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M&B Geeps
Title:  M&B Geeps
Description:  Meridian & Bigbee GP7 101 and GP10 104 were on on a transfer run across from the Meridian station.
Photo Date:  5/12/1979  Upload Date: 1/7/2010 10:37:36 AM
Location:  Meridian, MS
Author:  Michael Palmieri
Categories:  Yard
Locomotives:  MB 101(GP7) MB 104(GP10)
Views:  1702   Comments: 1
KCS GP10B 907
Title:  KCS GP10B 907
Description:  Kansas City Southern GP10B 907 was parked on the MERIDIAN SPEEDWAY at Monroe, Louisiana. This thing had been built in April 1954 as Illinois Central GP9 9003 and was rebuilt into GP10 8003 in May 1970. It was sold to MidSouth Rail in March 1986 and was eventually renumbered MSRC 1022, then it became KCS 1907 before being remodeled into remote-control maintenance-of-way power unit 907 by 2008.
Photo Date:  2/13/2010  Upload Date: 11/19/2020 11:50:26 AM
Location:  Monroe, LA
Author:  TOM BLACKWELL image
Categories:  Roster
Locomotives:  KCS 907(GP10)
Views:  497   Comments: 0
Eastbound MSRC
Title:  Eastbound MSRC
Description:  MidSouth Rail GP10's 1008 and 1046 are about to cross the Louisiana & North West track with an eastbound train. L&NW caboose 215, GP9 51, and a couple of F7A's are parked outside the railroad's engine house.
Photo Date:  6/20/1988  Upload Date: 8/23/2007 10:48:09 PM
Location:  Gibsland, LA
Author:  Michael Palmieri
Categories:  Scenic,Track,Action
Locomotives:  MSRC 1008(GP10) LNW 51(GP9)
Views:  2292   Comments: 0
MidSouth Rail Geeps
Title:  MidSouth Rail Geeps
Description:  In this view from Mississippi Highway 3, MidSouth Rail GP10's 1014 and 1022 were switching Ballground Yard, just north of the big International Paper Co. mill near Redwood, Mississippi. This track was once a part of the Illinois Central's 29-mile REDWOOD DISTRICT, completed between Redwood Junction and Valley in 1967 and one of the last new lines built by the IC. Because of unstable roadbed conditions in areas adjacent to the Yazoo River, the northern 20 miles of the line - between Ballground Yard and Valley - were abandoned in 1975 after less than 10 years in operation. This track is currently owned by the Kansas City Southern and operated by Watco's Vicksburg Southern.
Photo Date:  3/25/1989  Upload Date: 1/4/2017 10:42:23 AM
Location:  Ballground, MS
Author:  Michael Palmieri
Categories:  Scenic,Action
Locomotives:  MSRC 1014(GP10) MSRC 1022(GP10)
Views:  988   Comments: 1
Eastbound MSRC
Title:  Eastbound MSRC
Description:  An eastbound MidSouth Rail train, with GP10's 1028 and 1026 and GP9 9001, crosses the Louisiana & North West. MidLouisiana Rail (former North Louisiana & Gulf) power is on the left, on the MSRC interchange.
Photo Date:  10/9/1987  Upload Date: 8/23/2007 10:39:40 PM
Location:  Gibsland, LA
Author:  Michael Palmieri
Categories:  Scenic,Track,Action
Locomotives:  MSRC 1028(GP10) MSRC 1026(GP10) MSRC 9001(GP9)
Views:  1665   Comments: 1
MSRC 1036
Title:  MSRC 1036
Description:  Amid a cloud of exhaust smoke and dead kudzu, MidSouth Rail's JACKSON TURN emerges from the short tunnel under Washington Street as it climbs the steep grade up from the Vicksburg yard. The train has GP10's 1036 and 1037, GP9 9004, and GP10's 1001 and 1049 with 88 cars. The tunnel was built by the Alabama & Vicksburg in 1897.
Photo Date:  3/25/1989  Upload Date: 1/1/2010 4:06:36 PM
Location:  Vicksburg, MS
Author:  Michael Palmieri
Categories:  Scenic,Tunnel,Action
Locomotives:  MSRC 1036(GP10)
Views:  1592   Comments: 1
F&P Southbound Train
Title:  F&P Southbound Train
Description:  Fordyce & Princeton SW1500 1504 and Ashley Drew & Northern GP10 1810 leave Fordyce bound for Crossett over the F&P's former Rock Island trackage.
Photo Date:  9/25/1982  Upload Date: 6/4/2010 8:08:00 PM
Location:  Fordyce, AR
Author:  Paul H. Oliver, Jr.
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  FP 1504(SW1500) ADN 1810(GP10)
Views:  1644   Comments: 0
AD&N 1811 and 1816
Title:  AD&N 1811 and 1816
Description:  Ashley Drew & Northern GP10 1811 and GP28 1816 were next to the Arkansas & Louisiana Missouri office at Bastrop, Louisiana. The 1811 had been built as Illinois Centrcl GP9 9201, while the 1816 was originally Mississippi Central 211 and then Illinois Central 9441.
Photo Date:  1/25/1992  Upload Date: 7/20/2019 12:26:50 PM
Location:  Bastrop, LA
Author:  TOM BLACKWELL photo
Categories:  Scenic
Locomotives:  ADN 1816(GP28) ADN 1811(GP10) ADN 1816(GP28) ADN 1811(GP10)
Views:  1289   Comments: 1
LDRR GP10 1850
Title:  LDRR GP10 1850
Description:  Louisiana & Delta GP10 1850 was tied up at Schriever, Louisiana, with the Highway 20 overpass in the background.
Photo Date:  8/16/2007  Upload Date: 11/14/2022 11:03:54 AM
Location:  Schriever, LA
Author:  LEO PERSICK image
Categories:  Scenic
Locomotives:  LDRR 1850(GP10)
Views:  398   Comments: 0
L&DRR GP10 1851
Title:  L&DRR GP10 1851
Description:  Louisiana & Delta GP10 1851 was parked at the railroad’s headquarters in New Iberia, Louisiana still wearing the paint scheme of its previous owner, the Mountain Laurel Railroad (MNL). The unit was originally Illinois Central GP9 9061, built in December 1954. It was rebuilt by the Illinois Central Gulf into GP9U 8119 in February 1975, then sold as MNL 13 in February 1992. After Genesee & Wyoming Industries bought the MNL it was transferred to the L&D in January 1997, where it operated as MNL 13 for a while, before being renumbered L&D 1851.
Photo Date:  4/22/2006  Upload Date: 1/9/2020 4:51:12 PM
Location:  New Iberia, LA
Author:  TOM BLACKWELL photo
Categories:  Roster
Locomotives:  LDRR 1851(GP10)
Views:  634   Comments: 1
ADM GP10 7596
Title:  ADM GP10 7596
Description:  Archer-Daniels-Midland Co. GP10 7596 was at their grain elevator at Reserve, Louisiana. This is along the Mississippi River and the Canadian National between Baton Rouge and New Orleans. The locomotive had been built as Pennsylvania 7261 in November 1959 under EMD serial no. 24313. It was subsequently Penn Central 7261 and then Conrail 7261, and was remanufactured by the Illinois Central Gulf’s PADUCAH SHOPS into Conrail GP10 7596 in 1978. Conrail retired it on 30 October 1995 and it eventually went to ADM, and was subsequently sold to Railserve (RSSX) in 2016. Notice that there were no steps at the other end of the locomotive!
Photo Date:  4/6/2002  Upload Date: 9/19/2021 6:54:05 PM
Location:  Reserve, LA
Author:  TOM BLACKWELL image
Categories:  Roster
Locomotives:  ADM 7596(GP10)
Views:  496   Comments: 0
ICG GP10 8000
Title:  ICG GP10 8000
Description:  Illinois Central Gulf GP10 8000 was in Meridian, Mississippi. The locomotive had been built in April 1955 as IC 9116 and was rebuilt into GP10 8000 by the ICG in October 1975.
Photo Date:  5/12/1979  Upload Date: 6/14/2009 8:56:24 PM
Location:  Meridian, MS
Author:  Michael Palmieri
Categories:  Roster
Locomotives:  ICG 8000(GP10)
Views:  1349   Comments: 0
ICG and Amtrak
Title:  ICG and Amtrak
Description:  A crewman on ICG 8000 steps outside to take in the sight and sounds of the northbound CRESCENT as it accelerates away from the Meridian depot. Amtrak No. 20 has E9's 408 and 420 sandwiching Southern E8 6905.
Photo Date:  5/12/1979  Upload Date: 1/7/2010 10:53:12 AM
Location:  Meridian, MS
Author:  Michael Palmieri
Categories:  Yard,Passenger
Locomotives:  ICG 8000(GP10) AMTK 408(E9A)
Views:  2849   Comments: 4
ICG 8008
Title:  ICG 8008
Description:  Ma|s Yard
Photo Date:  12/25/1979  Upload Date: 6/14/2009 6:20:27 PM
Location:  New Orleans, LA
Author:  Michael Palmieri
Categories:  Roster
Locomotives:  ICG 8008(GP10)
Views:  1041   Comments: 0
GMSR Geeps
Title:  GMSR Geeps
Description:  Shortly after the Gulf & Mississippi Railroad began operating on 10 July 1985, two of the five geeps which wore this sharp GM&O-like paint scheme were captured on film at Artesia, Mississippi. The GMSR only lasted until 14 April 1988, when it was acquired by MidSouth Rail and renamed SouthRail. These two units subsequently received a less striking paint scheme as MSRC 1058 and 1052. (approximate date)
Photo Date:  8/8/1985  Upload Date: 1/13/2018 5:46:52 PM
Location:  Artesia, MS
Author:  LOUIS R. SAILLARD photo
Categories:  Roster
Locomotives:  GMSR 8009(GP10) GMSR 8082(GP10)
Views:  1290   Comments: 1
IC GP10 8014
Title:  IC GP10 8014
Description:  Illinois Central GP10 8014 was parked at the end of the former Gulf, Mobile & Ohio branch in Covington, Louisiana.
Photo Date:  6/12/1980  Upload Date: 11/26/2007 8:37:00 AM
Location:  Covington, LA
Author:  Michael Palmieri
Categories:  Roster
Locomotives:  IC 8014(GP10)
Views:  1535   Comments: 3
ICG
Title:  ICG
Description:  IC GP10 8018 and train heading north along North Broadway Street, by the former IC depot.
Photo Date:  6/3/1985  Upload Date: 1/3/2010 5:30:16 PM
Location:  Natchez, MS
Author:  Michael Palmieri
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  IC 8018(GP10)
Views:  3625   Comments: 6
ICG
Title:  ICG
Description:  IC GP10 8018 and train heading north along North Broadway Street, by the former IC depot.
Photo Date:  6/3/1985  Upload Date: 1/3/2010 5:30:49 PM
Location:  Natchez, MS
Author:  Michael Palmieri
Categories:  Scenic,Station
Locomotives:  IC 8018(GP10)
Views:  1613   Comments: 1
ICG MS-9
Title:  ICG MS-9
Description:  Illinois Central Gulf train No. 269 -- also identified as symbol MS-9 -- heads west through Gibsland. The track in the foreground is the ICG-North Louisiana & Gulf interchange. The ICG-Louisiana & North West crossing is under the train's third car.
Photo Date:  2/10/1975  Upload Date: 8/23/2007 10:53:56 PM
Location:  Gibsland, LA
Author:  Michael Palmieri
Categories:  Scenic,Track,Action
Locomotives:  IC 9517(GP38AC) ICG 8021(GP10) IC 3004(GP40)
Views:  2730   Comments: 1
ICG Geeps
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:  756   Comments: 1
IC GP10 8023
Title:  IC GP10 8023
Description:  GP10 8023 rests next to the ICG turntable at Baton Rouge. Facing us are GP9 9325, GP10 8071 and GP40 3061.
Photo Date:  5/17/1979  Upload Date: 7/29/2010 4:26:14 PM
Location:  Baton Rouge, LA
Author:  Michael Palmieri
Categories: 
Locomotives:  IC 8023(GP10)
Views:  1242   Comments: 0
ICG GP10 8024
Title:  ICG GP10 8024
Description:  One of the Illinois Central Gulf's two dozen solid orange units was photographed at Mays Yard.
Photo Date:  12/25/1979  Upload Date: 7/27/2008 6:34:48 PM
Location:  New Orleans, LA
Author:  Michael Palmieri
Categories:  Roster
Locomotives:  ICG 8024(GP10)
Views:  1464   Comments: 1
ICG GP10 8029
Title:  ICG GP10 8029
Description:  Illinois Central Gulf GP10 8029 - along with solid orange GP38 9523 - was on a ballast train on the former Gulf Mobile & Ohio Shore Line Branch parked for the evening at Lacombe, Louisiana. All of the new ballast didn't help cut costs or generate revenue, as the branch was abandoned in 1991.
Photo Date:  9/11/1980  Upload Date: 10/13/2017 6:16:35 PM
Location:  Lacombe, LA
Author:  Michael Palmieri
Categories:  Roster
Locomotives:  ICG 8029(GP10)
Views:  688   Comments: 0
IC GP10 8033
Title:  IC GP10 8033
Description:  Illinois Central GP10 8033 was parked at the end of the former Gulf, Mobile & Ohio branch in Covington, Louisiana.
Photo Date:  10/13/1983  Upload Date: 6/14/2009 10:01:09 PM
Location:  Covington, LA
Author:  Michael Palmieri
Categories:  Roster
Locomotives:  IC 8033(GP10)
Views:  997   Comments: 0
West 27th Street
Title:  West 27th Street
Description:  IC GP10 8033 leads the twice-weekly Shore Line District local along West 27th Street in Covington, near the end of its 65-mile trip from Bogalusa. It was also near the end of the line for this branch. The track was abandoned in 1991 and this area doesn't look anything like this anymore! Today's train had six cars: bulkhead flats TOE 4085 and 4037 with building material for Poole Lumber Co., insulated box car (RBL) MRS 2091 with beer for Champagne Beverage Co., and empty pulpwood cars IC 1472, GM&O 4028 and GM&O 3615. The caboose was ICG 199320, the regular car on this run, built in January 1976.
Photo Date:  10/13/1983  Upload Date: 6/10/2009 3:23:08 PM
Location:  Covington, LA
Author:  Michael Palmieri
Categories:  Scenic
Locomotives:  IC 8033(GP10)
Views:  3171   Comments: 6
IC GP10 8056
Title:  IC GP10 8056
Description:  Illinois Central GP10 8056 was parked at the end of the former Gulf, Mobile & Ohio branch in Covington, Louisiana.
Photo Date:  6/8/1981  Upload Date: 6/14/2009 10:04:28 PM
Location:  Covington, LA
Author:  Michael Palmieri
Categories:  Roster
Locomotives:  IC 8056(GP10)
Views:  827   Comments: 0
ICG Power
Title:  ICG Power
Description:  Illinois Central Gulf GP9's 9325 and 9331, GP10 8071 and GP40 3061/SD40 6070 were at the railroad's engine terminal in Baton Rouge.
Photo Date:  5/17/1979  Upload Date: 7/29/2010 4:25:51 PM
Location:  Baton Rouge, LA
Author:  Michael Palmieri
Categories:  Yard
Locomotives:  IC 3061(GP40) IC 8071(GP10) IC 9325(GP9)
Views:  1834   Comments: 1
ICG Shop
Title:  ICG Shop
Description:  Illinois Central GP10 8100 and ICG GP38-2 9611 were among the locomotives being serviced in the former Gulf Mobile & Ohio PORTER SHOP in Mobile.
Photo Date:  9/12/1976  Upload Date: 12/8/2017 6:13:47 PM
Location:  Mobile, AL
Author:  PAUL H. OLIVER, JR. photo
Categories:  Yard
Locomotives:  IC 8100(GP10) ICG 9611(GP38-2)
Views:  1165   Comments: 1
ICG Gyralight
Title:  ICG Gyralight
Description:  Here was a closeup of the Gyralight on Illinois Central Gulf GP10 8105.
Photo Date:  9/17/1981  Upload Date: 4/4/2017 4:21:28 PM
Location:  Covington, LA
Author:  Michael Palmieri
Categories: 
Locomotives:  ICG 8105(GP10)
Views:  538   Comments: 0
ICG GP10 8105
Title:  ICG GP10 8105
Description:  Illinois Central Gulf GP10 8105 was parked at the end of the railroad’s SHORLINE BRANCH in Covington, Louisiana awaiting it return to Boaalusa the next morning. The locomotive had been built in in January 1957 as the IC 9245 and was remanufactured into the 8105 in August 1973.
Photo Date:  6/14/2009  Upload Date: 6/14/2009 6:22:36 PM
Location:  Covington, LA
Author:  Michael Palmieri
Categories:  Roster
Locomotives:  ICG 8105(GP10)
Views:  942   Comments: 0
ICG Geeps
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)
Views:  1658   Comments: 2
ICG (5)
Title:  ICG (5)
Description:  Illinois Central (Gulf) GP10 8116 was parked at Good Hope, as a train approached on the right.
Photo Date:  12/15/1983  Upload Date: 12/6/2017 4:27:26 PM
Location:  Good Hope, LA
Author:  Michael Palmieri
Categories:  Scenic
Locomotives:  IC 8116(GP10)
Views:  685   Comments: 2
ICG
Title:  ICG
Description:  GP10's 8120 and 8321 are making good time as they head east with a short train on the railroad's Vicksburg-Shreveport line.
Photo Date:  5/20/1985  Upload Date: 1/2/2010 1:26:38 PM
Location:  Doyline, LA
Author:  Michael Palmieri
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  ICG 8120(GP10)
Views:  2063   Comments: 2
Servicing Facility
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)
Views:  1248   Comments: 0
ICG GP10 8130
Title:  ICG GP10 8130
Description:  Illinois Central Gulf GP10!8130 was tied up across from the station at McComb, Mississippi. The locomotive had been built as Illinois Central GP9 9324 in December 1957 and was rebuilt by the ICG in April 1977.
Photo Date:  4/9/1983  Upload Date: 6/15/2009 5:25:16 PM
Location:  McComb, MS
Author:  Michael Palmieri
Categories:  Roster
Locomotives:  ICG 8130(GP10)
Views:  883   Comments: 0
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:  2023   Comments: 1
IC GP10 8146
Title:  IC GP10 8146
Description:  Illinois Central GP10 8146 and two empty Southern Railway insulated box cars from a local beer distributor were tied up just north of the former Gulf Mobile & Ohio depot in Covington, Louisiana. The train was all made up, and the next morning a station wagon would bring a crew down from Bogalusa to take the train back there.
Photo Date:  9/26/1985  Upload Date: 4/29/2017 12:51:32 PM
Location:  Covington, LA
Author:  Michael Palmieri
Categories:  Scenic
Locomotives:  IC 8146(GP10)
Views:  860   Comments: 1
ICG Wreck 4
Title:  ICG Wreck 4
Description:  On 1 April 1975 the Illinois Central Gulf local heading south on the former Gulf Mobile & Ohio main line between Bogalusa and Slidell, Louisiana was diverted into the spur at Florenville and collided with some stored cars. Lead unit 8158 had been rebuilt from GP9 9158 in May 1968. After the wreck it returned to the railroad's shop at Paducah, Kentucky for some major work and re-entered service in April 1977 as ICG 8126. As bad as the damage was, there were no fatalities. Engineer Luther Walley survived on the walkway behind the cab, while another trainman was in the trailing unit.
Photo Date:  4/5/1975  Upload Date: 1/16/2010 10:01:26 AM
Location:  Florenville, LA
Author:  Michael Palmieri
Categories:  Wreck
Locomotives:  IC 8158(GP10) ICG 8290(GP10)
Views:  3567   Comments: 5
ICG Wreck 5
Title:  ICG Wreck 5
Description:  On 1 April 1975 the Illinois Central Gulf local heading south on the former Gulf Mobile & Ohio main line between Bogalusa and Slidell, Louisiana was diverted into the spur at Florenville and collided with some stored cars. The train was powered by a pair of GP10's: IC 8158 and ICG 8290. Engineer Luther Walley survived on the walkway behind the cab, while another trainman was in the trailing unit. The bridge is Louisiana Highway 36, built in 1937.
Photo Date:  4/5/1975  Upload Date: 1/16/2010 10:02:00 AM
Location:  Florenville, LA
Author:  Michael Palmieri
Categories:  Wreck
Locomotives:  IC 8158(GP10) ICG 8290(GP10)
Views:  4355   Comments: 3
ICG Local
Title:  ICG Local
Description:  Illinois Central GP10 8167 was on an outbound train on the ICG’s SHORE LINE DISTRICT in Mandeville, Louisiana as it made its way from Covington, to Bogalusa. The loaded pulpwood cars on the front of the train had been picked up at a woodyard about half way between Covington and Abita Springs, and were on their way to the Crown Zellerbach paper mill in Bogalusa. Pulpwood was also loaded at Lacombe, and this would be picked up further along the line. This was a former Gulf Mobile & Ohio branch. (approximate date of photo)
Photo Date:  1/1/1974  Upload Date: 9/15/2020 10:09:51 AM
Location:  Mandeville, LA
Author:  JAMES H. SELZER, JR. photo
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  IC 8167(GP10)
Views:  500   Comments: 0
ICG Local
Title:  ICG Local
Description:  Illinois Central GP10 8167 was on an outbound train on the ICG’s SHORE LINE DISTRICT in Mandeville, Louisiana as it made its way from Covington, to Bogalusa. The loaded pulpwood cars on the front of the train had been picked up at a woodyard about half way between Covington and Abita Springs, and were on their way to the Crown Zellerbach paper mill in Bogalusa. Pulpwood was also loaded at Lacombe, and this would be picked up further along the line. This was a former Gulf Mobile & Ohio branch. (approximate date of photo)
Photo Date:  1/1/1974  Upload Date: 9/15/2020 10:11:23 AM
Location:  Mandeville, LA
Author:  JAMES H. SELZER, JR. photo
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  IC 8167(GP10)
Views:  582   Comments: 1
IC 8177
Title:  IC 8177
Description:  This ICG train had come into Baton Rouge from the south and was parked at the south end of North Baton Rouge Yard, on the south leg of the wye connection with the line to Hammond. The locomotives were IC GP10 8177, Precision GP9 1703 and GM&O GP38 702.
Photo Date:  2/8/1979  Upload Date: 2/15/2010 12:24:51 PM
Location:  Baton Rouge, LA
Author:  Michael Palmieri
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  IC 8177(GP10)
Views:  1233   Comments: 0
IC GP10 8179
Title:  IC GP10 8179
Description:  Illinois Central GP10 8179 was in Meridian, Mississippi.
Photo Date:  10/5/1980  Upload Date: 6/14/2009 10:06:59 PM
Location:  Meridian, MS
Author:  Michael Palmieri
Categories:  Roster
Locomotives:  IC 8179(GP10)
Views:  708   Comments: 0
Two Trains
Title:  Two Trains
Description:  About a mile west of Abita Springs, at Schoen Road, the ICG Shore Line District served two customers. USS Agri-Chem, on the right, received limestone and agricultural chemicals in box cars and covered hoppers, and was served by northward trains. Triangle Timber, behind me and on the opposite side of the main line, shipped pulpwood and was worked in the other direction.

Finding more than one train on the branch was really unusual, and was usually the result of a work train on the line. This view facing east from Schoen Road was taken on a Thursday afternoon, a normal day for the northward local, whose locomotive is in the siding. The 8308, along with GP30 2269, had arrived here the previous afternoon with 23 empty hopper cars and caboose 199318. The train had been dumping ballast along the line and the crew parked their train here, where they were picked up by a company car and returned home to Bogalusa.

Earlier this afternoon the regular northward local -- with GP10 8183 -- pulled up behind the ballast train and coupled to its caboose. The company station wagon, which had come down from Bogalusa to bring the crew back home, brought the crew here to get on the 8308. They pulled the combined train forward, set out the local's engine on the siding, then shoved the combined train back on the main line until everything looked like this. The crew finished whatever they were doing when they returned from Bogalusa on Friday morning to complete their northward trip and then take the train back home. Eleven years later, the branch was abandoned.
Photo Date:  5/22/1980  Upload Date: 1/21/2010 10:15:30 AM
Location:  Abita Springs, LA
Author:  Michael Palmieri
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  IC 8308(GP10) ICG 8183(GP10)
Views:  1661   Comments: 2
ICG Geeps
Title:  ICG Geeps
Description:  Illinois Central Gulf GP8 7715 and IC GP10 8191 were parked across from the old GM&O depot at Bogalusa, awaiting their call to duty on the Tylertown Local. This train ran south from Bogalusa seven miles to Rio and then worked its way up the Bogue Chitto Branch 42 miles to Tylertown, Mississippi. (approximate day)
Photo Date:  3/15/1974  Upload Date: 2/25/2017 3:16:50 PM
Location:  Bogalusa, LA
Author:  James H. Selzer, Jr. photo
Categories:  Yard
Locomotives:  ICG 7715(GP8) IC 8191(GP10)
Views:  958   Comments: 3
IC GP10 8199
Title:  IC GP10 8199
Description:  Illinois Central GP10 8199 was parked at the end of the former Gulf, Mobile & Ohio branch in Covington, Louisiana.
Photo Date:  5/13/1982  Upload Date: 6/14/2009 10:10:50 PM
Location:  Covington, LA
Author:  Michael Palmieri
Categories:  Roster
Locomotives:  IC 8199(GP10)
Views:  1103   Comments: 1
ICG GP10 8202
Title:  ICG GP10 8202
Description:  CG GP10 8202 was about to cross Hoffman Road -- between Mandeville and Abita Springs, Louisiana -- on the now-abandoned ex-GM&O Shore Line Branch. The train was the twice-wjekly local from Bogalusa to Covington. In the background was former Illinois Central 1-compartment/1-drawing-room / 3-double-bedroom / tavern / lounge car GENERAL JACKSON, built by Pullman-Standard in Apvil 1942 for the PANAMA LIMITED. It and baggage car 755 were someone's vacation home. The former railroad right-of-way is now the Tammany Trace trail, while the cars were eventually purchased by Iowa Pacific Holdings and moved to Colorado.
Photo Date:  4/16/1979  Upload Date: 8/11/2009 10:32:04 AM
Location:  Abita Springs, LA
Author:  Michael Palmieri
Categories:  Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  ICG 8202(GP10)
Views:  2178   Comments: 1
ICG 8202
Title:  ICG 8202
Description:  After passing the Covington depot heading due north, the ICG Shore Line Branch made a 90 degree turn to the west right in the middle of the P&W Industries scrap yard. Here is the northward running through the scrap yard. Today's caboose was ICG 199034.
Photo Date:  4/16/1979  Upload Date: 1/21/2010 10:11:51 AM
Location:  Covington, LA
Author:  Michael Palmieri
Categories:  Scenic
Locomotives:  ICG 8202(GP10)
Views:  1295   Comments: 3
ICG 8202
Title:  ICG 8202
Description:  The ICG's northward Shore Line Branch local passes though Abita Springs, Louisiana -- milepost 62.7. There was once a depot here; but by this time, Abita was just the location of a 4-car siding. This train has 15 cars: four plug door box cars, one covered hopper for USS Agri-Chem, five empty pulpwood cars for Triangle Timber, and five empty gondolas for the P&W scrap yard, plus caboose 199034. It picked up one MKT 50-foot box car here in Abita Springs, and then set out the covered hopper about a mile down the track.
Photo Date:  4/16/1979  Upload Date: 1/21/2010 10:14:26 AM
Location:  Abita Springs, LA
Author:  Michael Palmieri
Categories:  Scenic
Locomotives:  ICG 8202(GP10)
Views:  1300   Comments: 1
ICG GP10 8202
Title:  ICG GP10 8202
Description:  Illinois Central Gulf GP10 8202 was on the Shore Line Branch local, between Abita Springs and the end of the line in Covington. The train had just picked up that MKT box car in Abita Springs, so it had 15 cars and caboose 199034.
Photo Date:  4/16/1979  Upload Date: 2/25/2017 3:35:54 PM
Location:  Abita Springs, LA
Author:  Michael Palmieri
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  ICG 8202(GP10)
Views:  1037   Comments: 3


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