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CIM #52 SD9 leading coal train. 7-19-1965. No location.

Not sure why the boxcars are interspersed.

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Really nice. Have never seen a CIM shot out in the wide open spaces like that.
JB

Neat trainload of C&IM coal hoppers.

Very unusual photo. I would never have thought they ran coal trains!
Go

The C&IM had trackage rights on the Illinois Central's Springfield District between Avenue Tower (in Springfield, IL) and "CIMIC". CIMIC is south of Glenarm on IL Rt. 104, just west of I-55.

It's a wild guess, but somewhere between Springfield and CIMIC seems like a possible location.

Or near Havana, where the land is very flat.  

RetiredHogger Wrote:
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> The C&IM had trackage rights on the Illinois
> Central's Springfield District between Avenue
> Tower (in Springfield, IL) and "CIMIC". CIMIC is
> south of Glenarm on IL Rt. 104, just west of
> I-55.
>
> It's a wild guess, but somewhere between
> Springfield and CIMIC seems like a possible
> location.

Pure guess on location just NE of Glenarm, the train looks empty so I wonder if it's SB headed back to the mines

https://www.google.com/maps/@39.6351513,-89.6438877,734m/data=!3m1!1e3?authuser=0&entry=ttu



Edited 2 time(s). Last edit at 04/26/24 14:02 by Spoony81.

Spoony81 Wrote:
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> RetiredHogger Wrote:
> --------------------------------------------------
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> > The C&IM had trackage rights on the Illinois
> > Central's Springfield District between Avenue
> > Tower (in Springfield, IL) and "CIMIC". CIMIC
> is
> > south of Glenarm on IL Rt. 104, just west of
> > I-55.
> >
> > It's a wild guess, but somewhere between
> > Springfield and CIMIC seems like a possible
> > location.
>
> Pure guess on location just NE of Glenarm, the
> train looks empty so I wonder if it's SB headed
> back to the mines
>
> https://www.google.com/maps/@39.6351513,-89.643887
> 7,734m/data=!3m1!1e3?authuser=0&entry=ttu

This is the location that comes to mind. The view from Northbound I-55 is very similar today.  

Definitely a rarity on TO.  Thanks for your posting.
ALLEN

I agree!

RetiredHogger Wrote:
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> Spoony81 Wrote:
> --------------------------------------------------
> -----
> > RetiredHogger Wrote:
> >
> --------------------------------------------------
>
> > -----
> > > The C&IM had trackage rights on the Illinois
> > > Central's Springfield District between Avenue
> > > Tower (in Springfield, IL) and "CIMIC". CIMIC
> > is
> > > south of Glenarm on IL Rt. 104, just west of
> > > I-55.
> > >
> > > It's a wild guess, but somewhere between
> > > Springfield and CIMIC seems like a possible
> > > location.
> >
> > Pure guess on location just NE of Glenarm, the
> > train looks empty so I wonder if it's SB headed
> > back to the mines
> >
> >
> https://www.google.com/maps/@39.6351513,-89.643887
>
> > 7,734m/data=!3m1!1e3?authuser=0&entry=ttu
>
> This is the location that comes to mind. The view
> from Northbound I-55 is very similar today.