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Illinois Central Gulf 1972-1988 by James Lewnard Hard cover
Illinois Central Gulf 1972-1988 by James Lewnard hard cover
Illinois Central Gulf 1972-1988
Train Operations in the Midwestern States
James Lawnard
Hard Cover
144 Pages
Copyright 2016
Contents
Map - Illinois Central Gulf in the Midwestern States - 1985 5
Introduction 6
Chapter One Chicago Terminal 12
Chapter Two Chicago to Cairo Main 29
Chapter Three Piggyback Trains 49
The SLINGSHOTS 53
Chapter Four Coal Trains 59
Chapter Five Unit Grain Trains 75
Chapter Six Chicago to Iles Mainline, Iles to East St. Louis, Gilman to KC Junction 80
Midwest Division Map 100
Chapter Seven Venice/East St. Louis Terminal 101
Chapter Eight Mattoon-Decatur-Peoria 110
Chapter Nine KC Main 119
Northern Division Map 128
Chapter Ten Iowa Main129
Chapter Eleven Secondary Lines and Branch Lines 136
Chapter Twelve Passenger Trains 141
Illinois Central Transit Map 143
Partial Intro
Rare is the person who can see so clearly into the future as to predict with incredible accuracy the consequences of the decisions and actions of those who live in the present. The leaders of the Gulf, Mobile & Ohio and Illinois Central Railroads certainly had great hopes that their decision to combine their two corporations into one united system would create a prosperous and profitable enterprise. But who among them could have accurately foreseen the economic, political, and social changes that would radically challenge their "new" railroad and limit the Illinois Central Gulf's life to a short sixteen years. Who could have foreseen the transformation of the ICG into a core system shorn of both main lines and clusters of branch lines that were sold off to regional railroads; a new Illinois Central that would be soon grabbed by an ever-expanding Canadian National Railroad system?
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