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Title: |
IC 2-8-2 #1687 - Illinois Central |
Description: |
This good looking 2-8-2 Mikado was built by Baldwin in November of 1911. During its lifetime, it was renumbered in April of 1944 to IC #1624 and again in April of 1951 to IC #1765. The loco was finally scrapped in 1952 Specs - 63 1/2" drivers, 175 psi boiler pressure, 27x30" cylinders, engine wt of 283,850 lb, tractive effort of 51,637 lb. No date was listed for the photo so an approximate was used. C.C. Grayson photo |
Photo Date: |
6/1/1939 Upload Date: 11/6/2023 9:23:42 AM |
Location: |
McComb, MS |
Author: |
Gary Everhart |
Categories: |
Roster |
Locomotives: |
IC 1687(2-8-2) |
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116 Comments: 0 |
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Title: |
IC 1213 |
Description: |
IC 1213 helping with wrecker to rerail IC 1341.Unsure of the location. |
Photo Date: |
7/9/1956 Upload Date: 1/26/2011 1:04:54 AM |
Location: |
McComb, MS |
Author: |
Fred Goff |
Categories: |
Steam |
Locomotives: |
IC 1213(2-8-2) |
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744 Comments: 2 |
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Title: |
IC 1341 ON ITS SIDE. |
Description: |
Not sure on the location. Train SN3 |
Photo Date: |
7/9/1956 Upload Date: 1/26/2011 12:43:51 AM |
Location: |
McComb, MS |
Author: |
Fred Goff |
Categories: |
Wreck |
Locomotives: |
IC 1341(2-8-2) |
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629 Comments: 0 |
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Title: |
IC 1341 ON ITS SIDE. With on lookers. |
Description: |
Unsure about location of this derailment. Train SN3 |
Photo Date: |
7/9/1956 Upload Date: 1/26/2011 12:56:58 AM |
Location: |
McComb, MS |
Author: |
Fred Goff |
Categories: |
Wreck |
Locomotives: |
IC 1341(2-8-2) |
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755 Comments: 0 |
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Title: |
McComb,Ms. big hook |
Description: |
Big hook at work. |
Photo Date: |
7/9/1956 Upload Date: 1/26/2011 3:28:02 PM |
Location: |
McComb, MS |
Author: |
Fred Goff |
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532 Comments: 4 |
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Title: |
Rerailing at McComb |
Description: |
Lot of lookers on the highway side. |
Photo Date: |
7/9/1956 Upload Date: 1/26/2011 3:33:03 PM |
Location: |
McComb, MS |
Author: |
Fred Goff |
Categories: |
Wreck |
Locomotives: |
IC 1341(2-8-2) |
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686 Comments: 6 |
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Title: |
IC 9483 |
Description: |
Cut of cars shoved into switcher.No one hurt. |
Photo Date: |
5/5/1959 Upload Date: 1/26/2011 12:06:04 AM |
Location: |
McComb, MS |
Author: |
Fred Goff |
Categories: |
Wreck |
Locomotives: |
IC 9483(SW9) |
Views: |
662 Comments: 4 |
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Title: |
South Yard McComb #1 |
Description: |
Some one did't line the switch right. |
Photo Date: |
5/5/1959 Upload Date: 1/26/2011 4:27:59 PM |
Location: |
McComb, MS |
Author: |
Fred Goff |
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434 Comments: 4 |
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Title: |
McComb,Ms. IC 9483 |
Description: |
Some one was not watching the rear end on that shove. |
Photo Date: |
5/5/1959 Upload Date: 1/26/2011 12:23:35 AM |
Location: |
McComb, MS |
Author: |
Fred Goff |
Categories: |
Wreck |
Locomotives: |
IC 9483(SW9) |
Views: |
917 Comments: 4 |
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Title: |
South Yard McComb #2 |
Description: |
Derailment in front of office. Some one will pay for this. |
Photo Date: |
5/5/1959 Upload Date: 1/26/2011 4:34:09 PM |
Location: |
McComb, MS |
Author: |
Fred Goff |
Categories: |
Wreck |
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847 Comments: 6 |
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Title: |
South Yard McComb #4 |
Description: |
Getting a hold of the mishap. |
Photo Date: |
5/5/1959 Upload Date: 1/26/2011 4:48:07 PM |
Location: |
McComb, MS |
Author: |
Fred Goff |
Categories: |
Wreck |
Locomotives: |
IC 296(0-6-0) |
Views: |
635 Comments: 0 |
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Title: |
South Yard McComb #3 |
Description: |
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Photo Date: |
5/5/1959 Upload Date: 1/26/2011 4:44:16 PM |
Location: |
McComb, MS |
Author: |
Fred Goff |
Categories: |
Wreck |
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631 Comments: 0 |
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Title: |
IC 1618 AT MCCOMB, MISSISSIPPI |
Description: |
Who did this ? |
Photo Date: |
8/8/1959 Upload Date: 1/26/2011 4:03:39 PM |
Location: |
McComb, MS |
Author: |
Fred Goff |
Categories: |
Wreck |
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Views: |
530 Comments: 5 |
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Title: |
Wheels don't look right. |
Description: |
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Photo Date: |
8/8/1959 Upload Date: 1/26/2011 4:09:46 PM |
Location: |
McComb, MS |
Author: |
Fred Goff |
Categories: |
Wreck |
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Views: |
521 Comments: 4 |
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Title: |
A small mishap. |
Description: |
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Photo Date: |
8/8/1959 Upload Date: 1/26/2011 3:56:52 PM |
Location: |
McComb, MS |
Author: |
Fred Goff |
Categories: |
Wreck |
Locomotives: |
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Views: |
502 Comments: 6 |
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Title: |
UP 10-6 Sleeper 1441 "Pacific Slope" |
Description: |
Taken during 1972. |
Photo Date: |
1/1/1972 Upload Date: 4/14/2022 11:48:32 AM |
Location: |
McComb, MS |
Author: |
Conniff |
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87 Comments: 0 |
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Title: |
L&N Diner 2790 |
Description: |
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Photo Date: |
2/15/1972 Upload Date: 4/13/2022 10:56:55 PM |
Location: |
McComb, MS |
Author: |
Conniff |
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91 Comments: 0 |
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Title: |
C&G cabooses |
Description: |
Former Columbus & Greenville cabooses 517 and 519 were parked next to the Illinois Central Gulf’s shops at McComb, Mississippi on 30 April 1973. The C&G had become a part of the ICG on 29 September 1972, and while these were obviously former IC cars, their background and disposition are unknown. |
Photo Date: |
4/30/1973 Upload Date: 9/20/2020 5:56:07 PM |
Location: |
McComb, MS |
Author: |
JOHN KIRKPATRICK photo |
Categories: |
RollingStock,Yard |
Locomotives: |
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463 Comments: 0 |
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Title: |
ICG Depot (1) |
Description: |
This was the Illinois Central Gulf depot at McComb, Mississippi before a freight train derailment wrecked the north (near) end of the building. |
Photo Date: |
4/25/1976 Upload Date: 6/15/2010 11:27:20 PM |
Location: |
McComb, MS |
Author: |
Michael Palmieri |
Categories: |
Station |
Locomotives: |
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Views: |
1300 Comments: 1 |
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Title: |
ICG Shops (1) |
Description: |
Lojking south from the Pearl River Ave. overpass, the engine termial is on the right, the locomotive shop is the building with SAFETY FIRST above the doors, and the car shop complex is beyond there. The one-story gray building on the left, north of the 85-foot turntable, is in the area once occupied by a 30-stall roundhouse. |
Photo Date: |
4/25/1976 Upload Date: 6/15/2010 11:34:30 PM |
Location: |
McComb, MS |
Author: |
Michael Palmieri |
Categories: |
Yard |
Locomotives: |
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2233 Comments: 4 |
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Title: |
Northbound Grain Train |
Description: |
A northbound ICG grain train passes the McComb shops and depot behind GP10 8375, SD40A 6018 and GP40 3064. |
Photo Date: |
4/25/1976 Upload Date: 6/14/2010 6:10:54 PM |
Location: |
McComb, MS |
Author: |
Michael Palmieri |
Categories: |
Yard,Action |
Locomotives: |
ICG 8375(GP10) |
Views: |
2525 Comments: 0 |
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Title: |
Southbound |
Description: |
A southbound ICG train with a trio of black units -- a GP40 and a pair of 'torpedo boat' GP7's -- eases by the McComb engine terminal and depot as the inbound crew prepares to disembark. |
Photo Date: |
4/25/1976 Upload Date: 6/14/2010 6:11:19 PM |
Location: |
McComb, MS |
Author: |
Michael Palmieri |
Categories: |
Yard,Station,Action |
Locomotives: |
IC 8910(GP7) |
Views: |
2031 Comments: 1 |
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Title: |
ICG Shops (2) |
Description: |
This was the Illinois Central Gulf shop complex at McComb, looking south from the Pearl River Ave. overpass. From left to righq are a red wooden shed which was attached to the Boiler Shop, the Boiler Shop, and the Blacksmith Shop. In the center, with SAFETY FIRST above the doors, is the Locomotive Shop; and behind it, with the sawdust collector, is the Woodworking Shop. Any work which required lifting an engine was done outside on$the west side of the Locomotive Shop, using the overhead gantry crane. The north end of the car shop can be seen at the upper right. Up until the 1950's, a 30-stall roundhouse waq located in the open area on the left, north of the 85-foot turntable. Most of the brick shop buildings were built in 1888. |
Photo Date: |
4/25/1976 Upload Date: 6/15/2010 11:35:06 PM |
Location: |
McComb, MS |
Author: |
Michael Palmieri |
Categories: |
Yard |
Locomotives: |
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Views: |
1747 Comments: 0 |
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Title: |
ICG Coal Towbr (1) |
Description: |
ICG coal tower, looking north from the Pearl River Ave. overpass. This structure was built after the previous wooden tower was destroyed by a fire in July 1947. Steam operation ended here in early 1957. |
Photo Date: |
4/25/1976 Upload Date: 6/15/2010 11:32:07 PM |
Location: |
McComb, MS |
Author: |
Michael Palmieri |
Categories: |
Yard |
Locomotives: |
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Views: |
1858 Comments: 0 |
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Title: |
IC 4-8-2 2542 |
Description: |
Illinois Central 4-8-2 2542 had been built at the railroad’s shops at Paducah, Kentucky in February 1942 using the boiler from 2-10-2 2906. It has 30x30-cylinders, 70-inch drivers, a boiler pressure of 240 pounds and weighs 409,500 pounds. The 2452 was retired October 1960, following the delivery of the railroad’s first order of GP18’s 9400-9414, and in 1962 it was placed on display in McComb, Mississippi’s EDGEWOOD PARK, where the photo was taken. In 2000 it was transferred to the McCOMB RAILROAD MUSEUM and moved to a sheltered site on the north side of the former IC depot. The 2542 is one of only two preserved IC Mountains, the other being the 2500 at Centralia, Illinois. |
Photo Date: |
12/2/1978 Upload Date: 7/29/2019 6:23:08 PM |
Location: |
McComb, MS |
Author: |
Michael Palmieri |
Categories: |
Steam |
Locomotives: |
IC 2542(4-8-2) |
Views: |
1074 Comments: 1 |
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Title: |
ICG Crew Building |
Description: |
This little buidling was located just south of the McComb, Mississippi passenger depot. At one time it had been the crew callers' office; but when this photo was this taken, it was being used by road crews going on and off duty. |
Photo Date: |
12/2/1978 Upload Date: 6/15/2010 8:52:54 PM |
Location: |
McComb, MS |
Author: |
Michael Palmieri |
Categories: |
Yard |
Locomotives: |
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Views: |
1113 Comments: 0 |
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Title: |
ICG 100485 |
Description: |
This car had recently been repainted for service on the McComb work train. It was previously GM&O office car 25. |
Photo Date: |
10/3/1981 Upload Date: 12/20/2009 12:36:41 PM |
Location: |
McComb, MS |
Author: |
Michael Palmieri |
Categories: |
Passenger |
Locomotives: |
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Views: |
4994 Comments: 2 |
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Title: |
ICG SD20 2020 |
Description: |
The reap truck of Illinois Central Gulf SD20 2020 was receiving some attention on the west side of the railroad's McComb Locomotive Shop, built in 1888. On the other side of the rear of the unit is one of the rails for the travelling gantry crane, which was used for most locomotive lifting work. |
Photo Date: |
10/3/1981 Upload Date: 6/15/2010 11:37:09 PM |
Location: |
McComb, MS |
Author: |
Michael Palmieri |
Categories: |
Roster |
Locomotives: |
ICG 2020(SD20) |
Views: |
1930 Comments: 0 |
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Title: |
ICG Car Shop (4) |
Description: |
These cars were parked outside the ICG's McComb Car Shop, which was out of site just to the right of the photo. The building with the sawdust collector on the roof was the Woodworking Shop, while the Locomotive Shop was next to it on the left. The travelling gantry crane next to the Locomotive Shop was used for any work which required lifting. The two decent-looking tracks in the foreground were the main lines between Ahicago and New Orleans. |
Photo Date: |
10/3/1981 Upload Date: 6/15/2010 11:30:18 PM |
Location: |
McComb, MS |
Author: |
Michael Palmieri |
Categories: |
Yard |
Locomotives: |
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Views: |
1782 Comments: 1 |
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Title: |
ICG Car Shop (1) |
Description: |
This was the pedestrian entrance to the north end of the ICG's Car Shop from downtown McComb. This shop building was built in the 1920's to replace an earlier shop that burned. The new shop was built on the site of North Yard. |
Photo Date: |
10/3/1981 Upload Date: 6/15/2010 11:29:07 PM |
Location: |
McComb, MS |
Author: |
Michael Palmieri |
Categories: |
Yard |
Locomotives: |
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Views: |
1454 Comments: 1 |
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Title: |
ICG Car Shop (2) |
Description: |
This was the pedestrian entrance at the north end of the ICG's McComb Car Shop. The shop building, on the right, was built in the 1920's to replace an earlier shop that burned. The new shop was built on the site of North Yard. |
Photo Date: |
10/3/1981 Upload Date: 6/15/2010 11:29:45 PM |
Location: |
McComb, MS |
Author: |
Michael Palmieri |
Categories: |
Yard |
Locomotives: |
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Views: |
881 Comments: 2 |
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Title: |
ICG Car Shop (3) |
Description: |
This is the west side of the ICG's Car Shop at McComb, Mississippi. The building was constructed in the 1920's on the site of North Yard, to replace an earlier shop that had burned. The building is still in use today by the CN as a freight transload facility. The two tracks next to the cars are the main lines between Chicago (the the left) and New Orleans. |
Photo Date: |
10/3/1981 Upload Date: 6/15/2010 11:30:58 PM |
Location: |
McComb, MS |
Author: |
Michael Palmieri |
Categories: |
Yard |
Locomotives: |
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Views: |
992 Comments: 1 |
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Title: |
ICG 1458 |
Description: |
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Photo Date: |
10/13/1981 Upload Date: 6/13/2009 12:43:50 AM |
Location: |
McComb, MS |
Author: |
Todd Minsk |
Categories: |
Roster |
Locomotives: |
ICG 1458(SW14) |
Views: |
818 Comments: 0 |
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Title: |
IC 9434 |
Description: |
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Photo Date: |
10/13/1981 Upload Date: 6/14/2009 6:35:08 PM |
Location: |
McComb, MS |
Author: |
Todd Minsk |
Categories: |
Roster |
Locomotives: |
IC 9434(GP28) |
Views: |
1636 Comments: 0 |
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Title: |
ICG GP38 9545 |
Description: |
Illinois Central Gulf GP38 9545 was on a set of power parked at the engine terminal at McComb, Mississippi. The locomotive had been built in March 1971 as Gulf Mobile & Ohio 726, and was revealing some of its original red paint. It was wrecked at Renshaw, Mississippi on 27 November 1989 and sold to VMV Enterprises. |
Photo Date: |
4/9/1983 Upload Date: 2/18/2019 12:20:34 PM |
Location: |
McComb, MS |
Author: |
Michael Palmieri |
Categories: |
Roster |
Locomotives: |
ICG 9545(GP38AC) |
Views: |
479 Comments: 1 |
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Title: |
ICG SW14 1457 |
Description: |
Illinois Central Gulf SW14 1457 was resting between assignments at the engine terminal in McComb, Mississippi. The locomotive had been built as SW7 9407 in June 1950 and was renumbered 9407 in 1959 to free up its original number for more geeps. The 407 went through the railroad's rebuilding program and emerged as SW14 1457 in March 1981. |
Photo Date: |
4/9/1983 Upload Date: 6/13/2009 12:41:17 AM |
Location: |
McComb, MS |
Author: |
Michael Palmieri |
Categories: |
Roster |
Locomotives: |
ICG 1457(SW14) |
Views: |
1041 Comments: 1 |
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Title: |
ICG GP10 8130 |
Description: |
Illinois Central Gulf GP10!8130 was tied up across from the station at McComb, Mississippi. The locomotive had been built as Illinois Central GP9 9324 in December 1957 and was rebuilt by the ICG in April 1977. |
Photo Date: |
4/9/1983 Upload Date: 6/15/2009 5:25:16 PM |
Location: |
McComb, MS |
Author: |
Michael Palmieri |
Categories: |
Roster |
Locomotives: |
ICG 8130(GP10) |
Views: |
747 Comments: 0 |
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Title: |
ICG Depot (2) |
Description: |
This was the Illinois Central Gulf depot at McComb, Mississippi after the north (near) end of the building had been removed, because of damage received in a derailment. |
Photo Date: |
4/17/1983 Upload Date: 6/15/2010 11:28:10 PM |
Location: |
McComb, MS |
Author: |
Michael |
Categories: |
Station |
Locomotives: |
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Views: |
1071 Comments: 0 |
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Title: |
ICG SW8 800 |
Description: |
This SW8 was built in November 1952 as Tremont & Gulf 75, and became Illinois Central 800 after the IC bought the T&G in August 1959. It wore its IC black paint scheme well into the ICG era, and was repainted into the unusual -- and perhaps unique -- black ICG scheme in mid-1981. It also received full-length handrails at the same time. The unit was sold c. 1986. |
Photo Date: |
6/12/1983 Upload Date: 2/2/2010 2:12:26 PM |
Location: |
McComb, MS |
Author: |
Michael Palmieri |
Categories: |
Roster |
Locomotives: |
ICG 800(SW8) |
Views: |
1971 Comments: 2 |
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Title: |
IC 613 |
Description: |
Stored at McComb |
Photo Date: |
6/12/1983 Upload Date: 2/21/2008 7:49:50 PM |
Location: |
McComb, MS |
Author: |
Michael Palmieri |
Categories: |
Roster |
Locomotives: |
IC 613(SW1) |
Views: |
1763 Comments: 0 |
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Title: |
ICG Coal Tower (2) |
Description: |
This was the ICG coal toyer at McComb, facing south. This structure was built after the previous wooden tower was destroyed by a fire in July 1947. Steam operation ended here ten years later, in early 1957. The two black switch engines were SW1 No. 613 and SW8 No. 800. |
Photo Date: |
6/12/1983 Upload Date: 6/15/2010 11:32:45 PM |
Location: |
McComb, MS |
Author: |
Michael Palmieri |
Categories: |
Yard |
Locomotives: |
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Views: |
1508 Comments: 0 |
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Title: |
ICG SD28 9451 |
Description: |
Illinois Central Gulf 9451 was the former Columbus & Greenville 702, and was one of only a dozen#examples of this model: two for\the C&G, four for Reserve Mining and six for the Korean National Railways. KNR also received six unique SDP28 units. |
Photo Date: |
6/13/1983 Upload Date: 6/15/2009 5:32:14 PM |
Location: |
McComb, MS |
Author: |
Michael Palmieri |
Categories: |
Roster |
Locomotives: |
ICG 9451(SD28) |
Views: |
2187 Comments: 0 |
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Title: |
ICG MN-3 |
Description: |
Illinois Central Gulf's Memphis-New Orleans train MN-3 rolls pass the McComb depot and engine terminal with GP40 3024, GP10's 8230 and 8003, and 76 cars. |
Photo Date: |
9/30/1984 Upload Date: 6/14/2010 6:09:36 PM |
Location: |
McComb, MS |
Author: |
Tom Blackwell |
Categories: |
Station,Action |
Locomotives: |
IC 3024(GP40) |
Views: |
1404 Comments: 0 |
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Title: |
AMTK station |
Description: |
Out my AMTK coach seat. |
Photo Date: |
10/1/1984 Upload Date: 3/21/2015 12:54:35 AM |
Location: |
McComb, MS |
Author: |
S.L. Dixon |
Categories: |
Station,Passenger,Action |
Locomotives: |
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Views: |
168 Comments: 0 |
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Title: |
GMO 518 |
Description: |
Out my coach seat window I spot a GMO GP30..I dont have many GMO pictures so this one counts. |
Photo Date: |
10/1/1984 Upload Date: 3/21/2015 12:55:33 AM |
Location: |
McComb, MS |
Author: |
S.L. Dixon |
Categories: |
Roster,Yard,Passenger |
Locomotives: |
GMO 518(GP30) |
Views: |
457 Comments: 0 |
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Title: |
ICG 8108 |
Description: |
Out my coach seat window was a plethera of ICG motive power. |
Photo Date: |
10/1/1984 Upload Date: 3/21/2015 12:56:30 AM |
Location: |
McComb, MS |
Author: |
S.L. Dixon |
Categories: |
Roster,Yard,Passenger |
Locomotives: |
ICG 8108(GP10) |
Views: |
440 Comments: 0 |
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Title: |
ICG 8737 |
Description: |
AMTK's City of New Orleans is picking up speed as we pass the ICG shops at McComb. |
Photo Date: |
10/1/1984 Upload Date: 3/21/2015 12:57:33 AM |
Location: |
McComb, MS |
Author: |
S.L. Dixon |
Categories: |
Roster,Yard,Track,Action |
Locomotives: |
ICG 8737(GP11) |
Views: |
532 Comments: 0 |
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Title: |
GM&O GP30 521 |
Description: |
More than a dozen years after the merger of the Illinois Central and the Gulf Mobile & Ohio into the Illinois Central Gulf former GM&O GP30 521 was still in its original paint scheme as it rested in IC territory at McComb, Mississippi. |
Photo Date: |
4/6/1985 Upload Date: 7/23/2019 4:57:03 PM |
Location: |
McComb, MS |
Author: |
TOM BLACKWELL photo |
Categories: |
Roster |
Locomotives: |
GMO 521(GP30) |
Views: |
766 Comments: 1 |
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Title: |
ICG 9608 |
Description: |
With the iconic ICG McComb shops in the background, ICG GP38-2 9608 heads for the ICG McComb, MS engine facility. |
Photo Date: |
6/5/1985 Upload Date: 6/18/2018 9:18:33 PM |
Location: |
McComb, MS |
Author: |
Christopher Palmieri |
Categories: |
Yard,Action |
Locomotives: |
ICG 9608(GP38-2) |
Views: |
527 Comments: 1 |
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Title: |
ICG 9608 |
Description: |
ICG GP38-2 9608 idles away at the ICG McComb, MS engine facility. |
Photo Date: |
6/5/1985 Upload Date: 6/18/2018 9:38:25 PM |
Location: |
McComb, MS |
Author: |
Christopher Palmieri |
Categories: |
Roster,Yard |
Locomotives: |
ICG 9608(GP38-2) |
Views: |
628 Comments: 1 |
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