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The ('''IC&E''') is a
Class II Railroad operating in the north central
United States . The IC&E is jointly owned with the
Dakota, Minnesota And Eastern Railroad by
Cedar American Rail Holdings , making the combined system the largest class II railroad in the US.
Members of the
Brotherhood Of Locomotive Engineers And Trainmen (BLET), a division of the
Teamsters , gained a contract with the railroad on
January 24 2005 . Railroad employees first organized under the labor union on
December 17 2003 .
The Illinois portion of the IC&E was in earlier times a part of the
Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul And Pacific Railroad .
- Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers and Trainmen ( 2005 .