WARNING: This product can expose you to chemicals including lead, which is known to the State of California to cause cancer and birth defects or other reproductive harm. For more information go to: www.P65Warnings.ca.gov
Built in 1956 by Pacific Car & Foundry, this Merchants Despatch Transportation Company steel ice reefer with Bettendorf trucks was lettered for Illinois Central service. Illinois Central Gulf was formed after the merger of Gulf, Mobile & Ohio and the Illinois Central in 1972. Eventually, Canadian National purchased the railroad in 1998.
