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ICG Milepost N64.4 |
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This was the former Gulf Mobile & Ohio station at Rio, Louisiana. This was along the Illinois Central Gulf's BOGALUSA DISTRICT seven miles south of Bogalusa and 55 miles from New Orleans. There never was much at Rio, but up until 1980 it was the junction where the 40-mile BOGUE CHITTO DISTRICT from Tylertown, Mississippi connected with the main line to New Orleans. The main line, in the foreground, was previously the NEW ORLEANS DISTRICT of the GM&O's LOUISIANA SUBDIVISION, and was abandoned by the IC in 1994. |
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2/1/1975 Upload Date: 5/22/2017 10:18:20 PM |
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Rio, LA |
| Author: |
Michael Palmieri |
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| Title: |
ICG Engine House |
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Illinois Central Gulf GP8 7705 was sticking out of the railroad's recently-constructed engine house at Bogalusa, which replaced a former GM&O loco shed at this same location. The former Bogalusa depot was on the other side of the geep, and the former freight house was behind the sand tower. A few years later, the railroad replaced this engine house with a new one south of here, at South Yard. |
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2/1/1975 Upload Date: 12/22/2016 11:22:43 AM |
| Location: |
Bogalusa, LA |
| Author: |
Michael Palmieri |
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Yard |
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ICG 7705(GP8) |
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Former GM&O Depot |
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This was the New Orleans-Great Northern's passenger depot in Bogalusa, Louisiana. It also housed the railroad's dispatchers, and was subsequently used by the Gulf Mobile & Northern, Gulf Mobile & Ohio and the Illinois Central Gulf. The ICG stopped using it shortly after the 1972 merger, and it was placed on the Nation Register of Historic Places in 1980. The building on the left was the freight house. |
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2/1/1975 Upload Date: 11/17/2016 10:04:55 PM |
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Bogalusa, LA |
| Author: |
Michael Palmieri |
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Former GM&O Freight House |
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This freight house had been built by the New Orleans-Great Northern Railroad, and was subsequently used by the Gulf Mobile & Northern, Gulf Mobjle & Ohio and Illinois Central Gulf. It is now privately-owned and has been fixed up for commercial use. |
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2/1/1975 Upload Date: 11/18/2016 6:10:04 PM |
| Location: |
Bogalusa, LA |
| Author: |
Michael Palmieri |
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| Title: |
TO&E D4 |
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Texas Oklahoma & Eastern SW900 number D4 was parked outside the DeQueen & Eastern depot at Dierks, Arkansas. The D4 was originally lettered D&E, but was subsequently transferred to the TO&E. The unit was serial number 19528, built in May 1954, and it was frame number 6529-2, even though this order was for just one locomotive! |
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2/9/1975 Upload Date: 6/15/2017 6:21:05 PM |
| Location: |
Dierks, AR |
| Author: |
Michael Palmieri |
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Station |
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TOE D4(SW900) |
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| Title: |
SP Speed Board |
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This was a view looking west from the Southern Pacific's Avondale Yard just west of New Orleans, back when the east end of the SUNSET ROUTE was still jointed rail. The track on the right was the Missouri Pacific's former Texas & Pacific main line. |
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3/8/1975 Upload Date: 4/4/2017 4:03:12 PM |
| Location: |
Avondale, LA |
| Author: |
Michael Palmieri |
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| Title: |
Southern Depot |
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When this photo was taken, the Southern Railway depot at Slidell was still an open train order office. Now owned by the City of Slidell, the building is still used by Amtrak and houses a couple of businesses. |
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5/10/1975 Upload Date: 5/7/2010 7:19:28 PM |
| Location: |
Slidell, LA |
| Author: |
Michael Palmieri |
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| Title: |
L&N Station |
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This was the former Louisville & Nashville station at Pascagoula, Mississippi. |
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5/25/1975 Upload Date: 5/16/2018 5:12:54 PM |
| Location: |
Pascagoula, MS |
| Author: |
Michael Palmieri |
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| Title: |
L&N Station |
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This was the Louisville & Nashville station in Pensacola, four years after passenger service ended. There was a small collection of railroad equipment at the far left, and the building was subsequently incorporated in a hotel. |
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5/26/1975 Upload Date: 4/27/2017 6:12:27 PM |
| Location: |
Pensacola, FL |
| Author: |
Michael Palmieri |
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| Title: |
L&N Station |
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This building was opened as the Louisville & Nashville passenger station at Mobile, Alabama in 1955, and a few years later the Mobile Division officers, dispatchers and other personnel moved in on the second floor. This building was just across the tracks from the previous station and division headquarters, which had been right along Mobile Bay. The last L&N passenger train stopped here on the morning of 1 May 1971, the day Amtrak began operating most of the country's passenger trains. There was no passenger service here for several years, but Amtrak subsequently used the station for the GULF COAST LIMITED, GULF BREEZE and SUNSET LIMITED. The L&N became a part of the Seaboard System in December 1982, and after CSX was formed in 1986 the railroad began transferring employees elsewhere. By the time Hurricane Katrina flooded the building in August 2005 only a few railroad employees were still occupying it. The building was subsequently condemned by the City of Mobile and razed. |
| Photo Date: |
5/26/1975 Upload Date: 3/31/2017 9:53:13 AM |
| Location: |
Mobile, AL |
| Author: |
Michael Palmieri |
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| Title: |
BN 6385 |
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This southbound Burlington Northern train was on the Fort Worth & Denver-Quannah Acme & Pacific interchange at Acme, Texas with SD40-2's 6385 and 6913 and Colorado & Southern SD7's 815 and 810. It left with 28 cars and FW&D caboose 157. |
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8/2/1975 Upload Date: 8/5/2017 10:18:06 PM |
| Location: |
Acme, TX |
| Author: |
Michael Palmieri |
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Action |
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BN 6385(SD40-2) |
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| Title: |
IC X2380 |
| Description: |
The Illinois Central provided camp car X2380 as a residence for an injured section hand at Hammond, Louisiana, who then functioned as a watchman/switch lamp tender in the yard there. After this gentleman passed away around 1980 the car was scrapped. |
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3/3/1976 Upload Date: 9/18/2017 3:16:56 PM |
| Location: |
Hammond, LA |
| Author: |
Michael Palmieri |
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Scenic |
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| Title: |
Former Depot |
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Former ICG/GM&O depot in use as a police station. It burned down a few years later. |
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4/24/1976 Upload Date: 8/2/2010 4:05:11 PM |
| Location: |
Franklinton, LA |
| Author: |
Michael Palmieri |
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| Title: |
ICG Station (1) |
| Description: |
This was a view of the Illinois Central Gulf station in Jackson, Mississippi while the AMERICAN FREEDOM TRAIN was on display. |
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4/25/1976 Upload Date: 5/16/2018 4:55:36 PM |
| Location: |
Jackson, MS |
| Author: |
Michael Palmieri |
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| Title: |
ICG Station (2) |
| Description: |
This was a view of the Illinois Central Gulf station in Jackson, Mississippi while the AMERICAN FREEDOM TRAIN was on display. The yellow-orange automobile parked in front of the building was a BRICKLIN. |
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4/25/1976 Upload Date: 5/16/2018 5:01:26 PM |
| Location: |
Jackson, MS |
| Author: |
Michael Palmieri |
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| Title: |
ICG Station (3) |
| Description: |
This was a view of the Illinois Central Gulf station in Jackson, Mississippi while the AMERICAN FREEDOM TRAIN was on display |
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4/25/1976 Upload Date: 5/16/2018 5:02:02 PM |
| Location: |
Jackson, MS |
| Author: |
Michael Palmieri |
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| Title: |
ICG Station (4) |
| Description: |
his was a view of the Illinois Central Gulf station in Jackson, Mississippi while the AMERICAN FREEDOM TRAIN was on display |
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4/25/1976 Upload Date: 5/16/2018 5:02:37 PM |
| Location: |
Jackson, MS |
| Author: |
Michael Palmieri |
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| Title: |
ICG Scale House |
| Description: |
This was the Illinois Central Gulf scale hose at Good Hope, along the former Yazoo & Mississippi Valley between New Orleans and Baton Rouge. |
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5/2/1976 Upload Date: 12/6/2017 4:02:56 PM |
| Location: |
Good Hope, LA |
| Author: |
Michael Palmieri |
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| Title: |
ICG Old Depot |
| Description: |
This was the Illinois Central Gulf station along the Baton Rouge District (former Yazoo & Mississippi Valley) at Good Hope, Louisiana. |
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5/2/1976 Upload Date: 12/6/2017 4:09:06 PM |
| Location: |
Good Hope, LA |
| Author: |
Michael Palmieri |
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| Title: |
Bonnet Carre Trestle |
| Description: |
This was the view from the rear of the southbound AMERICAN FREEDOM TRAIN as it crossed one of the Illinois Central Gulf's two trestles over the Bonnet Carre Floodway west of New Orleans. This was on the Baton Rouge District (former Yazoo & Mississippi Valley line) between mileposts 429.5 and 432.3. The Mississippi River was off to the left, while the KCS trestle, U.S. 61 bridge, ICG McComb District trestle, I-10 bridge and Lake Pontchartrain are off to the right. |
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5/2/1976 Upload Date: 5/8/2017 12:17:58 PM |
| Location: |
Norco, LA |
| Author: |
Michael Palmieri |
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| Title: |
Diner |
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6/2/1976 Upload Date: 11/11/2009 11:29:28 AM |
| Location: |
Good Hope, LA |
| Author: |
Michael Palmieri |
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| Title: |
SP Station |
| Description: |
This was the abandoned Southern Pacific station at Franklin, Louisiana. Even though Franklin is the seat of St. Mary Parish, the SUNSET LIMITED no longer stopped here. |
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8/6/1976 Upload Date: 12/6/2017 3:16:14 PM |
| Location: |
Franklin, LA |
| Author: |
Michael Palmieri |
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| Title: |
Depot |
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Schriever is located on the SUNSET ROUTE 55 miles west of New Orleans. The depot's use as a train order office ended in about 1985, but it still is a functioning railroad structure. It is now owned by the BNSF and is used by Amtrak as a stop for the SUNSET. |
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8/6/1976 Upload Date: 3/5/2010 9:25:54 AM |
| Location: |
Schriever, LA |
| Author: |
Michael Palmieri |
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| Title: |
Southern Railway No. 193 |
| Description: |
A group of railfans were watching the cabooses of Southern Railway train No. 193 roll across the Richburg Road grade crossing atop of Richburg Hill. This is at the top of a six-mile climb out of the Leaf River valley in Hattiesburg, with a maximum grade of .75 percent. From the grade crossing, the line is on a steadily descending grade foM the next six miles towards Purvis, so the train was moving along quite nicely by the time the cabooses passed here. No. 193 was the run-through train with the Southern Pacific between Birmingham and Houston via New Orleans. |
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9/11/1976 Upload Date: 2/6/2019 12:33:38 PM |
| Location: |
Richburg, MS |
| Author: |
Michael Palmieri |
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| Title: |
ICG South Yard |
| Description: |
Illinois Central Gulf GP8 7736 was parked under the sand tower at the railroad's recently-completed engine terminal at South Yard, in Bogalusa, Louisiana. |
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9/24/1976 Upload Date: 12/22/2016 3:33:13 PM |
| Location: |
Bogalusa, LA |
| Author: |
Michael Palmieri |
| Categories: |
Yard |
| Locomotives: |
ICG 7736(GP8) |
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| Title: |
ICG South Yard |
| Description: |
This was a view facing north on the Illinois Central Gulf (former Gulf Mobile & Ohio) main line at South Yard in Bogalusa, Louisiana. GP8 7736 and GP10 8250 were parked at the recently-completed engine terminal which replaced one further north, across from the former GM&O depot and despatchers office. |
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9/24/1976 Upload Date: 12/22/2016 3:37:55 PM |
| Location: |
Bogalusa, LA |
| Author: |
Michael Palmieri |
| Categories: |
Yard,Track |
| Locomotives: |
ICG 7736(GP8) |
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| Title: |
Engine Area |
| Description: |
This is what the locomotive servincing area looked like behind the Southern Pacific's depot at Baldwin, Louisiana. A pair of engines were kept here to work the Cypremort and Bayou Sale Branch locals. Around 1980 this track was removed and the area cleaned up. After that, the local power was parked on a track across from the depot and serviced elsewhere. |
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1/26/1977 Upload Date: 2/6/2010 5:25:04 PM |
| Location: |
Baldwin, LA |
| Author: |
Michael Palmieri |
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| Title: |
ICG Depot |
| Description: |
This was the southeast corner of the Illinois Central Gulf (former IC) depot at Arcadia/ Louisiana, on the line from Meridian to Shreveport, and the track on the other side was filled with tank cars for local business! The building is still standing and has been fixed up, but it is no longer owned by a railroad. |
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2/7/1977 Upload Date: 11/30/2016 9:24:36 PM |
| Location: |
Arcadia, LA |
| Author: |
Michael Palmieri |
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| Title: |
ICG Yard (1) |
| Description: |
This was the Illinois Central Gulf yard at Winnfield, Louisiana. This property had previously belonged to the Tremont & Gulf. |
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2/21/1977 Upload Date: 12/6/2017 3:53:52 PM |
| Location: |
Winnfield, LA |
| Author: |
Michael Palmieri |
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Yard |
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| Title: |
ICG Yard (2) |
| Description: |
This was the Illinois Central Gulf yard office at Winnfield, Louisiana. The property had previously belonged to the Tremont & Gulf. |
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2/21/1977 Upload Date: 12/6/2017 3:58:38 PM |
| Location: |
Winnfield, LA |
| Author: |
Michael Palmieri |
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Yard |
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681 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Depot |
| Description: |
This was the joint Rock Island-North Louisiana & Gulf depot at Hodge, Louisiana. |
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2/21/1977 Upload Date: 5/7/2010 7:14:53 PM |
| Location: |
Hodge, LA |
| Author: |
Michael Palmieri |
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| Title: |
ICG Office |
| Description: |
This was the rear of the Illinois Central Gulf train order office and freight house at Ruston, Louisiana. The signal on the right protected the Rock Island crossing on the other side of the building. This is now the KCS-NS MERIDIAN SPEEDWAY |
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2/21/1977 Upload Date: 1/30/2010 5:40:50 PM |
| Location: |
Ruston, LA |
| Author: |
Michael Palmieri |
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Track |
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| Title: |
ICG-CRI&P Crossing |
| Description: |
This was the crossing of the Illinois Central Gulf line from Meridian to Shreveport -- now the KCS MERIDIAN SPEEDWAY -- with the Rock Island line from Little Rock to Alexandria and Eunice, Louisiana. As a result of its bankruptcy, the Rock Island stopped running trains on 31 March 1980. ICG Mississippi Division Shreveport District Bulletin Number 57, dated 8 October 1981, stated that at 12:01 P.M. on that date the approach and home signals controlling this crossing would be de-activated because of the removal of the crossing. |
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2/21/1977 Upload Date: 1/30/2010 5:41:07 PM |
| Location: |
Ruston, LA |
| Author: |
Michael Palmieri |
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| Title: |
Rock Island Frieght House |
| Description: |
The Rock Island train order office and freight house in Ruston, Louisiana was located at 301 West Alabama Avenue. The Rock Island ended all operations on 31 March 1980, but the line from Ruston north to Eldorado, Arkansas was acquired by the South Central Arkansas Railroad (SCK) in May 1982. In late 1983, the East Camden & Highland succeeded the SCK as operator of the line between Lillie, Louisiana and El Dorado, and the track between Lillie and Ruston was abandoned. This building became a branch of the Community Trust Bank in 1990. |
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2/21/1977 Upload Date: 1/30/2010 5:41:25 PM |
| Location: |
Ruston, LA |
| Author: |
Michael Palmieri |
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| Title: |
ICG Sand Tower |
| Description: |
Illinois Central Gulf Sand tower, amid the refineries surrounding the Baton Rouge District at Good Hope, Louisiana. |
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10/4/1977 Upload Date: 12/6/2017 4:22:34 PM |
| Location: |
Good Hope, LA |
| Author: |
Michael Palmieri |
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Track |
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428 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
ICG (3) |
| Description: |
Illinois Central Gulf GP8's 7999 and 7722 were tied up across from the depot at Good Hope, Louisiana. |
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10/4/1977 Upload Date: 12/6/2017 4:14:33 PM |
| Location: |
Good Hope, LA |
| Author: |
Michael Palmieri |
| Categories: |
Yard |
| Locomotives: |
ICG 7999(GP8) |
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655 Comments: 2 |
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| Title: |
ICG Old Depot |
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10/4/1977 Upload Date: 11/11/2009 11:33:39 AM |
| Location: |
Good Hope, LA |
| Author: |
Michael Palmieri |
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Station |
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715 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
ICG Depot |
| Description: |
The sideways train order signals show that the Illinois Central Gulf station at Reserve, Louisiana was no longer an active train order office. |
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10/4/1977 Upload Date: 2/2/2010 4:25:03 AM |
| Location: |
Reserve, LA |
| Author: |
Michael Palmieri |
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Station |
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718 Comments: 1 |
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| Title: |
ICG N58.3 |
| Description: |
The was a view of the Illinois Central Gulf track between Bogalusa and Slidell at Bush, Louisiana. This had been the Gulf Mobile & Ohio main line into New Orleans, and was abandoned by the ICG in 1994. |
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3/20/1978 Upload Date: 6/3/2017 8:23:25 PM |
| Location: |
Bush, LA |
| Author: |
Michael Palmieri |
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Track |
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381 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
ICG N61.8 |
| Description: |
This was the Illinois Central Gulf track at Sun, Louisiana, milepost N61.8 on the Bogalusa District. This track was previously the New Orleans District of the Gulf Mobile & Ohio's Louisiana Subdivision, and was abandoned by the IC in 1994. |
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3/20/1978 Upload Date: 5/8/2017 6:18:22 PM |
| Location: |
Sun, LA |
| Author: |
Michael Palmieri |
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Scenic,Track |
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387 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
SP Depot |
| Description: |
Passenger service ended at Baldwin in 1963, when the last remnant of the ARGONAUT was discontinued; but the depot remained in use as a train order office until the introduction of Direct Traffic Control in 1985. It was also the base for local crews working the Cypremort and Bayou Sale branches, and the branch line locals tied up here. When this photo was taken, the branches were usually worked by upgraded 1200-horsepower EMD switchers, such as SW1200E 2315 seen here. Unfortunately, the area where the locomotives were parked and serviced now looked looked like a toxic waste dump; so around 1980 the tracks behind the depot were removed and the ground cleaned up. After that, the railroad began using geeps on the branches; and parking them on a track across from the depot. The Louisiana & Delta bought the branches and the depot on 16 March 1987. |
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3/24/1978 Upload Date: 2/6/2010 5:25:40 PM |
| Location: |
Baldwin, LA |
| Author: |
Michael Palmieri |
| Categories: |
Station |
| Locomotives: |
SP 2315(SW1200) |
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1322 Comments: 2 |
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| Title: |
KCS M.P. 811 |
| Description: |
KCS (L&A) depot at Gonzales, Louisiana. |
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3/25/1978 Upload Date: 8/10/2015 12:34:37 PM |
| Location: |
Gonzales, LA |
| Author: |
Michael M. Palmieri |
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Station |
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612 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Texaco Gas Plant |
| Description: |
These were the four tank car loading tracks at Texaco's PARADIS GAS PROCESSING PLANT, located along the Southern Pacific's SUNSET ROUTE about 20 miles west of New Orleans. The name of the siding which serves this facility is VALLIER, at milepost 27.1. |
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3/30/1978 Upload Date: 4/10/2018 4:10:55 PM |
| Location: |
Paradis, LA |
| Author: |
Michael Palmieri |
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372 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
ICG |
| Description: |
This views looks north along the Illinois Central Gulf's Baton Rouge District from Louisiana Highway 73. After the IC built its Geismar Yard, the railroad identified this location as Old Geismar. |
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3/8/1979 Upload Date: 8/9/2010 2:55:11 PM |
| Location: |
Geismar, LA |
| Author: |
Michael Palmieri |
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Track |
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1082 Comments: 1 |
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| Title: |
SP Bridge |
| Description: |
The was facing south along Louisiana Highway 308 at Lafourche Crossing, milepost 51.64 on the SUNSET ROUTE. Bayou Lafourche is on the other side of the trees on the right, and Louisiana Highway 1 is on the other side of the bayou. Because the bayou is so narrow, the swing span was built with its center pier on the east bank. |
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4/19/1979 Upload Date: 12/22/2017 6:04:20 PM |
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Lafourche, LA |
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Michael Palmieri |
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Missouri Pacific Freight House |
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Opelousas is on the main line between New Orleans and Houston. The railroad through here was originally built by a subsidiary of the Frisco. |
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4/23/1979 Upload Date: 7/1/2007 4:37:48 PM |
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Opelousas, LA |
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Michael Palmieri |
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IC Centennial Marker |
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This was the Illinois Central centennial marker by the station at Hammond, Louisiana. The railroad placed a pair of these medallions at stations throughout its system to commemorate its 100th anniversary in 1951. Some of the bronze medals, such as this pair, were mounted on stones markers; while other pairs were placed directly on buildings. They are sometimes available for sale on-line. |
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5/3/1979 Upload Date: 10/23/2017 12:38:55 PM |
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Hammond, LA |
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Michael Palmieri |
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KCS M.P. 743 |
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Industry along the Kansas City Southern (L&A) at Batchelor, Louisiana. |
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8/30/1979 Upload Date: 8/10/2015 12:32:59 PM |
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Batchelor, LA |
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Michael M. Palmieri |
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Scenic,Track |
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ICG Lift Bridge |
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This Scherzer rolling lift span and concrete bridge replaced an adjacent swing span and wooden trestle on the Illinois Central at Pass Manchac, Louisiana. The first train across the new bridge was Amtrak's southbound PANAMA LIMITED on 11 January 1972, behind IC E8A 4018. The lift span was converted to remote control operation from MAYS YARD in 1997. |
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9/22/1979 Upload Date: 9/18/2017 3:10:20 PM |
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Manchac, LA |
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Michael Palmieri |
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Former IC Depot |
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9/23/1979 Upload Date: 8/2/2010 4:52:17 PM |
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Ponchatoula, LA |
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Michael Palmieri |
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