{"id":9174,"date":"2014-12-15T02:28:19","date_gmt":"2014-12-15T07:28:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/?p=9174"},"modified":"2014-12-03T23:19:29","modified_gmt":"2014-12-04T04:19:29","slug":"rainbow-consist-in-the-missouri-valley","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/rainbow-consist-in-the-missouri-valley\/","title":{"rendered":"Rainbow Consist in the Missouri Valley."},"content":{"rendered":"

Tracking the Light remembers the Chicago, Central & Pacific.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

\u00a0On April 23, 1995, Howard Ande and I chased this westward CC&P freight through the Missouri Valley to Council Bluffs, Iowa.<\/p>\n

CC&P was a short-lived 1980s-era Illinois Central Gulf spin-off.<\/p>\n

This mixed consist of former Illinois Central Gulf Geeps, a former Chessie System unit, and one of the few CC&P painted locomotives seems to sum up the state of affairs.<\/p>\n

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Chicago Central & Pacific westward freight near Woodbine, on April 23, 1995.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Chicago Central & Pacific westward freight near Woodbine, on April 23, 1995. Exposed with a Nikkormat FTN on Fujichrome Provia 100.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

In my book North American Railroad Family Trees<\/a> (published by Voyageur Press<\/a> in 2013) I described Illinois Central\u2019s tree pruning:<\/p>\n

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\u00a0Among the most unusual 1980s-de-constructions was the result of Illinois Central Gulf\u2019s compulsive trimming of most of its network outside the former IC principal north-south core. Among the new regional railroads created were: Chicago, Central & Pacific in 1985 on the old IC Chicago-Omaha route; Mississippi-based MidSouth in 1986; and the former Alton network spun off as Chicago, Missouri & Western in 1987. All were short-lived creations, and within a decade had been absorbed by other major carriers. In 1996, IC (having dropped \u2018Gulf\u2019 from its name in 1988) bought back the CC&P, MidSouth went to KCS, while C&MW routes were divided between Southern Pacific and Gateway Western (which was later absorbed by KCS). Also created from the ICG network was Paducah & Louisville in 1986, which continues to operate as a independent railroad in 2013.<\/span><\/address>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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