| By: | Richard Kundert |
| Dates: | 1/16/1979 - 4/26/1985 |
| Album Info: | ICG's Amboy district ran from Freeport to Clinton, Ill, a total of 161 miles, crossing or going over/under 11 different railroads at 14 locations. In the 1960's, 2 manifest freights were dispatched in each direction, but by the 1980's the line was on the chopping block and A single local worked the line out one day, back the next. By 1986, most of the line had been removed. The origin of the nickname "Gruber" is lost to history but may have been a Civil War era nickname "Goober Line" as in peanuts. |
