Illinois Central GP9 mixed freight operating session, August 2024

[@davidbrown4823]

Great IC action

[@brunobiava4833]

@ck7813 Since you have Loksound V in all your Geeps, you need to make a video with your Black, your Orange and White High Hood Phase III and the Orange and White Phase IIs that you Detailed all MUed and pulling a Manifest! Love your work and your videos have been very helpful and inspiring... I remember the late 70s down here on the Southern end of the IC's Mattoon District...all 4 Axle Geeps with up to 120 cars rocking along between 10 and 35 mph... Crews usually exceeded Hours of Service before they got to Evansville or back to Mattoon and usually derailed a couple times a week North of Newton... Trains 295 and 296 were scheduled to meet at Newton but seldom did. First train to make it to Olney would scatter its cars all over town to make room for the meet, and they had about 6 blocks of Street Running on Kitchell... Great Show to watch...

[@scotabot7826]

Nice!!!! Are those factory lights, or did you install them? Just beautiful!! Your layout is so scale. Really looks the part!

[@ck7813]

On 9185 they were upgraded to warm LEDs. That locomotive is so old that it was factory installed with incandescent lights and an original Tsunami 1 decoder. About 4 years ago I had it upgraded to LEDs, a Loksound 5, a Keep Alive, and a Scale Sound Systems speaker. The two orange/white GP9s are factory lights (LED).

[@ronduz1281]

👍👍👍

[@huntercoleman460]

Nice IC freight cars.