01-14-2013, 09:14 AM
[quote="farawayIC is great and I like the orange/white paint (their rebuilds, like Santa Fe did, are an attraction to me) but it does not match my time.[/quote]
The IC/ICG/re-IC is a very interesting case and probably not well documented for the period 1970-1990, which is at least partly in your interest area. By the mid-1970s, the ICG was one of the railroads in the worst condition, with many expecting it to be the next Rock Island. It pretty much stopped repainting locomotives, so that during the 1980s there was still plenty of orange and white, both IC and ICG lettering, as well as some remaining GM&O units. There was a solid gray paint scheme with large ICG lettering, too, but not many units got it, since they were determined not to spend any unnecessary money on paint.
The IC/ICG/re-IC is a very interesting case and probably not well documented for the period 1970-1990, which is at least partly in your interest area. By the mid-1970s, the ICG was one of the railroads in the worst condition, with many expecting it to be the next Rock Island. It pretty much stopped repainting locomotives, so that during the 1980s there was still plenty of orange and white, both IC and ICG lettering, as well as some remaining GM&O units. There was a solid gray paint scheme with large ICG lettering, too, but not many units got it, since they were determined not to spend any unnecessary money on paint.