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Date: 05/05/19 20:00
CN's "unintended" heritage units
Author: calumet

It's been more than 15 years since CN merged the IC but they still haven't gotten around to repainting many of the IC locomotives.  Pictured here are two of IC's SD70 units looking very much like they did when they roamed the rails for IC.  The gold sill stripe is new.but everything else is pretty much the same.

Photographed at Homewood, IL, 5/4/2019.

 

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Date: 05/05/19 20:15
Re: CN's "unintended" heritage units
Author: inCHI

Sets of them have been amazingly consistent around Chicago, seems like more than one set too.

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Date: 05/05/19 23:25
Re: CN's "unintended" heritage units
Author: Ron

IC 6200 Built in December 1975. Ex-ICG SD40-2 6031 < nee IC SD40-2 6031.

I got a glimpse of it on Saturday, but couldn't get a photograph, it came in the west end of the CN Yard in Battle Creek, but there was a guy leaving that was between me and it. But, Sunday, May 5, 2019, I was able to catch it leaving west, on the Battle Creek, Michigan, to South Bend, Indiana, Local Assignment.

Ron

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Date: 05/06/19 04:50
Re: CN's "unintended" heritage units
Author: PCCRNSEngr

Here is the IC 1027 fresh from the paint shop at Hornell, NY March 20, 1999.

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Date: 05/06/19 06:19
Re: CN's "unintended" heritage units
Author: Rmosele

Gosh, I miss the Illinois Central.

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Date: 05/06/19 20:26
Re: CN's "unintended" heritage units
Author: CR900945

Extra credit to "calumet."  Units are sequentially numbered!

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Date: 05/09/19 11:24
Re: CN's "unintended" heritage units
Author: SD70M

Talking of sequential Sd70's, last summer I saw 1000, 1001 and 1002 leaving Kirk Yard at Gary IN. At that time they were running sets of SD70's in the area.

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Date: 05/09/19 16:30
Re: CN's "unintended" heritage units
Author: Chooch

The EMD units pictured look snappy, nice. The only thing about them is possibe confusion with NS. Still looks nice though.

Jim
Hatboro, PA
 

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