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Subject: Re: [CBQ] Aug 7, 1947 IC passenger and CB&Q freight derailment south of Litchfield, IL
From: Bob Webber <cz17@comcast.net>
Date: Sun, 09 Aug 2009 22:45:22 -0500
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More like the Worm ("City of Salina") - though a bit later.   The 
information for the train including painting diagrams is at the 
Pullman Library.  But for some reason, I thought it, like the early 
UP Streamliners, had confirmed the obsolescence (in design, motive 
power and materials) and been scrapped.  Not sure - though the turret 
cab would have - should have? - provided at least as good of a 
visibility as E units.

At 08:54 PM 8/9/2009, you wrote:
>Hello,
>
>Could the IC Green Diamond in that era have been the light weight
>train similar to the Zephyr, but in green?
>
>ted
>
>At 07:56 PM 8/8/2009, you wrote:
> >Yes, this accident happened just south of Lichfield, IL on August 7,
> >Aug 7 of 1947 to be exact.
> >
> >There's several nice black and white photos of the accident with
> >derailed passenger cars and what look like open-bay coal hoppers 
> on the CB&Q.
> >
> >The CB&Q track is the Beardstown-Centralia sub.  With the IC it
> >could be either a steam or diesel since they had a handful passenger
> >diesels, though IC didn't really dieselize freight until the mid-1950s.
> >
> >The Green Diamond, as the train was known, was traveling at 70
> >m.p.h. when it ripped into the freight train at a point where the
> >two lines cross. Two passenger cars and a baggage car derailed and
> >overturned. The crash occurred at 11:15 a.m.; the train was due in
> >Springfield at noon.
>
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