This 33’ twin-bay hopper with offset sides is painted black with red logo/lettering and lettered in white on its sides and ends. It was built in March 1948, serviced in April 1974, and runs on black Bettendorf trucks. In 1972 the Illinois Central merged with the parallel Gulf Mobile & Ohio to form Illinois Central Gulf. By 1990 the road was a trimmed and rationalized Chicago-to-Gulf railroad returned to ownership by individual shareholders and operational management by a team of serious minded railroad people. The name Illinois Central Railroad was restored.

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