Western Railroad Discussion > ICE farwell tour 2008 in pictures

List,

Spent last week up in Iowa and Minnesota to mainly focus on coevering as much of the Iowa Chicago & Eastern system as we could before the CP Rail purchase which occured on October 30th 2008. The trip was a sucess but there were a few days where the train counts were extremly low like four or five moves a day. I will post a total of nine images we took on the trip thanks for taking the time to look at one of my favorite railroads.
Mark Mautner
1. DME SD40-2 # 6088 plus two ICE SD40-2's lead train MKCSP-25 ( mainfest Kansas City to St Paul ) over ICE's Kansas City sub near Heinz, Iowa on october 26th 2008
2. ICE GP9 # 114 one of only a handful left in service on ICE at time of merger rests at Nahant yard in Davenport, Iowa on october 26th 2008.
3. DME SD40-2 # 6363 + plus two mates leads train EAUCC ( ethanol load from Auroa, Sd to Chicago ) seen on the ICE Owatonna subdivision north of Lansing, Mn on october 27th 2008.

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List ,

continuing from previous thread here are images # 4 thru # 6. Look for the final three in the following thread below.
Thanks,
Mark Mautner
4.ICE SD40-2 # 6416 plus three more SD40-2's lead train LWS-26 ( am local based at Wells, Mn ) seen westbound on the Jackson subdivision near Oakland, Mn on october 27th 2008.
5. Above LWS-26 after a long 12 hour run from Mason City,Ia where the Wells, Mn based crew had to cab to get there train at 6am to take west . Seen on the Jackson subdivision east of Albert Lea, Mn nearing dark on october 27th 2008.
6. ICE train LMC-28 ( am local based at mason City, Ia ) seen on the Owatonna sub at Lyle, Mn . The crew has cut away from there train to pull ethanol loads from the plant lcated here october 28th 2008.

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List,
The final three images of the set thanks again for taking the time to look at my stuff.
Mark Mautner
Maryland Heights, Mo

7. ICE train MSPKC-28 ( St Paul to Kansas City ) behind SD40-2 # 6426 + 1 is seen on CP Rail's River subdivision near Minnesota City, Mn on october 28th 2008.
8. ICE train MNAMCX ( Nahant yard to Mason City, Ia extra ) behind a trio of SD40-2's is seen on the Mason City subdivision at Luana, Iowa on october 29th 2008.
9. ICE train FMCKC ( feeder grain Mason City to Kansas City ) runs right donw the middle of second street in downtown Bellvue, Iowa on the Marquette subdivision on october 30th 2008.

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Great photos Mark! Here is a pic from the Chicago Sub from the last week of ICE. Here at Glidden Road Kirkland,Illinois the MCCNA (Chi-Nahant,IA.) with ex-Milwaukee Road 193 now DME 6360 heads west.

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Thanks for sharing these great photos Mark. I was fortunate to shoot a lot of DM&E in northern Iowa and Southern Minnesota in the late 80's and caught the IC&E on several occasions on trips to the midwest. They were both first class operations that will be greatly missed.

Rich Kundert
Ft. Collins, CO

Great shots Mark!

Mark, can you tell me where all the IC&E SD-40-2's came from?? Were they ex-Milw or one of the Canadian roads?

Frank, in Tennessee

Thanks for the great ICE photo tribute, Mark.

Rich

GP30Frank Wrote:
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> Mark, can you tell me where all the IC&E SD-40-2's
> came from?? Were they ex-Milw or one of the
> Canadian roads?

The IC&E 6400-series SD40-2s came from a variety of ancestries. They were rebuilt and long-term leased to IC&E by one of the leasing companies, I believe. There's probably an on-line roster somewhere where all the frame-number-checkers documented this stuff in detail....

....in fact, when I checked this one

http://www.illinirail.com/icerail/detailedroster.htm

I learned that most of the 6400s are from the UP family (including MP, CNW and MKT) but a four are ex-British Columbia Railway, including one of those that was nee-Oneida & Western.

Thank you, Mr. Toledo Patch - I went to the site you mentioned, and it was very helpful.