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As a child I used to go to Chicago for shopping trips with my mother and grandmother from Rockford, IL on the Illinois Central Land 'O Corn operating daily between Waterloo, IA and Chicago and back. Usually four cars and an EMD E7 pulling.
As a college student in Champaign, IL I took the Land 'O Corn to Chicago and xfered to what I think was the City of New Orleans to my stop in Champaign.
On one trip back to Chicago in 1969 during riots in Chicago, the train staff had all of us in all cars pull the shades down to ride in the dark through the city.
There is a plan to resume this Waterloo to Chicago service going on now with Illinois help. Stay tuned.
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Last edited by Dave A; 09-17-2020 at 05:29 PM.
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