I took this photo during a hot Summer afternoon visit to Hawthorne Junction at the Chicago city limits.
Heading southbound aboard a Canadian National transfer train traveling over the Belt Railway of Chicago tracks, We see a freshly painted or even brand new Canadian National covered hopper car with C C reporting marks initials.
The C C or Chicago, Central & Pacific Railroad...was a short lived midwest regional railroad that was created after the former Illinois Central Gulf decided to reorganize during the mid 1980's, and sell off various marginally profitable former Illinois Central, and post 1972 Gulf, Mobile & Ohio railroad lines.
The C C came about from the sale of the Illinois Central Gulf's own Iowa Division Mainline wich operates between Chicago Illinois and Waterloo iowa. The Chicago, Central & Pacific was in operation from 1985, until the reoragnized Illinois Central bought it back in 1996.
The old C C apparently lives on after the 1999 merger and acquisition of the Illinois Central by the Canadian National....if only in stenciled freight car reporting marks like this example.
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