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EMD E8: Illinois Central

Ridin' on the City of New Orleans,
Illinois Central, Monday morning rail

In 1950, the Illinois Cental expanded their existing passenger diesel fleet with an order of E8A units and B units, owning a total of 16 A units and 2 B units. The locomotives were assigned to some of Illinois Central's most famous routes, such as the Green Diamond, Panama Limited, and of course, the City of New Orleans.

These locomotives would serve Illinois Central well, eventually being leased and wholly taken over once Amtrak took over nation rail services in the 70s. However, their orange and brown paint schemes would survive for several years into the "rainbow era" of Amtrak, being mismatched with various other railroad liveries.

This pack includes nine repaints of themeatballhero's fantastic E8 locomotives, 4 E8As, with the original Illinois Central diamond herald, and a E8B to match, and 3 E8As with the newer Illinois Central "Split Rail" logo, and an E8B to match.

• Illinois Central 4019 E8A -1950 (Includes Reversed)
  
• Illinois Central 4024 E8A -1950
  
• Illinois Central 4028 E8A -1950 (Includes Reversed)
  
• Illinois Central 4031 E8A -1950
  
• Illinois Central 4104 E8B -1950
  
• Illinois Central 4018 E8A -1969
  
• Illinois Central 4029 E8A -1969
  
• Illinois Central 4033 E8A -1969 (Includes Reversed)
  
• Illinois Central 4105 E8B -1969

I hope everyone enjoys! I will be planning on skinning some Illinois Central passenger cars hopefully soon, I just need to find a suitable model to skin.

Also, thanks to the following:

• themeatballhero, for their fantastic E8 locomotive, the resources to skin it, and helping troubleshoot along the way.
  
• The Transport Fever North America Discord server, who particularly assisted on finding correct and accurate colors for this paint scheme.
  
• The Transport Fever 2 Wiki, their instructions on setting up the Model Editor were essential.
  
• You, the people viewing this and downloading this skin! I was blown away with the positive response from my CNW E8s, that it really encouraged me to do more.