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Michael Palmieri's Collection
 
6/10/2025
 
 
 
 
 
Owner: Illinois Central Gulf
Model:Rebuilt EMD GP8Built As:IC 9013 (GP9)
Serial Number:18810Order No:5307
Frame Number:5307-14Built:5/1954
Notes:to PAL 8320
Other locos with this serial:  PAL 8320(GP10) ICG 7986(GP8) MRIX 8320(GP8) PAL 8320(GP8)
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ICG Depot
Title:  ICG Depot
Description:  ICG GP8 7986 poses on the main line beside the depot at Arcadia, Louisiana; on the Vicksburg-Shreveport line. Notice all of the LNG tank cars on the depot_house track. Today this line is the KCS/NS Meridian Speedway.

Arcadia is the seat of Bienville Parish, and achieved some notoriety on 23 May 1934 after the infamous outlaws Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow had an unfortunate encounter with some law enforcement officers near here. After the shoot-out, the outlaws' bodies were brought here to Conger's Funeral Home for embalming. The "Barow Gang" had just robbed a bank in Gibsland, eight miles away, and met their demise southwest of Arcadia on Louisiana State Highway 154. Another Bienville Parish landmark is Driskill Mountain, about ten miles to the south. At 535 feet, it is the highest natural point in the state of Louisiana.
Photo Date:  2/8/1977  Upload Date: 1/2/2010 1:24:20 PM
Location:  Arcadia, LA
Author:  Michael Palmieri
Categories:  Scenic,Station
Locomotives:  ICG 7986(GP8)
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