CE&I

Model Railroader General Discussion (Model Railroader)
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I am trying to find the proper paint schemes for CE&I passenger service for their engines and cars during the mid to late 50’s. I have a neighbor that is retired from that road and he comes over to hang out with me and my layout which is B&O. I want to surprise him for his birthday by painting a set of cars and engines in the CE&I paint scheme. Also does anyone know if there are decal sets available for engines and passenger cars for CE&I?

Thanks,

Ray

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Excuse me, but what is the CE&I railroad? Do you mean C&EI (Chicago and Eastern Illinois)? There is a C&EI Historical Society that may be able to help answer your questions.

http://www.ceihs.org/

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Chicago & Eastern Illinois, part of the MoPac system…

Mark

WGAS

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I have tried this website, but no one ever replied back and it didn’t really have any good color pictures of the passenger trains.

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You can edit the title under “more” in the edit function to “C&EI”.

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They were orange and blue, the colors of the U of Illinois.

http://ts4.mm.bing.net/images/thumbnail.aspx?q=406950317583&id=6f2a6ae0aedbd6e56bfb15136f6e5f10&url=http%3A%2F%2Fi489.photobucket.com%2Falbums%2Frr251%2Fn8phu%2FScreen_001-1.png

Later they went to a solid dark blue scheme.

Decals:

http://www.microscale.com/Merchant2/merchant.mvc?Screen=CTGY&Category_Code=CEI

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Which scheme? Original or later? IIRC, after around 1959 or so, the C&EI used a blue “dip” scheme on its E’s and F’s. Microscale does make a few C&EI decal sets. However, the E and F decals are for the later “dip” job paint scheme. The original scheme looked like the F unit scheme on this page: http://www.ceihs.org/cs_frameset.html

EDIT: Sorry about that. Look under “Publications”. There’s not a separate unique link.

There are a couple of pics here: http://www.american-rails.com/chicago-and-eastern-illinois-railroad.html

Although it’s B&W, here’s an example of the dark blue “dip” job: http://donsdepot.donrossgroup.net/dr0604/cei27.jpg

Pic of relatively clean F3’s: http://donsdepot.donrossgroup.net/dr0604/cei1200.jpg original scheme. Same scheme used on E’s.

Dip job E7 in color: http://www.jerryapp.com/arcv3a/ja-r274.jpg

Another pic: http://www.rrpicturearchives.net/showPicture.aspx?id=670169

This book might also help:

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Yeah, the photo in that link below is what I remember them looking like. I grew up in Evansville, IN and would see C&EI E7’s in that blue psint scheme, with just a sinple oval logo below the headlight that had C&EI in the middle of it.

http://www.rrpicturearchives.net/showPicture.aspx?id=670169

At about that same time, the L&N also had the dark blue paint job…

Bob

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Ray: A good source for C&EI color schemes is Morning Sun’s book, Color Guide to Freight And Passen ger Equipment.

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There is also a superb book C&EI in Color…its on my bookshelf at home…possibly Morning Sun pub. Great book.

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L&N took the eastern line from Woodland Junction south to Evansville. The line from Woodland Junction north to Chicago was joint MoPac/L&N. I think that merger occurred in the late 1960’s.

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L&N took the eastern line from Woodland Junction south to Evansville. The line from Woodland Junction north to Chicago was joint MoPac/L&N. I think that merger occurred in the late 1960’s.

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Think “early” sixties when we started seeing Jenks blue engines with a C&EI buzzsaw on them. The Mopac was all set to take them over but the ICC stopped them when the L&N filed a complaint so they ended up splitting it in two, that’s why there were never any “blue” GP30s, they all went to L&N, but the GP35’s came to the C&EI/MoPac in blue with the C&EI buzzsaw. They remained a semi-seperate road until the early 1970’s as they also had SD40’s and SD40-2’s with the C&EI buzzsaw.

This is just from memory but there are several good books which give “all” of the details on the C&EI merger/breakup. Good reading as I remember…

Mark

WGAS

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Go to www.trains.com/magazineindex and search C&EI; it returns 62 entries some of which may be of use to you.

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Some very good sites, thanks. I checked out the Micro-Scale site but they don’t list anything for lettering the passenger cars. Any ideas out there for a source? I ordered the book from Amazon for a source guide. I am wondering if I can copy from a book or picture the lettering into my computer and then have the image transfered to a decal sheet? An idea is this would work if I can’t find anyone that makes lettering for passenger cars?

Thanks, Ray