City of New Orleans Video

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That is a great video. However it looks to me like the train which primarily appears in the video is an excursion train and not the actual City of New Orleans operated by the Illinois Central. My recollection is that the IC City of New Orleans did not have dome cars (and certainly not two domes and not full length ones) and would have been a much longer train.
 
I will stand corrected. The Dec. 13, 1970 IC timetable lists the City of New Orleans with two dome coaches. I will leave it to an IC expert to indicate whether the train in the video is the actual City of New Orleans or not. (I recall seeing the Panama Limited in Chicago a couple times 1968-1970 but I don't believe I actually saw the City of New Orleans. It left too early and arrived too late.)
 
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