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By:Richard Kundert
Dates:1/16/1979 - 4/26/1985
Album Info:ICG's Amboy district ran from Freeport to Clinton, Ill, a total of 161 miles, crossing or going over/under 11 different railroads at 14 locations. In the 1960's, 2 manifest freights were dispatched in each direction, but by the 1980's the line was on the chopping block and A single local worked the line out one day, back the next. By 1986, most of the line had been removed. The origin of the nickname "Gruber" is lost to history but may have been a Civil War era nickname "Goober Line" as in peanuts.
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IC 8096
Title:  IC 8096
Description:  Plowing snow through Baileyville
Photo Date:  1/16/1979  Upload Date: 5/18/2016 7:54:42 PM
Location:  Baileyville, IL
Author:  Richard Kundert
Categories:  Winter,Action
Locomotives:  IC 8096(GP10)
Views:  376   Comments: 1
IC 8055
Title:  IC 8055
Description:  Passing the Forreston station
Photo Date:  5/12/1979  Upload Date: 5/18/2016 7:55:31 PM
Location:  Forreston, IL
Author:  Richard Kundert
Categories:  Station,Action
Locomotives:  IC 8055(GP10)
Views:  552   Comments: 1
ICG 7714
Title:  ICG 7714
Description:  At Dixon, the ICG and CNW shared operations on the Sandusky Branch to serve Medusa Portland Cement and Illinois Northern Utilities. There was enough business generated up through the mid-1970's to keep a switch engine based at Dixon. Just a few blocks south of the depot, the C&NW double track mainline passed over the Gruber.
Photo Date:  5/25/1979  Upload Date: 5/18/2016 7:56:14 PM
Location:  Dixon, IL
Author:  Richard Kundert
Categories:  Station,Action
Locomotives:  ICG 7714(GP8)
Views:  567   Comments: 1
IC 8083
Title:  IC 8083
Description:  Crossing the Milwaukee Road at North Forreston. An interchange track existed just to the north of the Milwaukee Road mainline and a Martin Marietta Concrete Materials gravel quarry provided the IC traffic in the northwest quadrant.
Photo Date:  9/19/1981  Upload Date: 5/18/2016 7:57:01 PM
Location:  Forreston, IL
Author:  Richard Kundert
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  IC 8083(GP10)
Views:  566   Comments: 1
IC 8051
Title:  IC 8051
Description:  The Amboy depot was built in 1876 and was the division offices, housing the dispatchers, accountants, civil engineering and other staff. After only 18 years, the division offices were moved to Chicago. In 1967, the depot closed as an open agency. Today, it is on the National Register of Historic Places and houses the Amboy museum and has numerous IC artifacts. The "Gruber" crossed the BN's Burgess Jct-Denrock branch at Amboy.
Photo Date:  5/25/1983  Upload Date: 5/18/2016 7:59:03 PM
Location:  Amboy, IL
Author:  Richard Kundert
Categories:  Station,Action
Locomotives:  IC 8051(GP10)
Views:  628   Comments: 2
IC 8051
Title:  IC 8051
Description:  Southbound at Sublette. The IC arrived in Sublette in 1854
Photo Date:  5/25/1983  Upload Date: 5/18/2016 8:02:14 PM
Location:  Sublette, IL
Author:  Richard Kundert
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  IC 8051(GP10)
Views:  484   Comments: 1
IC 8051
Title:  IC 8051
Description:  Crossing the BN at Mendota. The Milwaukee Road used IC tracks through Mendota
Photo Date:  5/25/1983  Upload Date: 5/18/2016 8:03:53 PM
Location:  Mendota, IL
Author:  Richard Kundert
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  IC 8051(GP10)
Views:  952   Comments: 1
IC 8051
Title:  IC 8051
Description:  Passing the Minonk depot. The Santa Fe's Ancona-Pekin branch crossed the Gruber at Minonk. Also, at Minonk Junction, a 42 mile branch extended through Pontiac and connected with the "Bloomer" line at Saxony.
Photo Date:  5/25/1983  Upload Date: 5/18/2016 8:04:31 PM
Location:  Minonk, IL
Author:  Richard Kundert
Categories:  Station,Action
Locomotives:  IC 8051(GP10)
Views:  478   Comments: 1
IC 8177
Title:  IC 8177
Description:  Southbound near Mendota
Photo Date:  4/26/1985  Upload Date: 5/18/2016 8:05:13 PM
Location:  Mendota, IL
Author:  Richard Kundert
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  IC 8177(GP10)
Views:  514   Comments: 2


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