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| Title: |
ICG E-UNITS |
| Description: |
Illinois Central E8A 4023, E9B 4108 and E8A 4022 sit on a ready track at New Orleans Union Passenger Terminal, and will depart shortly on Amtrak's PANAMA LIMITED. Trailing unit 4022 was one of at least six IC E-units that were repainted in Amtrak colors while on lease to the national carrier until the delivery of new SDP40F units later in 1974. Amtrak leased these units from IC and then ICG units because they were equipped with Automatic Train Control for use in ATC territory between Champaign and Centralia. |
| Photo Date: |
2/16/1974 Upload Date: 4/28/2016 5:34:19 PM |
| Location: |
New Orleans, LA |
| Author: |
Michael Palmieri |
| Categories: |
Station |
| Locomotives: |
IC 4023(E8A) |
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571 Comments: 1 |
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| Title: |
ICG MAYS YARD |
| Description: |
This view was facing east (timetable south) at the Illinois Central Gulf's MAYS YARD outside of New Orleans. The main line and another track ran around the left side of the yard tower. The tall building in the right background is just a few blocks away from New Orleans Union Passenger Terminal. |
| Photo Date: |
2/27/1975 Upload Date: 6/29/2017 5:01:54 PM |
| Location: |
New Orleans, LA |
| Author: |
Michael Palmieri |
| Categories: |
Yard |
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| Title: |
Used Geeps |
| Description: |
There was no difficulty identifying the previous owners of these Illinois Central Gulf GP7's at the former Gulf Mobile & Ohio engine terminal in Mobile. ICG 19 and 70 were originally Reading 619 and Frisco 615, and they were subsequently outshopped as GP8's 7913 in September 1977 and 7732 in September 1976. |
| Photo Date: |
5/25/1975 Upload Date: 1/3/2017 5:02:25 PM |
| Location: |
Mobile, AL |
| Author: |
Michael Palmieri |
| Categories: |
Yard |
| Locomotives: |
ICG 19(GP7) ICG 70(GP7) |
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755 Comments: 1 |
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| Title: |
ICG Geeps |
| Description: |
Illinois Central GP10 8110 was parked next to an unusual pair of ICG GP7's at the former Gulf Mobile & Ohio engine terminal in Mobile. GP7's 5 and 3 were originally Reading 605 and 603, and were released from the Paducah Shop in February 1977 as GP8's 7730 and 7727. |
| Photo Date: |
5/26/1975 Upload Date: 1/3/2017 5:01:59 PM |
| Location: |
Mobile, AL |
| Author: |
Michael Palmieri |
| Categories: |
Yard |
| Locomotives: |
ICG 8110(GP10) ICG 5(GP7) |
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1210 Comments: 2 |
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| Title: |
ICG Yard |
| Description: |
Illinois Central GP7 8910 and GP18 9404 were switching in the ICG yard at Hammond, Louisiana as a southbound train passed by behind GP10 8216 and two other units. |
| Photo Date: |
3/3/1976 Upload Date: 9/18/2017 10:16:02 PM |
| Location: |
Hammond, LA |
| Author: |
Michael Palmieri |
| Categories: |
Yard |
| Locomotives: |
IC 8910(GP7) ICG 8216(GP10) |
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931 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
ICG Grain Empties |
| Description: |
ICG GP40 3015 and IC GP38AC 9517 bring a train of empty Cargill grain cars off of the branch line from Baton Rouge and onto the main line from New Orleans to Chicago. When this photo was taken, Hammond had a piggyback ramp, and the depot is just on the other side of the train. |
| Photo Date: |
3/20/1976 Upload Date: 6/9/2016 5:22:43 PM |
| Location: |
Hammond, LA |
| Author: |
Michael Palmieri |
| Categories: |
Action |
| Locomotives: |
ICG 3015(GP40) IC 9517(GP38AC) |
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591 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
ICG Special |
| Description: |
The ICG's second Bicentennial GP38 1776 (ex-9503) and GP38-2 9615 head out of New Orleans on the New Orleans Union Passenger Terminal's WESTERN CONNECTION. The train is crossing the drainage canal that seperates the City of New Orleans -- on the right-- from suburban Metairie. The wooden bridge in the background belongs to the Kansas City Southern. As I recall, the purpose of the train was to promote industrial development along the railroad between New Orleans and Baton Rouge. |
| Photo Date: |
4/6/1976 Upload Date: 2/13/2010 4:13:57 PM |
| Location: |
Metairie, LA |
| Author: |
Michael Palmieri |
| Categories: |
Action |
| Locomotives: |
ICG 1776(GP38AC) |
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2163 Comments: 2 |
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| Title: |
ICG Mays Yard |
| Description: |
Fuel and sand facilities at the Illinois Central Gulf's MAYS YARD near New Orleans. |
| Photo Date: |
5/8/1976 Upload Date: 3/26/2018 4:27:31 PM |
| Location: |
New Orleans, LA |
| Author: |
Michael Palmieri |
| Categories: |
Yard |
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396 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
IC SW9 467 |
| Description: |
Illinois Central SW7 467 powers a transfer run from the Mays Yard to Stuyvesant Docks Yard at Nashville Avenue. The tracks on the right are the west end of the New Orleans Public Belt's Cotton Warehouse Yard. |
| Photo Date: |
2/5/1977 Upload Date: 1/26/2010 9:10:31 AM |
| Location: |
New Orleans, LA |
| Author: |
Michael Palmieri |
| Categories: |
Yard |
| Locomotives: |
IC 467(SW9) |
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802 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
ICG Building |
| Description: |
This little ICG maintenance building was located on the east (railroad south) side of Williams Boulevard in Kenner, Louisiana, between the two mainline tracks. The southbound (ex-Yazoo & Mississippi Valley) track is in the foreground, while the northbound track is on the other side of the building. |
| Photo Date: |
3/18/1978 Upload Date: 1/31/2010 3:53:20 PM |
| Location: |
Kenner, LA |
| Author: |
Michael Palmieri |
| Categories: |
Scenic |
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350 Comments: 1 |
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| Title: |
ICG Geeps |
| Description: |
Illinois Central Gulf GP35 2524 (ex-GM&O 626) and Illinois Central GP10 8023 (ex-IC 9023) were parked on the turntable lead at North Baton Rouge Yard. |
| Photo Date: |
5/17/1979 Upload Date: 9/3/2017 3:31:35 PM |
| Location: |
Baton Rouge, LA |
| Author: |
Michael Palmieri |
| Categories: |
Yard |
| Locomotives: |
IC 8023(GP10) |
| Views: |
439 Comments: 1 |
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| Title: |
ICG Grain Train (1) |
| Description: |
Illnois Cenral Gulf GP10 8216, SD40 6056 and U33C 5058 were on a southbound grain train crossing the bridge across Pass Manchac, Louisiana. The new concrete structure was completed in 1972 and replaced the wooden trestle next to it. The train will have to reverse direction in Kenner, just west of MAYS YARD, to get to one of the grain elevators along the Mississippi River, so it has a caboose on each end. The 199510 is behind the engines and the 199596 is on the rear. |
| Photo Date: |
9/22/1979 Upload Date: 9/22/2017 5:25:56 PM |
| Location: |
Manchac, LA |
| Author: |
Michael Palmieri |
| Categories: |
Bridge,Action |
| Locomotives: |
ICG 8216(GP10) ICG 6056(SD40) IC 5058(U33C) |
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869 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
ICG Grain Train (2) |
| Description: |
Illinois Central Gulf caboose 199596 was on the rear of a southbound grain train as it crossed the 7-year old concrete trestle across Pass Manchac. On the other end of the train were GP10 8216, SD40 6056, U33C 5058 and caboose 199510. The train was heading for a grain elevator along the Mississippi River, and would have to reverse direction at Kenner, just west (timetable north) of New Orleans. |
| Photo Date: |
9/22/1979 Upload Date: 9/18/2017 10:04:46 PM |
| Location: |
Manchac, LA |
| Author: |
Michael Palmieri |
| Categories: |
Bridge |
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324 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Grain Train |
| Description: |
An interesting assortment of locomotives lead a southbound grain train across Pass Manchac, about 40 miles north of New Orleans. When this photo was taken, grain trains usually ran with a caboose on each end, as the power had to run around the train in Kenner before heading up the former Y&MV line to the elevators along the Mississippi River. |
| Photo Date: |
9/22/1979 Upload Date: 2/27/2008 8:13:34 PM |
| Location: |
Manchac, LA |
| Author: |
Michael Palmieri |
| Categories: |
Scenic,Bridge,Action |
| Locomotives: |
ICG 8216(GP10) ICG 6056(SD40) IC 5058(U33C) |
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3434 Comments: 12 |
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| Title: |
Caboose Hop |
| Description: |
The IC/ICG/CN serves five big grain elevators along the Mississippi River between New Orleans and Baton Rouge. These locomotives had just delivered a grain train to one of those elevators, and were heading south to Mays Yard near New Orleans to tie up. The units were IC SD40A 6013, ICG (ex-GM&O) SD40 6067 and IC SD40A 6018, with ICG caboose 199311. At this time, this was a common set of power for grain trains, with a former GM&O SD40 bracketed by SD40A's.With a consist like this, all three units had dynamic brakes; and one of the SD40A's would always lead. The SD40A's had Automatic Train Stop (ATS) equipment, and could run all the way from New Orleans to Chicago. Only specially-equipped locomoitves could lead trains through the ATS territory between Champaign and Centralia; and if the lead unit on a train was not an ATS loco, one would have to be added. The ATS was deactivated in 1991, when the railroad was single-tracked and equipped with Centralized Traffic Control. |
| Photo Date: |
9/23/1979 Upload Date: 1/31/2010 10:21:07 AM |
| Location: |
Reserve, LA |
| Author: |
Michael Palmieri |
| Categories: |
Action |
| Locomotives: |
IC 6018(SD40A) |
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1638 Comments: 3 |
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| Title: |
ICG MAYS YARD |
| Description: |
This was the locomotive washer and two sheds at the Illinois Central Gulf's MAYS YARD, just west of New Orleans. |
| Photo Date: |
12/25/1979 Upload Date: 4/10/2018 4:50:22 PM |
| Location: |
New Orleans, LA |
| Author: |
Michael Palmieri |
| Categories: |
Yard |
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283 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Mays Yard |
| Description: |
On Christmas Day 1979 at least 13 assorted GP, SD, and SW units are enjoying the holiday at Mays Yard |
| Photo Date: |
12/25/1979 Upload Date: 11/25/2009 5:46:00 PM |
| Location: |
New Orleans, LA |
| Author: |
Michael Palmieri |
| Categories: |
Scenic,Yard |
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1043 Comments: 2 |
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| Title: |
ICG Mays Yard |
| Description: |
Seven Illinois Central and ICG units were parked next to the engine house at Mays Yard on a beautiful Christmas afternoon. From right to left these were ICG GP35 2537 (ex-GM&O 639), IC GP18 9427, IC SD40A 6022, ICG SD40 6058 (ex-GM&O 909), IC SD40A 6020, IC SW1m 13 and IC SW9 442. The three SD's were all equipped with dynamic brakes, and were a typical set of grain train power. |
| Photo Date: |
12/25/1979 Upload Date: 5/11/2017 6:10:42 PM |
| Location: |
New Orleans, LA |
| Author: |
Michael Palmieri |
| Categories: |
Yard |
| Locomotives: |
ICG 2537(GP35) IC 9427(GP18) |
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1093 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
ICG GP8 7905 |
| Description: |
Illinois Central Gulf GP8 7905 was tied up at Gulfport, Mississippi. |
| Photo Date: |
1/6/1980 Upload Date: 6/14/2009 8:52:01 PM |
| Location: |
Gulfport, MS |
| Author: |
Michael Palmieri |
| Categories: |
Roster |
| Locomotives: |
ICG 7905(GP8) |
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842 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Second Geismar Turn |
| Description: |
The Second Geismar Turn is heading south along the Mississippi River, behind the former Y&MV depot. This train worked from North Baton Rouge Yard to Geismar Yard and back. |
| Photo Date: |
10/9/1980 Upload Date: 2/21/2008 7:44:13 PM |
| Location: |
Baton Rouge, LA |
| Author: |
Michael Palmieri |
| Categories: |
Scenic,Action |
| Locomotives: |
ICG 3044(GP40) IC 7961(GP8) |
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1554 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
ICG 1453 |
| Description: |
Recently-rebuilt ICG SW14 1453 switches an industry along Earhart Blvd., next to the New Orleans Union Passenger Terminal car shop. The locomotive was built as IC TR2A 9207A in December 1949 and was subsequently renumbered 1029A, before being remanufactured into the 1453 in 1981. (month approximate) |
| Photo Date: |
6/6/1981 Upload Date: 6/9/2009 4:09:18 PM |
| Location: |
New Orleans, LA |
| Author: |
Michael Palmieri |
| Categories: |
Scenic,Action |
| Locomotives: |
ICG 1453(SW14) |
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902 Comments: 1 |
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| Title: |
IC 13 |
| Description: |
IC SW1R 13 was switching the McKesson Chemical Co. along Leake Avenue in New Orleans. The locomotive had been built in June 1946 as IC 9027, and was renumbered 612 in October 1953. The railroad extensively rebuilt the locomotive in October 1968, replacing its 6-cylinder 600-horsepower prime mover with an 8-cylinder 1,000-horsepower one, and renumbered it 13. It was to be the prototype for the rebuilding of the IC's entire fleet of SW1's, which would have been renumbered 1-17; but it was the only one done. It spent its later life in New Orleans, and was retired in 1988. |
| Photo Date: |
8/25/1981 Upload Date: 6/9/2009 3:41:45 PM |
| Location: |
New Orleans, LA |
| Author: |
Michael Palmieri |
| Categories: |
Action |
| Locomotives: |
IC 13(SW1R) |
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3107 Comments: 1 |
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| Title: |
IC GP18 9416 |
| Description: |
Illinois Central GP18 9416 was on a southbound work train on the ICG's Bonnet Carre Spillway Trestle. |
| Photo Date: |
12/3/1981 Upload Date: 8/10/2010 12:12:48 PM |
| Location: |
Frenier, LA |
| Author: |
Michael Palmieri |
| Categories: |
Bridge |
| Locomotives: |
IC 9416(GP18) |
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875 Comments: 1 |
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| Title: |
ICG trailer 209 |
| Description: |
Illinois Central Gulf trailer 209 was at the former Gulf Mobile & Ohio yard in Bogalusa, Louisiana. |
| Photo Date: |
12/5/1981 Upload Date: 7/8/2018 10:56:56 AM |
| Location: |
Bogalusa, LA |
| Author: |
Michael Palmieri |
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364 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Servicing Facility |
| Description: |
Illinois Central Gulf GP10 8129 was resting under the sand tower at the south end of the Bogalusa yard. This is former GM&O territory, but notice black GP18 9409 next to the engine house. The caboose sticking out from behind the 8129 was the 199480. |
| Photo Date: |
12/5/1981 Upload Date: 6/10/2009 3:31:50 PM |
| Location: |
Bogalusa, LA |
| Author: |
Michael Palmieri |
| Categories: |
Roster,Yard |
| Locomotives: |
ICG 8129(GP10) |
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966 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
ICG GP10 8214 |
| Description: |
Here was one of the trust plates on Illinois Central Gulf GP10 8214. It had been rebuilt from Union Pacific GP9B 166B in May 1977. |
| Photo Date: |
4/12/1982 Upload Date: 12/16/2017 5:13:13 PM |
| Location: |
Covington, LA |
| Author: |
Michael Palmieri |
| Categories: |
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ICG 8214(GP10) |
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365 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
ICG NC-6 |
| Description: |
Illinois Central Gulf New Orleans-Chicago train NC-6 pulls out of Mays Yard. This train customarily left right after the northbound Amtrak train past the yard. Today's power is a trio of GP40's: 3030, 3036 and 3065. |
| Photo Date: |
10/16/1982 Upload Date: 11/26/2009 5:50:12 PM |
| Location: |
New Orleans, LA |
| Author: |
Michael Palmieri |
| Categories: |
Action |
| Locomotives: |
IC 3030(GP40) |
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791 Comments: 2 |
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| Title: |
ICG SW8 800 |
| Description: |
This SW8 was built in November 1952 as Tremont & Gulf 75, and became Illinois Central 800 after the IC bought the T&G in August 1959. It wore its IC black paint scheme well into the ICG era, and was repainted into the unusual -- and perhaps unique -- black ICG scheme in mid-1981. It also received full-length handrails at the same time. The unit was sold c. 1986. |
| Photo Date: |
6/12/1983 Upload Date: 2/2/2010 2:12:26 PM |
| Location: |
McComb, MS |
| Author: |
Michael Palmieri |
| Categories: |
Roster |
| Locomotives: |
ICG 800(SW8) |
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1738 Comments: 2 |
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| Title: |
IC 613 |
| Description: |
Stored at McComb |
| Photo Date: |
6/12/1983 Upload Date: 2/21/2008 7:49:50 PM |
| Location: |
McComb, MS |
| Author: |
Michael Palmieri |
| Categories: |
Roster |
| Locomotives: |
IC 613(SW1) |
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1571 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
NC-6 |
| Description: |
Six units power northbound ICG train NC-6 two miles south of Ponchatoula, Louisiana. The first three locos -- GP40's 3073, 3074 and 3023 -- are the train's regular power, while the three trailing units -- SD20 2032, GM&O SD40 902, and SD40A 6018 -- are engines which had come south on a grain train. |
| Photo Date: |
9/30/1983 Upload Date: 6/10/2009 3:16:02 PM |
| Location: |
Ponchatoula, LA |
| Author: |
Michael Palmieri |
| Categories: |
Action |
| Locomotives: |
IC 3073(GP40) |
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1032 Comments: 1 |
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| Title: |
Southbound |
| Description: |
A pair of GP35's -- ICG 2529 and GM&O 620 -- lead a southbound ICG freight through Kenner, just about two miles from the train's destination at Mays Yard in Harahan. |
| Photo Date: |
12/15/1983 Upload Date: 6/10/2009 3:49:17 PM |
| Location: |
Kenner, LA |
| Author: |
Michael Palmieri |
| Categories: |
Action |
| Locomotives: |
ICG 2529(GP35) |
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1250 Comments: 2 |
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| Title: |
ICG SW14 1461 |
| Description: |
Illinois Central Gulf SW14 1461 was on a 63-car transfer run, en route from the railroad's Stuyvesant Docks Yard to Mays Yard. The train was on the main line, just west of the Causeway Boulevard overpass. |
| Photo Date: |
3/29/1984 Upload Date: 8/2/2010 12:16:57 PM |
| Location: |
Jefferson, LA |
| Author: |
Michael Palmieri |
| Categories: |
Action |
| Locomotives: |
ICG 1461(SW14) |
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687 Comments: 1 |
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| Title: |
ICG Mays Yard |
| Description: |
Illinois Central Gulf GP40 3022, Gulf Mobile & Ohio GP38 724 and ICG GP40 3062 were behind the sand tower at the ICG's MAYS YARD, just west of New Orleans. |
| Photo Date: |
6/12/1984 Upload Date: 2/22/2019 11:49:27 AM |
| Location: |
New Orleans, LA |
| Author: |
Michael Palmieri |
| Categories: |
Yard |
| Locomotives: |
ICG 3022(GP40) GMO 724(GP38AC) ICG 3062(GP40) |
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417 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
ICG Mays Yard |
| Description: |
Five old unrebuilt Illinois Central Gulf geeps were stored at MAYS YARD, just west of New Orleans, along with GP10 8283. These were GP9’s ICG 9246 and IC 9242, GP18 IC 9425, and GP9’s 9342 and 9334. By this time, the railroad was no longer rebuilding locos, and four of these units probably never ran again, but the 9242 was sold to the Chicago Central & Pacific where it was renumbered 1742. |
| Photo Date: |
6/25/1984 Upload Date: 3/16/2021 6:24:56 PM |
| Location: |
New Orleans, LA |
| Author: |
Michael Palmieri |
| Categories: |
Yard |
| Locomotives: |
ICG 9246(GP9) |
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249 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
IC GP9 9242 |
| Description: |
Well-weathered Illinois Central (Gulf) GP9 9242 was one of five old unrebuilt geeps that were stored at MAYS YARD, just west of New Orleans. This was three years after the railroad stopped remanufacturing old geeps, and four of these units would never run again and were retired the next year, but the 9242 was sold to the Chicago Central & Pacific where it was renumbered 1742. |
| Photo Date: |
6/25/1984 Upload Date: 3/16/2021 6:26:33 PM |
| Location: |
New Orleans, LA |
| Author: |
Michael Palmieri |
| Categories: |
Roster |
| Locomotives: |
IC 9242(GP9) |
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199 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
ICG Geeps |
| Description: |
Illinois Central Gulf GP10 8229 – in the rare solid-orange scheme – and GP11 8708 – in the subsequent grey-and-orange scheme - were parked next to the diesel shop at MAYS YARD, just west of New Orleans. |
| Photo Date: |
6/25/1984 Upload Date: 10/29/2018 1:39:50 PM |
| Location: |
New Orleans, LA |
| Author: |
Michael Palmieri |
| Categories: |
Yard |
| Locomotives: |
ICG 8229(GP10) ICG 8708(GP11) |
| Views: |
476 Comments: 2 |
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| Title: |
ICG Mays Yard |
| Description: |
Five locomotives, wearing four different paint schemes, were gathered around the engine house at the Illinois Central Gulf’s MAYS YARD, just west of New Orleans. In the front were GP38 713, still in its original Gulf Mobile & Ohio colors, coupled to ICG GP40 3039. Behind them were solid orange GP10 8229 with orange-and-gray GP11 8708, and behind them was a glimpse of an unidentified orange-and-white loco. |
| Photo Date: |
6/25/1984 Upload Date: 2/5/2019 9:55:44 PM |
| Location: |
New Orleans, LA |
| Author: |
Michael Palmieri |
| Categories: |
Yard |
| Locomotives: |
GMO 713(GP38) ICG 8229(GP10) |
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398 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
ICG Mays Yard |
| Description: |
Gulf Mobile & Ohio GP38 713, Illinois Central Gulf GP40 3039 and filthy IC GP40 3060 were parked on one of the ready tracks at the ICG's MAYS YARD, just west of New Orleans. |
| Photo Date: |
6/25/1984 Upload Date: 12/28/2018 4:09:37 PM |
| Location: |
New Orleans, LA |
| Author: |
Michael Palmieri |
| Categories: |
Yard |
| Locomotives: |
GMO 713(GP38) ICG 3039(GP40) IC 3060(GP40) |
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497 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
ICG Mays Yard |
| Description: |
The was the compressor shed and storage tanks at the Illinois Central Gulf's MAYS YARD, just west of New Orleans. |
| Photo Date: |
6/25/1984 Upload Date: 4/10/2018 5:05:11 PM |
| Location: |
New Orleans, LA |
| Author: |
Michael Palmieri |
| Categories: |
Yard |
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241 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
ICG Geeps |
| Description: |
After the Illinois Central Gulf stopped rebuilding locomotives at its Paducah Shop in 1982, unrebuilt units and locos needing service went into storage around the railroad. Here were four GP9's, a GP10 and a GP18 in storage at Mays Yard. Ex-GM&O GP38 713, on the far right, was on a set of road power. |
| Photo Date: |
6/25/1984 Upload Date: 5/19/2017 12:35:10 PM |
| Location: |
New Orleans, LA |
| Author: |
Michael Palmieri |
| Categories: |
Yard |
| Locomotives: |
ICG 9346(GP9) |
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362 Comments: 2 |
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| Title: |
Train 55 |
| Description: |
Nearing the end of its 900-mile journey from Chicago, ICG piggyback train P-55 rolls along the Mississippi River levee just inches away from vehicles on Leake Avenue. All three of these geeps -- 3039, 3011 and 3016 -- were from the railroad's first order of forty GP40's, delivered in black paint in 1966. |
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11/14/1984 Upload Date: 6/10/2009 3:10:29 PM |
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New Orleans, LA |
| Author: |
Michael Palmieri |
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Scenic,Action |
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ICG 3039(GP40) |
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ICG Mays Yard |
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This was the car repair shed at the Illinois Central Gulf's MAYS YARD, just west of New Orleans. |
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4/21/1987 Upload Date: 4/10/2018 4:53:02 PM |
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New Orleans, LA |
| Author: |
Michael Palmieri |
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Yard |
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| Title: |
ICG Mays Yard |
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This was a garage at the Illinois Central Gulf's MAYS YARD near New Orleans. |
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4/21/1987 Upload Date: 4/10/2018 4:58:53 PM |
| Location: |
New Orleans, LA |
| Author: |
Michael Palmieri |
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Yard |
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ICG Derailment |
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ICG crane 100408 helps clean up the mess after six cars on southbound piggyback train P-55 derailed at East Bridge Junction. The crane was built by the Industrial Works of Bay City, Michigan in August 1918 as IC X-99. It was subsequently renumbered IC X-111 and then ICG 100408, and is now owned by the Louisiana Railway Heritage Trust. The yellow backhoe is on the ICG main line and the crane is on the NS-ICG interchange track, while the UP units on the right were on the New Orleans Public Belt. |
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2/6/1988 Upload Date: 1/26/2010 9:01:51 AM |
| Location: |
Jefferson, LA |
| Author: |
Michael Palmieri |
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Wreck |
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ICG Piggyback Power |
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At 5 PM on a Saturday afternoon a trio of Illinois Central Gulf units - GP40 3033, GP38-2 9602 ABRAHAM LINCOLN, and GP40R 3104 - were southbound at Eagle Street, on their way from Mays Yard to the railroad's intermodal facility at Stuyvesant Docks Yard to pick up an outbound piggyback train. For about 25 years the locomotives for the IC and ICG piggyback trains would run light between Mays Yard, where the units were serviced, and the intermodal terminal (and vice versa); but this practice was eliminated by fueling the engines on the southbound train at McComb and then letting the power sit at Stuy Docks Yard. The two tracks on this side of the engines belonged to the New Orleans Public Belt, and the empty space in the foreground had accommodated two NOPB-KCS interchange tracks which were removed around 1980. |
| Photo Date: |
3/19/1988 Upload Date: 4/18/2017 2:35:56 PM |
| Location: |
New Orleans, LA |
| Author: |
Michael Palmieri |
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Action |
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IC 3033(GP40) |
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| Title: |
Mays Yard |
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Assorted locomotives congregate outside the little diesel shop at Mays Yard. Although this is now the "new" IC, all of the locomitves are painted for the ICG! |
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1/28/1989 Upload Date: 1/25/2010 12:23:45 PM |
| Location: |
New Orleans, LA |
| Author: |
Michael Palmieri |
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Yard |
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ICG 8337(GP10) |
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IC |
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There's not much on the Canadian National at McComb anymore; but twenty years ago the engine terminal across from the Amtrak depot was usually full of locomotives. Eleven units are in this photo: GP10 8089, GP40's 3077, 3020 and 3016; black GP38 9540, GP38-2's 9637 and 9626, black GP11 8713, and GP10's 8173, 8049 and 8321. |
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3/27/1989 Upload Date: 12/27/2009 1:08:13 PM |
| Location: |
McComb, MS |
| Author: |
Michael Palmieri |
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Yard |
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ICG 8089(GP10) |
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| Title: |
IC Piggyback Power |
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At 9:30AM on this bright Sunday morning Illinois Central GP40R 3105, GP38 9534 and GP38-2 9571 had delivered an intermodal train to the railroad's IMX (Intermodal eXchange) along the Mississippi River at STUYVESANT DOCKS YARD and were returning to MAYS YARD where the crew would go off duty and the geeps would be serviced. In the early evening, a crew would go back on duty and deadhead back to the IMX for the northbound run. This long-standing practice was eliminated a few years later by fueling the units on the southbound train a McComb, and then leaving them at the IMX until departure. The geeps were crossing the New Orleans Public Belt at SOUTHPORT JUNCTION, but about six years later the NOPB installed a connection here with the IC and the crossings were eliminated. |
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4/16/1989 Upload Date: 5/24/2018 12:41:53 PM |
| Location: |
New Orleans, LA |
| Author: |
Michael Palmieri |
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Track,Action |
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IC 3105(GP40R) |
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NOCH |
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IC train NOCH (New Orleans-Chicago) heads north across the Bonnet Carre' Spillway trestle with 131 cars. SD40-2's 6149 and 6128 are both former BN units. |
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2/27/1994 Upload Date: 11/14/2006 3:38:50 AM |
| Location: |
Frenier, LA |
| Author: |
Michael Palmieri |
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Bridge,Action |
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IC 6149(SD40-2) |
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GT GP38-2 5833 |
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Grand Truck Western GP38-2 5833 was on a southbound CN-IC transfer run operating over the New Orleans Public Belt at the UPTOWN SQUARE shopping center. The train was on its way from MAYS YARD to STUYVESANT DOCKS YARD, with many of its cars going to the NOPB. |
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3/8/2001 Upload Date: 1/5/2019 11:37:01 AM |
| Location: |
New Orleans, LA |
| Author: |
Michael Palmieri |
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Action |
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GTW 5833(GP38-2) |
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