Illinois Central's "Land O-Corn" makes the station stop at Genoa, Illinois in late 1941, in a photo from the Clifford "Mike" Southard collection preserved at the Kishwaukee Valley Heritage Museum in Genoa. These self-propelled "Motorailers" were manufactured by American Car and Foundry in 1941 and assigned to the newly inaugurated "Land O' Corn" between Chicago and Waterloo, Iowa. The lead car, 140, had Waukesha engines on both trucks while the trailer, 141, had one on the rear truck. They were capable of 83 miles per hour. After a short run of less than four months they were wrecked in a collision and replaced by conventional steam-powered equipment until the train was dieselized with streamlined equipment in 1947.