The City of Miami was a seven-car coach streamliner inaugurated by Illinois Central Railroad on December 18, 1940. Its route was from Chicago to Miami a total distance of 1,493 miles (2,403 km).
Postcard depiction of the train, circa 1940s.
A postcard photograph showing an Illinois Central EMD E8 locomotive pulling the City of Miami (before 1971)
The Bamboo Grove lounge-observation car.
Illinois Central Railroad
The Illinois Central Railroad, sometimes called the Main Line of Mid-America, was a railroad in the Central United States. Its primary routes connected Chicago, Illinois, with New Orleans, Louisiana, and Mobile, Alabama, and thus, the Great Lakes to the Gulf of Mexico. Another line connected Chicago west to Sioux City, Iowa (1870), while smaller branches reached Omaha, Nebraska (1899) from Fort Dodge, Iowa, and Sioux Falls, South Dakota (1877), from Cherokee, Iowa. The IC also ran service to Miami, Florida, on trackage owned by other railroads.
Two Illinois Central EMD SD70s lead a train at Homewood, Illinois
Illinois Central ad (1870)
Illinois Central Rail Road share, issued 1899
ICG hopper with ACI plate