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Illinois Central’s first streamliner, delivered in 1936, was the Green Diamond, a fully articulated aluminum train built by Pullman-Standard and powered by Electro-Motive with a Winton diesel engine. It is pictured at 47th Street, Chicago, near the end of its regular run from St. Louis. Philip Korst Jr. photo
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Remember that IC’s Green Diamond operated from 1936 until 1968. Initially it operated with IC #121, the last of the 1930s fixed-consist articulated streamliners built in the United States. After 1947, the Green Diamond operated with more conventional streamlined equipment until its discontinuance. Unfortunately, the original trainset was not preserved.