Today's Illinois Central Volume I & 2

[rocmaven]

Watseka Theatre watseka illinois great concerts in 2011;

Sept 3 Jerrod Niemann ; Oct 14 The Outlaws

[Spyda0Jones]

The only places to see these lovely steel beasts are in movies, books, or model railroading. I for one am not proud of canadians stealing a beloved railroad in my own backyard and do nothing about it. at least the U.P. painted one of their new diesel in the colors of one of illinois defunct railroad whereas the CN isnt doing anything. no wonder no one wanna build anything in canada.

[TezJ16]

Great video! Not sure if anyone else has noticed this but the lead engine at 1:47, IC 6060, is the locomotive that hit that CRST truck and caused that pileup in Chicago years ago.

[rocmaven]

Watseka Theatre Watseka Illinois is a beautiful 1931 art deco 375 seat theatre that has great concerts in 2011; Marty Stuart on July 2; Bellamy Brothers on July 15; Josh Thompson on August 5; Ricky Skaggs on August 26.

[mercenary454]

like other things in our country, canadian railroads are starting to gobble up us railroads........i dont approve.

[nkproad777]

Dam you CN!

[CSX6000]

Looks like a great video! I've always been intrigued by the IC!

[gaycowboy31]

I will miss the IC another CN casualty it just doesnt look right being all CN now hell neither does the EJ&E

[AIRPLANEMAN1965]

The old depot was torn down along this stretch of track in downtown Yazoo City, Ms. My hometown just 40 miles NNW of Jackson, Ms. What a shame. However, this same track, is the main line that runs from New Orleans, Jackson, Yazoo City, Greenwood, Memphis, and Chicago for CN, and Amtrak's "City of New Orleans." Very, very heavy rail traffic, for freight trains as well as Amtrak.

[MDSerles]

Man, 1017 was lookin good! I wish they still used the Bluford Sub down here in Southern, IL as frequent as they used to. Down to less than 10 a day.

[Weiberts]

My great great uncles worked for the IC.

[NSwannabeEngineer]

I love that K5LAR24 on IC 6000.

[Weiberts]

Wonderful! Two of my relatives worked on the IC before, during, and after the transition era.

[dasmikey1964]

The IC runs thru my hometown -- they exclusively used the Nathan P5 (but earlier IC's had other horns from GM&O heritage, and some IC Alco's had some pretty strange horns as well).  I miss the old orange & white paint scheme, and now with the CN in firm control, even the old black IC units are starting to get scarce.

[mgobermcedu]

I liked it when IC ran train over the Grenada District...now CN is planning to do away with this route...

[RacoCooper]

I'm getting sick of how CN is absorbing smaller railroads like the UP did in the 90's.

[ce550b]

The smaller railroads can't make it, if they were they wouldn't be for sale.

[msc4lf]

Very Nice vid, thanks for posting!

[CoastStarlight11]

Very hard core

[Bashri]

anyone want to chat

seen it yesterday! lets chat js

[carter20081985]

it no longer the illinois centeral

[NJT4111]

That is A GREAT sounding nathan P5 horn at 4:36

[7674Princess]

LOL....Nice & Shiny...hehehehe

[VespineVid2]

Wow, didn't know the IC ever used K5LAs (2:48). All the horns I hear on the units still running around the CN are P-series of some type.

[KC9LDI]

Great vidio love it

[Ranaldo20]

I always had a small infatuation with the IC, but never got to see it pre-CN. C'est la vie! :(

[zackman86]

When I was growing up in the 90's my Dad worked in one of the towns the IC comes through in Champaign. Whenever I came to his work I'd always see 2 or sometimes 3 IC engines pulling a load coming into town...great memories...

[CSXT8449]

I used to live next to the IC in Memphis when I was 8. My only regret was not having a camera when they were around.

[Strasburg1991]

who's the pentrex narrator?

[trainboy94]

Dave Drui

[mercenary454]

Cant say i'm crazy about cn buying it up. IC all the way.

[Illifornia2000]

I feel the same way too about the IC. I never thought that it would fall victim to the mergermania of the 1990's. Have a good one.

[flexspinner]

i see those every day like about 5 minutes ago lol ontario

[Illifornia2000]

The flatlands of Illinois and the Mississippi Delta remind me of California's Central Valley not just in flat, agricultural lands, but especially with railroad operations. How interesting. Quite majestic in a sense.

[SD70MAC]

I like SD70's horn so great Awesome video

[CMedo]

observaton livesaver on the 6000 class sd40-2's AWESOME!!

[Hiei2k7]

You've got to admit that EMD PowerStroke sound on the hill shots just makes one want to stand up and run out to see some trains...

[stuntedcards]

IC went under before i moved too ca it was called chicago central i lived right by the tracks and it ran by my highschool it was called chicago central unless it only runs down south and is call IC

[rando4038]

the ic sd-40-2's #s 6071,9560-9574 all are former gulf, mobile & ohio railroad sd-40's, the gm&o maybe gone but some of it's former locos that are now 4o plus years old are still alive & kicking!

[zackman86]

and of course now that the IC is owned by candian national I'll bet you that half of the engines that were owned by the gm&o are either retired or are now in CN paint. Although, the 6071 is still in IC paint...but when they retire the thing they should send it to one of the railroad museum's here in illinois...probably the Illinois Railway Museum...but I'm just saying.

[rando4038]

some old gm&o employees here in jackson tennessee are talkin about bringing the ic 6071 when it is retired back here to jackson tn, one reason being that the gm&o sd40 #950 was delivered here to gm&o iselin shops in 1966, to familiarize gm&o shop employees with the newly built sd40

[rando4038]

since the loco was first put into service on the south end of the gm&o between jackson tn , mobile al, & new orleans la., we have the casey jones village railroad museum & also the nashville,chattanooga, & st louis railroad museum here in jackson, tn. that the loco be put on display, and i'm sure they would repaint it in gm&o's beautiful red & white paint scheme #950

[rando4038]

and not failing to mention that the GULF MOBILE & OHIO RR's sd40 # 950 was the first sd40 ever built, it was rebuilt from a sd35 demo, that's why it's frame is so much shorter than a standard sd40

[zackman86]

I think theres 1 railroad museum that has an IC engine in their fleet. The monticello railway museum in monticello, IL has I think the 8733...which I believe is a GP 11. But I like that idea of sending the 6071 back to where it first started.

[rando4038]

the pulpwood cars are gm&o cars

[mustangmangz]

Very nice, Great action

[ronthecyborg]

I noticed just about every IC unit's horn was a different tune.

this would be a nice vid to watch.

[rando4038]

one reason for all the different horns might be because of all the paducah rebuilds of the older diesels that the ic owned and the diesels absorbed during the merger of the gm&o, such as rebuilt gp9's gp18s' gp20s' gp38s' gp38-2's gp40s' sd40s' sd24s' and the sd70 spartan cabs with nathan 5 chimes that sound like a pipe organ

[maineboy1979]

Very nicely done!