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ICG
Title:  ICG
Description:  A pair of ICG units switch a pulpwood yard right off of 22nd Avenue. This former GM&O track was isolated from the rest of the ICG, and was reached by trackage rights over the Meridian & Bigbee.
Photo Date:  4/4/1985  Upload Date: 1/7/2010 10:36:12 AM
Location:  Meridian, MS
Author:  Michael Palmieri
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  ICG 1439(SW14) ICG 8137(GP10)
Views:  1631   Comments: 1
ICG SW14 1445
Title:  ICG SW14 1445
Description:  This was the first SW14 assigned to the New Orleans area, and it was photographed at Stuyvesant Docks Yard. Unlike the later units assigned here, it had gray numbers and it did not have roller bearings or full-length handrails.
Photo Date:  12/27/1980  Upload Date: 6/13/2009 12:39:16 AM
Location:  New Orleans, LA
Author:  Michael Palmieri
Categories:  Roster
Locomotives:  ICG 1445(SW14)
Views:  929   Comments: 1
ICG Transfer Run
Title:  ICG Transfer Run
Description:  Newly-rebuilt Illinois Central Gulf SW14 1445 was running behind Audubon Park in New Orleans with a transfer run from MAYS YARD to STUYVESANT DOCKS YARD. The 1445 was rebuilt from NW2 1001, which had been built as the 9151 in February 1941. The loco had solid bearings, hood-mounted handrails and gray cab numbers, while all of the other SW14’s assigned to New Orleans had roller bearings, frame-mounted handrails and white cab numbers. Caboose 199523 had been built by the Darby Corp. in 1968 as IC 9523.
Photo Date:  1/3/1981  Upload Date: 5/28/2020 5:04:31 PM
Location:  New Orleans, LA
Author:  PAUL H. OLIVER photo
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  ICG 1445(SW14)
Views:  171   Comments: 0
ICG Transfer Run
Title:  ICG Transfer Run
Description:  Newly-rebuilt Illinois Central Gulf SW14 1445 was running behind AUDUBON PARK in New Orleans with a transfer run from MAYS YARD to STUYVESANT DOCKS YARD. The 1445 was rebuilt from NW2 1001, which had been built as the 9151 in February 1941. The loco had solid bearings, hood-mounted handrails and gray cab numbers, while all of the other SW14’s assigned to New Orleans had roller bearings, frame-mounted handrails and white cab numbers. Caboose 199523 had been built by the Darby Corp. in 1968 as IC 9523. The cupola above the caboose is on the Public Health Service Hospital on State Street.
Photo Date:  1/3/1981  Upload Date: 5/28/2020 5:08:06 PM
Location:  New Orleans, LA
Author:  PAUL H. OLIVER photo
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  ICG 1445(SW14)
Views:  228   Comments: 0
ICG 1453
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)
Views:  908   Comments: 1
SP (T&NO) 745 and ICG 1453
Title:  SP (T&NO) 745 and ICG 1453
Description:  The day after Southern Pacific (Texas & New Orleans) 2-8-2 745 was removed from Audubon Park in New Orleans, it was being pushed to its new home a few miles away by Illinois Central Gulf SW14 1453. Leake Avenue was in the foreground, while the Mississippi River levee was on the other side of the railroad tracks. The 745 had been on display in Audubon Park since 1956.
Photo Date:  10/26/1984  Upload Date: 10/26/2021 5:42:45 PM
Location:  New Orleans, LA
Author:  ROSEMOND SCORSONE image, Robert Scorsone collection
Categories:  Steam
Locomotives:  SP 745(2-8-2) TNO 745(2-8-2) ICG 1453(SW14)
Views:  411   Comments: 0
ICG SW14 1457
Title:  ICG SW14 1457
Description:  Illinois Central Gulf SW14 1457 was resting between assignments at the engine terminal in McComb, Mississippi. The locomotive had been built as SW7 9407 in June 1950 and was renumbered 9407 in 1959 to free up its original number for more geeps. The 407 went through the railroad's rebuilding program and emerged as SW14 1457 in March 1981.
Photo Date:  4/9/1983  Upload Date: 6/13/2009 12:41:17 AM
Location:  McComb, MS
Author:  Michael Palmieri
Categories:  Roster
Locomotives:  ICG 1457(SW14)
Views:  920   Comments: 1
ICG 1458
Title:  ICG 1458
Description: 
Photo Date:  10/13/1981  Upload Date: 6/13/2009 12:43:50 AM
Location:  McComb, MS
Author:  Todd Minsk
Categories:  Roster
Locomotives:  ICG 1458(SW14)
Views:  705   Comments: 0
SP 4449
Title:  SP 4449
Description:  After spending a week at the 1984 LOUISIANA WORLD EXPOSITION, ex-SP 4-8-4 4449 was being moved from the fair site to New Orleans Union Passenger Terminal. Here is the little train along at the Walnut Street grade crossing, with the Mississippi River levee right on the other side of the tracks. The train consisted on ICG SW14 1459, combine PNWC 3300 MILN D. GILLESPIE, 4-8-4 4449, and ICG cabooses 199526 and 199041.
Photo Date:  6/8/1984  Upload Date: 3/4/2010 9:46:07 AM
Location:  New Orleans, LA
Author:  Michael Palmieri
Categories: 
Locomotives:  ICG 1459(SW14) SP 4449(4-8-4)
Views:  1413   Comments: 0
ICG 1460
Title:  ICG 1460
Description:  On the Southern Railway at Shrewsbury. Frame No. 4093-1
Photo Date:  5/4/1982  Upload Date: 6/13/2009 12:45:32 AM
Location:  Metairie, LA
Author:  Michael Palmieri
Categories:  Roster
Locomotives:  ICG 1460(SW14)
Views:  631   Comments: 1
ICG SW14 1461
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)
Views:  693   Comments: 1
ICG SW14 1461
Title:  ICG SW14 1461
Description:  Illinois Central Gulf SW14 1461 was heading upriver along the Mississippi near the Prytania Street grade crossing with a train of Polish coke. The coke had been unloaded at the Public Bulk Terminal which was served by the New Orleans Public Belt, and the NOPB delivered the train to the ICG at Cotton Warehouse Yard. The manicured green area along the tracks is actually a 20-foot high levee, and the stuff in the foreground belonged to one of the Bisso compainies.
Photo Date:  4/15/1988  Upload Date: 7/7/2017 9:57:52 PM
Location:  New Orleans, LA
Author:  Michael Palmieri
Categories:  Scenic,Action
Locomotives:  ICG 1461(SW14)
Views:  300   Comments: 0
ICG 1461
Title:  ICG 1461
Description:  ICG SW14 1461 was on a transfer run at the Prytania Street garde crossing. The train was going from Stuyvesant Docks Yard to Mays Yard, and included a large block of hoppers from the New Orelans Public Belt. The cars contained coke imported from Poland.
Photo Date:  4/15/1988  Upload Date: 1/26/2010 9:29:55 AM
Location:  New Orleans, LA
Author:  Michael Palmieri
Categories:  Scenic
Locomotives:  ICG 1461(SW14)
Views:  665   Comments: 3
ICG SW14 1476
Title:  ICG SW14 1476
Description:  Illinois Central Gulf SW14 1476 was parked on an industrial spur at the intersection of Earhart Boulevard and South Dupree Street, near New Orleans Union Passenger Terminal. The locomotive had been built in July 1951 as SW9 9463, was renumbered 463 in 1959 and rebuilt into the 1476 in 1981. Its frame number was confirmed as 4093-34.
Photo Date:  12/7/1983  Upload Date: 6/13/2009 12:48:08 AM
Location:  New Orleans, LA
Author:  Michael Palmieri
Categories:  Roster
Locomotives:  ICG 1476(SW14)
Views:  788   Comments: 3


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