year ago!