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| Title: |
IC SD40A 6011 |
| Description: |
An especially dirty Illinois Central SD40A 6011 sits outside the diesel shop at Mays Yard. The engine still has its L-shaped windshield and dynamic brakes, but has lost its Gyralight. Only 18 SD40A's were built, all for the IC in 1969 and 1970. They utilized the longer frame of the SDP45, so they could have 5,000-gallon fuel tanks. The switch engine in the background is SW1M number 13. |
| Photo Date: |
11/23/1985 Upload Date: 2/10/2010 1:15:19 PM |
| Location: |
New Orleans, LA |
| Author: |
Michael Palmieri |
| Categories: |
Roster |
| Locomotives: |
IC 6011(SD40A) |
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1247 Comments: 2 |
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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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1642 Comments: 3 |
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