The IC painted trucks black. However from 1947 through 1955 open top cars were painted brown and I've seen plenty of color photos that show brown hoppers and gons with brown trucks. I've never seen a

The IC had fertilizer sludge cars (I have no idea what fertilizer sludge is) they converted from SS boxcars they acquired from the Tennessee Coal and Iron Railroad. I haven't got a photo but the diagr

IC 97250 and 97251 rebuilt at Centralia in 1950 to carry calcium carbide containers. 3 more cars, 97252 - 97254 rebuilt in 1952 and 7 more, 97255 - 97262 in 1953. There were 763 without the provisions

Please reply off list to jrwhiteATmidwest.net Just realized I left that out.

I preorderd the 4 pack that had the Monsanto car. Trainworld just called and said the order was in and they were going to ship. Does anyone here want any of these cars? Elect. Bleach. Gas #193 Niag. S

This probably isn’t what’s in the reefer in question but my friend who’s layout I operate on is a retired railroader, IC, Big Four, PC and Conrail. He worked in the St Louis area and he talks about ha

Ken, IC 163001-163050 built in 1926 by Pullman in Michigan City renumbered to 40100-40149 in 1942. According to the diagram sheet they had metal bottom door panels, universal handbrakes and metal lat.

A tank company, rifle company or artillery battery would seldom be moved by itself. The battalion is the basic element. If a single company/battery was moving from one post to another for training or

Brian, The Admiral was originally the Albatross. I remember when I was a kid riding on it and going down to the deck where you could see the huge side rods s working. Here’s the Wikipedia page that gi

1935 reweigh date. My 1954 IC freight car diagrams show that car number on a very similar car build by AC&F in 1938 and it doesn't indicate any renumbering so that car was either out of service or ren

Here is a link to a story on the Albatross/Admiral. It's not a dredger it's the Albatross. The pilot house is identical to the photos of the Albatross. The sign between the stacks says Vicksburg Route

Are you referring to the steamboat or the dome shaped things? The steamboat is the IC car ferry Albatross. There is good phot coverage of it in Richard P Bessete's boof on the IC Rods Down and Dropped

Alex, I can send you some photos of IC wood cabooses off list if you need any. Jeff White Alma, IL

James, I looked through my decals and found Champ HT-71. If you need them I'll send them to you. Jeff White Alma, IL

There was a zinc operation in Sandoval, IL. Sandoval was served by the IC Gruber line and the B&O main to St Louis went through Sandoval. The smelter was on the B&O on the east side of town and lookin

This doesn't explain why the IC built different cabooses to operate in Iowa. I'm not an attorney but in my career as a police officer I read and interpreted statutes all the time and by my reading of

The IC used side door cabooses on every division on the line except for Iowa where they were banned by state law. Some of them ran well past the end date of this list and made it into orange paint aft

The TRRA built "cheese box on a raft" cabooses out of old flat cars in the late 30s, early 40s. They cut the side sills to put steps in weakening the structure of the car. They ran until the late 50s.

From the 1930s up into the early 1960s the IC ran dedicated strawberry trains from Louisiana to Chicago during the strawberry harvest. These trains were known as the Crimson Flyers. The ICHS Green Dia

This could possibly be a photo of cars being loaded for one of the IC strawberry trains that ran in that era. They called the trains Crimson Flyer and they ran every spring and followed the strawberry