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Title:
IC Depot, mile 352.4
Description:
When this picture was taken, 4 IC passenger trains were stopping here daily - the Louisiane (north and south), the Southern Express (south) and the Creole (north). IC passenger train, Chickasaw, also had instructions in the timetable during this time to "reduce speed to 35 MPH to dispatch US mail." The last passenger train to stop here was the Mid-American on December 5, 1970. This station closed as a train order office sometime between 1971 and 1975. There was a switcher based out of here until sometime in the 1980's. Picture taken sometime in June of 1966. Today, the southbound main (which is the track closest to the depot) is gone, along with the brick platform, train order hoops, order board, and the Illinois Central 100 Year commemorative plaques. The depot is now privately owned.
Photo Date:
6/1/1966
Upload Date:
9/6/2015 4:21:44 PM
Location:
Covington, TN
Author:
WC Thurman
Categories:
Locomotives:
Views:
218
Comments:
0
Title:
GM&O GP30 511
Description:
GM&O GP30 511 sits at Covington TN in May 1978.
Photo Date:
5/24/1978
Upload Date:
12/10/2008 8:04:23 PM
Location:
Covington, TN
Author:
Rick Morgan
Categories:
Locomotives:
GMO 511(GP30)
Views:
1013
Comments:
1
Title:
IC GP40 3074
Description:
Illinois Central Railroad GP40 3074 at Covington, Tennessee on April 4, 1984, Kodachrome by Chuck Zeiler. Number 3074 was built in February 1970 (c/n 36170), later became ICG 3074, then HLCX 3074, then MCKX 4302, then PAL 2109. In this photo it shows a couple of unusual charateristics from a stock GP40. Unusual for the IC was the dynamic brakes, which appeared on IC GP40 numbers 3060 - 3074. Also unusual was the water level sight glass and the L shaped Engineer's front window.
Photo Date:
4/4/1984
Upload Date:
5/28/2016 12:56:10 PM
Location:
Covington, TN
Author:
Chuck Zeiler
Categories:
Roster
Locomotives:
IC 3074(GP40)
Views:
474
Comments:
0
Title:
IC GP10 8019
Description:
ICG GP10 8019, Covington, Tennessee, April 4, 1984, photo by Chuck Zeiler. Built in May 1954 as IC GP9 9019, it was rebuilt in 1971 at Paducah to GP10 8019. It later became CC 1719.
Photo Date:
4/4/1984
Upload Date:
5/27/2010 12:35:25 PM
Location:
Covington, TN
Author:
Chuck Zeiler
Categories:
Roster
Locomotives:
IC 8019(GP10)
ICG 8710(GP11)
Views:
987
Comments:
0
Title:
ICG SD20 2028
Description:
ICG SD20 2028, Covington, Tennessee, April 4, 1984, photo by Chuck Zeiler. Built in July 1959 as UP SD24B 411B (c/n 25399) on EMD Order 5602, it was sold to Precision National Corporation on March 27 1981, sold to ICG, rebuilt to ICG SD20 2028 in May 1982, sold to National Railway Equipment in April 1997, to Boise Locomotive.
Photo Date:
4/4/1984
Upload Date:
4/19/2010 10:37:21 AM
Location:
Covington, TN
Author:
Chuck Zeiler
Categories:
Roster
Locomotives:
ICG 2028(SD20)
Views:
650
Comments:
0
Title:
ICG GP40 3074
Description:
Illinois Central Gulf Railroad GP40 3074 at Covington, Tennessee on April 4, 1984, Kodachrome by Chuck Zeiler. Number 3074 was built in February 1070 ( c/n 36170 ).
Photo Date:
4/4/1984
Upload Date:
3/29/2018 6:49:17 PM
Location:
Covington, TN
Author:
Chuck Zeiler
Categories:
RollingStock,Action
Locomotives:
ICG 3074(GP40)
Views:
446
Comments:
0
Title:
IC GP40 3026
Description:
IC GP40 3026, Covington, Tennessee, April 5, 1984, photo by Chuck Zeiler. This locomotive was built in January 1966 (c/n 31454) on EMD Order 5697, eventually becoming ICG 3026. On May 26, 1989 it became UP 853 (under lease from Helm Financial), returned to Helm and rebuilt to GP38-2 and leased to UP as 2530 on August 20, 1998, renumbered to UP 1030 on August 28, 2001.
Photo Date:
4/5/1984
Upload Date:
5/8/2010 9:46:56 AM
Location:
Covington, TN
Author:
Chuck Zeiler
Categories:
Roster
Locomotives:
IC 3026(GP40)
Views:
800
Comments:
0
Title:
IC GP40 3026
Description:
IC GP40 3026, Covington, Tennessee, April 5, 1984, photo by Chuck Zeiler. This locomotive was built iq January 1966 (c/n 31454) on EMD Order 5697, eventually becoming ICG 3026. On May 26, 1989 it became UP 853 (under lease from Helm Financial), returned to Helm and rebuilt qo GP38-2 and leased to UP as 2530 on August 20, 1998, renumbered to UP 1030 on August 28, 2001.
Photo Date:
4/6/1984
Upload Date:
4/10/2010 1:06:45 PM
Location:
Covington, TN
Author:
Chuck Zeiler
Categories:
Roster
Locomotives:
IC 3026(GP40)
Views:
711
Comments:
1
Title:
IC 9423
Description:
Illinois Central Gulf Railroad (still in IC paint) 9423 at Covington, Tennessee on April 6, 1984, Kodachrome by Chuck Zeiler. IC 9400 - 9449 were 30'5" steel caboose with wide vision cupola, extended porches, riveted body and PS roof built in 1972 at Centralia, Illinois. Some, but not all, were renumbered to ICG 199400-199449.
Photo Date:
4/6/1984
Upload Date:
1/29/2011 10:53:37 AM
Location:
Covington, TN
Author:
Chuck Zeiler
Categories:
RollingStock,Action
Locomotives:
Views:
485
Comments:
0
Title:
ICG Depot
Description:
Here is the former IC depot sometime in 1986. The last passenger train to stop here was the Mid-American on December 5, 1970. This station closed as a train order office sometime between 1971 and 1975. There was a switcher based out of here until sometime in the 1980's.
Photo Date:
7/1/1986
Upload Date:
9/16/2014 3:49:17 PM
Location:
Covington, TN
Author:
Tom Allen
Categories:
Locomotives:
Views:
209
Comments:
0
Title:
GM&O GP30 510
Description:
GM&O GP30 510 southbound at Covington, Tennessee on July 19, 1986, photo by Chuck Zeiler. Built in March 1963 (c/n 27914) on EMD Order 7635, it became ICG 2260 and was later rebuilt into CSX slug 2264. The following is excerpted from the June/July 1982 issue of Mainline Modeler Magazine, article beginning on page 27 by Bruce Meyer: The trucks on the ICG's ex-GM&O GP-30's and GP-35's were from Alco FA/FB trade-in's. The Alco four-wheel swing bolster trucks with the special Alco lever pin and retainer at the pull rods were rebuilt at EMD, which also rebuilt the GE Model 752 traction motors to their specifications. The original GE 74:18 gear ratio was retained due to the large center distance between the 752 armature shaft and axle. This gear ratio provided a maximum speed of 71 mph. All units were equipped with dynamic brakes. The GM&O obtained a total of 31 GP30's (#'s 500-530) in 1962-63, and 48 GP-35's (#'s 601-648) in 1964-65. South of Venice, Illinois, the GM&O was what might be called a "drag railroad", with trains run at or near full tonnage. Between Venice and the Ohio River, the tonnage rating in both directions was set by a hill called Alto Pass. Although Alto Pass was not very high or long, it was steep, and included a number of curves. The railroad expected to hang everything but the kitchen sink behind the new GP-30's and GP-35's and crawl up Alto Pass. During the years 1963, 1964, and 1965, the railroad and EMD conducted many wheel slip tests in drag freight service on the hill. The somewhat different electrical characteristics of the 752 traction motor and the ride response of the AAR Type B trucks required a number of modifications to the wheel slip systems in order to obtain maximum tonnage over Alto Pass. Trotting along side of the lead GP-30 of a four unit consist climbing Alto Pass, moving under five miles per hour in 8th throttle, in order to watch the slipping lead axle is not recommended practice, but it was done in the interest of "science". Alto Pass has been abandon now in favor of the more gentle grades on the old passenger main line of the Illinois Central just a few miles to the east.
Photo Date:
7/19/1986
Upload Date:
4/2/2009 12:59:39 PM
Location:
Covington, TN
Author:
Chuck Zeiler
Categories:
Roster
Locomotives:
GMO 510(GP30)
Views:
2667
Comments:
0
Title:
ICG SD28 9451
Description:
ICG SD28 9451, Covington, Tennessee, July 19, 1986, photo by Chuck Zeiler. Built in September 1965 as CAGY 702 (c/n 30705) on EMD Order 5693, it became ICG 9451, was wrecked September 29, 1989, and was sold to NRE August 17, 1992. Only six domestic units were built, and here's what Wikipedia has to say: An EMD SD28 is a 6-axle diesel locomotive built by General Motors Electro-Motive Division between July 1965 and September 1965. Power was provided by an EMD 567D1 16-cylinder engine which generated 1800 horsepower (1.3 MW). This locomotive was basically a non-turbocharged version of the EMD SD35. 6 examples of this locomotive model were built for American railroads. A further six of a passenger variant, type SDP28, were built for export to Korea in 1966.
Photo Date:
7/19/1986
Upload Date:
4/12/2010 9:55:47 AM
Location:
Covington, TN
Author:
Chuck Zeiler
Categories:
Roster
Locomotives:
ICG 9451(SD28)
ICG 2257(GP30)
Views:
1917
Comments:
1
Title:
ICG GP38-2 9605
Description:
ICG GP38-2 9605, Covington, Tennessee, July 19, 1986, photo by Chuck Zeiler. Built in November 1974 (c/n 74646-6), it was named "Ambrose E. Burnside". Ambrose Everett Burnside (May 23, 1824 September 13, 1881) was an American soldier, railroad executive, inventor, industrialist, and politician from Rhode Island, serving as governor and a U.S. Senator. His distinctive style of facial hair is now known as sideburns, derived from his last name. In 1853, he devoted his time and energy to the manufacture of the famous rifle that bears his name, the Burnside carbine. The destruction by fire of his factory contributed to his financial ruin, and he was forced to assign his firearm patents to others. He went west in search of employment and became treasurer of the Illinois Central Railroad.
Photo Date:
7/19/1986
Upload Date:
8/6/2010 1:05:27 PM
Location:
Covington, TN
Author:
Chuck Zeiler
Categories:
Roster
Locomotives:
ICG 9605(GP38-2)
Views:
499
Comments:
2
Title:
ICG GP38-2 9605
Description:
ICG GP38-2 9605, Covington, Tennessee, July 19, 1986, photo by Chuck Zeiler. Built in November 1974 (c/n 74646-6), it was named "Ambrose E. Burnside". The following is compiled from Wikipedia and Google info: Ambrose Everett Burnside (May 23, 1824 September 13, 1881) was once a treasurer of the Illinois Central Railroad (roughly around 1858). At the outbreak of the Civil War, Burnside was a Union brigadier general in the Rhode Island Militia. As the two armies faced the stalemate of trench warfare at Petersburg (Virginia) in July 1864, Burnside agreed to a plan suggested by a regiment of Pennsylvania coal miners in his corps: dig a mine under a fort in the Confederate entrenchments and ignite explosives there to achieve a surprise breakthrough. The fort was destroyed on July 30 in what is known as the Battle of the Crater. Because of interference from Maj. Gen. George G. Meade (whom Burnside outranked, but was under Meade's command), Burnside was ordered, only hours before the infantry attack, not to use his division of black troops, which had been specially trained for this mission. He was forced to use untrained white troops instead. He could not decide which division to choose as a replacement, so he had his three subordinate commanders draw lots. The division chosen by chance was that commanded by Brig. Gen. James H. Ledlie, who failed to brief the men on what was expected of them and was reported during the battle to be drunk well behind the lines, providing no leadership. Ledlie's men entered the huge crater instead of going around it, becoming trapped, and were subjected to murderous fire from Confederates around the rim, resulting in high casualties. Burnside was relieved of command on August 14 and sent on leave by Grant; Meade never recalled him to duty. A court of inquiry later placed the blame for the Crater fiasco on Burnside and his subordinates. In December, Burnside met with President Lincoln and General Grant about his future. He was contemplating resignation, but Lincoln and Grant requested that he remain in the Army. At the end of the interview, Burnside wrote, "I was not informed of any duty upon which I am to be placed." He finally resigned his commission on April 15, 1865. After his resignation, Burnside was employed in numerous railroad and industrial directorships, including the presidencies of the Cincinnati and Martinsville Railroad, the Indianapolis and Vincennes Railroad, the Cairo and Vincennes Railroad, and the Rhode Island Locomotive Works. He was elected to three one-year terms as Governor of Rhode Island (May 1866 to May 1869). He was commander-in-chief of the Grand Army of the Republic veterans' association from 1871 to 1872. At its inception in 1871, the National Rifle Association chose him as its first president.
Photo Date:
7/19/1986
Upload Date:
8/10/2010 1:58:31 PM
Location:
Covington, TN
Author:
Chuck Zeiler
Categories:
Roster,Station
Locomotives:
ICG 9605(GP38-2)
Views:
542
Comments:
0
Title:
Northbound Freight
Description:
A northbound freight passes through Covington. From the collection of Fred Goff
Photo Date:
5/26/1999
Upload Date:
7/2/2009 7:41:30 PM
Location:
Covington, TN
Author:
Categories:
Locomotives:
IC 6050(SD40-2R)
Views:
681
Comments:
0
Title:
Canadian National Railway
Description:
Photo Date:
10/8/2010
Upload Date:
3/26/2011 11:15:52 PM
Location:
Covington, TN
Author:
David Stewart
Categories:
Locomotives:
CN 5628(SD75I)
Views:
337
Comments:
0
Title:
Canadian National Railway
Description:
Photo Date:
10/8/2010
Upload Date:
3/27/2011 2:59:33 PM
Location:
Covington, TN
Author:
David Stewart
Categories:
Locomotives:
IC 1025(SD70)
Views:
383
Comments:
1
Title:
Canadian National Railway
Description:
Photo Date:
10/8/2010
Upload Date:
3/27/2011 2:59:36 PM
Location:
Covington, TN
Author:
David Stewart
Categories:
Locomotives:
IC 1025(SD70)
Views:
290
Comments:
1
Title:
Canadian National Railway
Description:
Photo Date:
10/8/2010
Upload Date:
3/27/2011 2:59:39 PM
Location:
Covington, TN
Author:
David Stewart
Categories:
Locomotives:
IC 1025(SD70)
Views:
169
Comments:
1
Title:
Daybreak
Description:
Photo Date:
5/20/2012
Upload Date:
5/20/2012 7:51:29 PM
Location:
Covington, TN
Author:
Jamie Joyce
Categories:
Scenic
Locomotives:
Views:
80
Comments:
0
Title:
CN 5620 South - Covington, TN
Description:
Southbound on the CN Fulton Subdivision (former IC).
Photo Date:
11/8/2013
Upload Date:
11/25/2013 2:51:41 AM
Location:
Covington, TN
Author:
JL Scott
Categories:
Action
Locomotives:
CN 5620(SD70I)
Views:
283
Comments:
1
Title:
GM&O depot
Description:
Photo Date:
5/1/2017
Upload Date:
5/18/2017 10:04:14 PM
Location:
Covington, TN
Author:
G Gerard
Categories:
Locomotives:
Views:
34
Comments:
0
Title:
CN SB freight
Description:
Photo Date:
5/1/2017
Upload Date:
6/1/2017 10:21:17 AM
Location:
Covington, TN
Author:
G Gerard
Categories:
Locomotives:
CN 8837(SD70M-2)
IC 1033(SD70)
Views:
158
Comments:
0
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