Happy Halloween 2024 from the Illinois Central Gulf

Product Reviews: Athearn 200 crane and PC&F 50' insulated boxcar, August 2024

Illinois Central GP9 mixed freight operating session, August 2024

Product Review: Walthers Proto GP9 Phase III, Illinois Central. July 2024

Illinois Central Gulf and GM&O coal operating session, June 2024

Loksound 5 DCC decoder, Scale Sound System speaker and LED install in Athearn RTR SD40-2 (DCC ready)

Product Review: ScaleTrains SD40-2 Illinois Central Gulf (orange and gray) H.O. Scale, DCC/Sound

Installation of Scale Sound Systems speaker in Walthers Proto GP35

Product Review: Walthers Proto GP35 Gulf Mobile & Ohio (GM&O), March 2024

Illinois Central railroad operating session, 1990s Death Star!

Illinois Central operating session, HO scale, approximate era, fall 1993 (published February 2024)

Walthers mainline GP9, DCC decoder & speaker install, super detailing. Illinois Central Death Star

Product Review: Walthers Mainline International Wide Vision Caboose, GM&O and ICG August 2023

Product Review: Athearn Genesis SD70 Illinois Central fantasy paint schemes (August 2023)

July 2023 Layout and Life Update

Tangent H.O. IC Centralia Seel Caboose Product Review: Illinois Central (Gulf) November 2022

Product Review: Scale Trains ET44AC CN Heritage Illinois Central 3008 August 2022

August 10, 2022. The 50th Anniversary of the formation of the Illinois Central Gulf Railroad

Product Review: Athearn Genesis GP38-2, Illinois Central Gulf, October 2021

Walthers Mainline SW7 Illinois Central Gulf product review Part I: unboxing and review of features

Walthers Mainline SW7 Illinois Central Gulf product review Part II: installing next18 decoder

Walthers Mainline SW7 Illinois Central Gulf product review Part III: programming decoder

Walthers Mainline SW7 Illinois Central Gulf: Operating Session

Product Review: Athearn Genesis GP18 Illinois Central H.O. Scale DCC/Sound. May 2021.

Illinois Central Gulf H.O. Scale Layout Update, May 2021

Product Review: Tangent PS-2CD 4750 Covered Hopper "thin" Illinois Central Gulf (March 2021)

Illinois Central Gulf Trailer on Flat Car (TOFC) operating session

Thomas the Tank Engine H.O. Scale DCC with sound operating session

Union Pacific H.O. Scale double stack intermodal train (short video)

Retro Product Review: Bachmann Spectrum 4-8-2 Heavy Mountain Steam Locomotive. Illinois Central.

Model railroad build video series, Part I: installing track and roadbed

Model railroad build video series, Part II: track wiring for DCC

Model railroad build video series, Part III: installing DCC components

Model railroad build video series, Part IV: installing Tortoise switch machines, wiring of LED panel

Model railroad build video series, Part V: installing signals; JMRI and LokProgrammer setup

Illinois Central - Canadian National era Operating Session, January 2021.

Digitrax UT6 simple consist (MU) and Tsunami 2 JMRI and CV advanced consist programming

Product Review: Digitrax UT6 Utility Throttle (December 2020)

Bachmann HO Scale Thomas the Tank Engine upgrade to DCC/sound/LEDs

Operating Session:  Athearn Genesis Illinois Central SD70 (October 2020 release)

Product Review: Athearn Genesis SD70 Illinois Central (2020 release)

Digitrax TL1 decoder installation in box car for transponding with BXP88

Operation Session: Athearn 4-8-8-4 Big Boy Union Pacific 4014 Race to Promontory (September 2020)

Product Review: Athearn 4-8-8-4 Big Boy Union Pacific 4014 Race to Promontory (September 2020)

Iowa Northern (IANR) Athearn Box Cars review and operating session

Digitrax DT602 firmware update (September 2020)

July 2020 Athearn Product Announcement: GP38-2 in Illinois Central Gulf

Product Review: Digitrax DT602 Super Throttle, unboxing, setup and review

Preview of my next H.O. scale railroad project.

Brake test on HO scale Illinois Central GP9 using ProtoThrottle

Detailing a Walthers Mainline GP9 Illinois Central locomotive

Operating session with super detailed Walthers Mainline GP9 Illinois Central (2020 release)

Illinois Central mini operating session. GP9 lashup with a grain train.

I am now on Instagram at: illinois_central_gulf_orange

Replacing an ESU Essential Sound Unit Decoder with a Loksound 5 decoder

Resolving a ESU Loksound Essential Sound Unit decoder issue

Part II: Walthers Mainline Essential Sound Unit Programming with LokProgrammer

Walthers Mainline GP9 high hood and chop nose Illinois Central Review

Illinois Central Gulf HO Scale Layout Update, February 2020

Illinois Central GP40R, Canadian National's Waterloo Yard, January 24, 2020