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IC GENERAL JACKSON |
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A pair of former Illinois Central passenger cars were someone's vacation home amid the pine trees in St. Tammany Parish, Louisiana. The GENERAL JACKSON is a 1-compaptment/1-drawing-room/3-double-bedroom/tavern/lounge car built by Pullman-Standard in April 1942 for the PANAMA LIMITED, while baggage car 755 was built by Pullman in 1921. The cars were located along the now-abandoned ICG (ex-GM&O) Shore Line District/ between Mandeville and Abita Spring, Louisiana. They were subsequently purchased by Iowa Pacific Holdings and moved to Alamosa, Colorado in January 2014. |
| Photo Date: |
6/28/1978 Upload Date: 8/11/2009 10:31:19 AM |
| Location: |
Abita Springs, LA |
| Author: |
Michael Palmieri |
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ICG GP10 8202 |
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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 |
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ICG 8202(GP10) |
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| Title: |
ICG 8202 |
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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) |
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1235 Comments: 1 |
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| Title: |
ICG GP10 8202 |
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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) |
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963 Comments: 3 |
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| Title: |
Two Trains |
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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) |
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1476 Comments: 2 |
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| Title: |
Bridge |
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Looking east along the ICG Shore Line District towards Abita Springs. Bridge NA62.22 was a 284-foot trestle across the Abita River. |
| Photo Date: |
10/13/1983 Upload Date: 1/23/2010 10:08:11 PM |
| Location: |
Abita Springs, LA |
| Author: |
Michael Palmieri |
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Bridge |
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Approaching local |
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Local Illinois Central frieght works it way through Abita Springs, on the St. Tammany branch |
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3/1/1990 Upload Date: 11/1/2006 3:43:25 AM |
| Location: |
Abita Springs, LA |
| Author: |
Ralph Hawkins |
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Replica? of the depot |
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1/17/2019 Upload Date: 2/27/2019 9:57:55 PM |
| Location: |
Abita Springs, LA |
| Author: |
G Gerard |
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