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icsd20 (144 posts)
Nov-18-01, 11:25 PM (EST) "New switcher for the IC route?" Thought maybe this might come in handy on Davids' IC route.
Let me know what Y'all think.Thanks,
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Subject Author Message Date ID RE: New switcher for the IC route? ace6879 Nov-19-01 1 RE: New switcher for the IC route? DKlemm Nov-19-01 2 RE: New switcher for the IC route? henry3 Nov-20-01 3 RE: New switcher for the IC route? icsd20 Nov-21-01 4 RE: New switcher for the IC route? RMapplebeck Nov-21-01 5 RE: New switcher for the IC route? RMapplebeck Nov-21-01 6 RE: New switcher for the IC route? henry3 Nov-21-01 7 RE: New switcher for the IC route? ace6879 Nov-21-01 8 RE: New switcher for the IC route? henry3 Nov-21-01 10 RE: New switcher for the IC route? ace6879 Nov-21-01 9 RE: New switcher for the IC route? icsd20 Nov-21-01 11 RE: New switcher for the IC route? henry3 Nov-21-01 12 RE: New switcher for the IC route? henry3 Nov-21-01 13 RE: New switcher for the IC route? RMapplebeck Nov-21-01 14 RE: New switcher for the IC route? ace6879 Nov-22-01 15 RE: New switcher for the IC route? icsd20 Nov-22-01 17 RE: New switcher for the IC route? icsd20 Nov-22-01 16 RE: New switcher for the IC route? ace6879 Nov-22-01 18 RE: New switcher for the IC route? icsd20 Nov-22-01 19 RE: New switcher for the IC route? RMapplebeck Nov-22-01 21 RE: New switcher for the IC route? DKlemm Nov-22-01 25 RE: New switcher for the IC route? RMapplebeck Nov-22-01 26 RE: New switcher for the IC route? icsd20 Nov-22-01 20 RE: New switcher for the IC route? ace6879 Nov-22-01 22 RE: New switcher for the IC route? ace6879 Nov-22-01 23 RE: New switcher for the IC route? henry3 Nov-22-01 24 RE: New switcher for the IC route? icsd20 Nov-23-01 27

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ace6879 (299 posts)
Nov-19-01, 00:20 AM (EST) 1. "RE: New switcher for the IC route?" Just what the AI trains ned in the activity!! Looks great!!Thanks!!Kelley Remove | Alert Edit | Reply | Reply With Quote | Top
DKlemm (689 posts)
Nov-19-01, 08:58 AM (EST) 2. "RE: New switcher for the IC route?" I like, a lot! I bought my dad an HO model caboose of the IT. He say them a lot as a kid in Springfield IL. That will come in handy in the yard that I put in over the weekend in Decatur that was shared by the IT and IC. It services the ADM, Firestone and Caterpiller manufacturing plants. It's 10 tracks that would mostly be filled with tanker and hoppers (like Trouble built). Some coal to service the power plants as Caterpiller and ADM have their own power plants.David Klemm
Illinois Central Route
Illinois and St Louis Divisions
Ver 0.5 uploaded
Working on Decatur IL
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henry3 (235 posts)
Nov-20-01, 12:15 PM (EST) 3. "RE: New switcher for the IC route?" Great! Now, do you wanna try your hand at Camaro's GP7? He has a nice, non-dynamic version that I've been looking at, but so far it's still sitting on my to-do list.And you're a heck of a lot quicker than I am!Henry Remove | Alert Edit | Reply | Reply With Quote | Top
icsd20 (144 posts)
Nov-21-01, 07:04 AM (EST) 4. "RE: New switcher for the IC route?" High nose or low nose?All I can find are high nose pics. Except for the Paducah rebuilt GP10s and 11s.The only GP7 model I have is a low nose, no dyno brake.
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RMapplebeck (21 posts)
Nov-21-01, 09:04 AM (EST) 5. "RE: New switcher for the IC route?" Hey Sam,
Any chance I could talk you into doing some in Waterloo livery, which was essentially the green diamond striping but the cab number (1-4) was in place of the green diamond. the Waterloo rwy co (WCF&N) was jointly owned by the IC and the RI, they were later repainted in the IC orage and white


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RMapplebeck (21 posts)
Nov-21-01, 09:07 AM (EST) 6. "RE: New switcher for the IC route?" woops, failed to say that they were solid black, wish i had a photo to reference.. i might have to search thru the family photo albums to find a pic, but i doubt i have one... Remove | Alert Edit | Reply | Reply With Quote | Top
henry3 (235 posts)
Nov-21-01, 01:51 PM (EST) 7. "RE: New switcher for the IC route?" Oh, I should have been a bit more clear. (A lot more clear, actually! :0 )I was talking about an Illinois Terminal GP7 above, not the IC version. (Though I believe that Camaro has a "Paducah" Geep on his to-do list.) I believe that all of the IT GP7s were of the hi-nose, non-dynamic brake variety. That would give us even more power for the IC2 "competition". I can e-mail you the blank hi-nosed GP7 if you don't have it.Now nothing would be wrong with having some hi-nosed IC Geeps as well... And who knows, maybe someone will do a non-dynamic version of the SD39. (Both versions, actually!) I believe those were the last locos purchased by the Illinois Terminal.Henry Remove | Alert Edit | Reply | Reply With Quote | Top
ace6879 (299 posts)
Nov-21-01, 02:33 PM (EST) 8. "RE: New switcher for the IC route?" LAST EDITED ON Nov-21-01 AT 02:35 PM (EST)Hi Henry, Sam needs pics of the '38's and SD39's!! I don't have any do you??
Thanks!!KelleyOOPS!!! I didnt think it posted, so I re-sent it!! Remove | Alert Edit | Reply | Reply With Quote | Top
henry3 (235 posts)
Nov-21-01, 03:45 PM (EST) 10. "RE: New switcher for the IC route?" I'll have to check back at the house this weekend. My usual source, George Elwood's website, didn't have any. He did have some of the GP7s, though.Henry Remove | Alert Edit | Reply | Reply With Quote | Top
ace6879 (299 posts)
Nov-21-01, 02:34 PM (EST) 9. "RE: New switcher for the IC route?" Hi Henry, Sam needs pics of the IT GP38's and SD39's. I don't have any. Do you by chance??
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icsd20 (144 posts)
Nov-21-01, 03:46 PM (EST) 11. "RE: New switcher for the IC route?" Thanks, I never did get that high nose GP7. At least I don't think I did. I have so many files floating around it's hard to be sure. So you can send it to icrr66@hotmail.com.66 is the year I was born. Not sure what icrr is though.
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henry3 (235 posts)
Nov-21-01, 03:56 PM (EST) 12. "RE: New switcher for the IC route?" >So you can send it to
>icrr66@hotmail.com.
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>66 is the year I was
>born.
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>Not sure what icrr is though.
> ROFL!!!I'll send you the hi-nose when I get home.Henry
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henry3 (235 posts)
Nov-21-01, 07:20 PM (EST) 13. "RE: New switcher for the IC route?" You have mail!Henry Remove | Alert Edit | Reply | Reply With Quote | Top
RMapplebeck (21 posts)
Nov-21-01, 10:49 PM (EST) 14. "RE: New switcher for the IC route?" OK, I feel like the idiot here.. i saw that it was IT as well and for some bloody reason didnt think otherwise... so who do I be real nice to and make what ever bribes it takes to get a Black Waterloo Switcher???Robert Remove | Alert Edit | Reply | Reply With Quote | Top
ace6879 (299 posts)
Nov-22-01, 00:03 AM (EST) 15. "RE: New switcher for the IC route?" Question, Isn't the Waterloo still out there on paper anyway? I see WLO hoppers, boxes, and Autoracks all the time!!
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icsd20 (144 posts)
Nov-22-01, 02:01 AM (EST) 17. "RE: New switcher for the IC route?" Kelley,If you see them, then don't you see them on the rails?I would think it odd to see an autotrack roll by on paper. Sorry, couldn't resist.Man this forum sure is fun.Thanks,
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icsd20 (144 posts)
Nov-22-01, 01:59 AM (EST) 16. "RE: New switcher for the IC route?" OK. Let me get this straight. They look like the black green diamond era IC except they have the number where the diamond is under the cab? Numbers 1-4?Thanks,
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ace6879 (299 posts)
Nov-22-01, 02:52 AM (EST) 18. "RE: New switcher for the IC route?" LAST EDITED ON Nov-22-01 AT 03:07 AM (EST)LAST EDITED ON Nov-22-01 AT 02:52 AM (EST)Sorry Guys!!
My poor punctuation!!! although if I drew many pictures of an Autorack goin by on MANY sheets of paper..It would look kinda cool!! Also Sam, Just for the hec of it.....(hint) there is a pic of the orange and white WATERLOO switcher too!!! To make a WLO auto rack, use the IC font in black letters, take the MILW auto rack pic I sent you and color over the MILW hearald,and in Diagonal put the three letters W-L-O left to right where the MILW logo was. (AFTER making the MILW rack!! LMAO!! )I keep hoping they will put the one up on the Tri-level leads in at Chrysler, but I think it is stored there. It has its doors open, so pics are kinda moot right now. When Jack Haley bought the CCP, I THINK the WLO stayed with the IC and that is how the "new" subsidiary was formed. This was the Cedar River RR. There is also A Cedar Valley RR as well.
All of this was put back into the fold upon the IC-CCP merger.Well, I am back to work now!! If I miss anyone, HAPPY THANKSGIVING!@!Kelley Remove | Alert Edit | Reply | Reply With Quote | Top
icsd20 (144 posts)
Nov-22-01, 06:25 AM (EST) 19. "RE: New switcher for the IC route?" Kelley,Man do you know how hard it would be to do that orange and white one?I'd have to take my orange and white ICG switcher, paint over ILLINOIS CENTRAL GULF and the I logo then change the number.That would take me, Oh say, five minutes. Sorry, I am free from work until Monday and I am in a real good mood. Or is it evil mood? I never can remember. I might even do a couple autoracks to go with the other six I haven't posted here yet.Thanks,
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RMapplebeck (21 posts)
Nov-22-01, 06:34 AM (EST) 21. "RE: New switcher for the IC route?" Yeah, the wlo is still out there on paper..... shuffling somehwere... pun intended.... I do see grain cars and some boxcars now and then up here in Minneapolis/St Paul, but I have never seen any autoracks, course, if they are on paper, who knows, they may have come across a good deal on a lease.
OK, now let me see if I can get this right (I have been searching the web for the last 3 hours hoping to find some photo of them, and did search the photos I have here from my childhood).
They were painted the Flat black, had white stripes running around the frame sill and I belive right above the hand rail on the hood. I do not know for sure if the hand rail strip carried on to the cab or if it was just on the hood (again a photo here would be better then my teenage years wrecked memory)
The cab number was placed where the IC placed the Green Diamond logo. Now while the IC era photo shows the "WATERLOO RR" being stenciled on the hood, I dont belive that in the black scheme of things it was there. Again Hide site and a camera handy would have been a wonder right now. this help?
I am going to check one other source that i just relized would be a good possiblity for pictures, and being its Thanksgiving, I know I can reach him by phone (Uncle)Robert Remove | Alert Edit | Reply | Reply With Quote | Top
DKlemm (689 posts)
Nov-22-01, 07:15 PM (EST) 25. "RE: New switcher for the IC route?" Robert;Where in the Twin cities are you? I use to live in Decatur IL, thus my following of the IC. Now I live in Blaine MN.David Klemm
Illinois Central Route
Illinois and St Louis Divisions
Ver 0.5 uploaded
Working on Decatur IL
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RMapplebeck (21 posts)
Nov-22-01, 11:35 PM (EST) 26. "RE: New switcher for the IC route?" DavidI live in West St Paul, I was born and raised in Waterloo Iowa, where my Grandfather was a conductor for the Waterloo Rainroad and earlier the WCF&N in its interurban days. during my childhood, I had many a cab and caboose ride from the Waterloo shops to Deere to bring empty flats in and loaded flats out.Robert Remove | Alert Edit | Reply | Reply With Quote | Top
icsd20 (144 posts)
Nov-22-01, 06:32 AM (EST) 20. "RE: New switcher for the IC route?" Still got some tweaks to do but here is what I have so far.
Let me know what Y'all think.Thanks,
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ace6879 (299 posts)
Nov-22-01, 10:42 AM (EST) 22. "RE: New switcher for the IC route?" Looks nice to me!! I will light it for you natch!! I am hoping to be ina good mood all weekend!! LoL
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ace6879 (299 posts)
Nov-22-01, 10:54 AM (EST) 23. "RE: New switcher for the IC route?" Looks great as always Sam!! I always liked the 7-up green and yellow of the IT!!! Too bad I cant find a side pic of their PS 4750 hoppers!!! I have pics of them here somewhere, but skinnin material??DeKalb Ill, used to have 7-up green and white squad cars too!! (still do, but not like the Dodge Diplomats of yore!!)I will light the geep for ya as always!!Happy T-day!!Kelley Remove | Alert Edit | Reply | Reply With Quote | Top
henry3 (235 posts)
Nov-22-01, 01:40 PM (EST) 24. "RE: New switcher for the IC route?" Nice job, as usual. No more BNSF locos on the IT!! YAY!! I haven't found anything on the SD39s yet, but I'll look around some more this weekend.Take care, and thanks!Henry Remove | Alert Edit | Reply | Reply With Quote | Top
icsd20 (144 posts)
Nov-23-01, 00:26 AM (EST) 27. "RE: New switcher for the IC route?" Yeah, but I THOUGHT I was posting two DIFFERENT screens of it.Well, here is the other screen.
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