| Illinois Central Gulf GP38-2 9542 - originally Gulf Mobile & Ohio 702 - was powering the twice-weekly local over the former GM&O SHORELINE BRANCH at the Louisiana Highway 59 crossing between Mandeville and Abita Springs. The train had eight cars and a caboose: two empty Crown-Zellerbach pulpwood cars, an L&N box car, three loaded covered hoppers (ATSF, IC, IC), a loaded Southern bulkhead flat car, ICG caboose 199034 and an empty NAHX (Imco) covered hopper. |