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From: Pat Sweeney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Friday, November 26, 1999 09:14
Subject: Re: [IllianaRR] SouthRunner
>
> At 08:32 PM 11/24/99 -0800, Chad Black <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> >I was wondering what ever happend to the IC
> >Conrail(CSX) Southrunner intermodal train that IC ran
> >up to Effingham and then exchanged with Conrail(CSX).
> >There was some pre-speculation of how much better this
> >train was supposed to be when CSX took the reins, at
> >this site
>
> I don't think those trains ever ran, CR or CSX. I never heard of
> them arriving/departing Avon.
>
> How' bout you IC employees? Ever see these trains on the IC?
>
Wasn't that the name of the run-through service? It was not an intermodal
train but the regular trains that Conrail interchanged at Effingham to the
IC, CRGE. The name was just the marketing namefor the service and not used
on the rails.
Tuch
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