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ICG Shore Line Branch |
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Assorted Illinois Central Gulf cars in maintenance-of-way service were parked along the SHORE LINE BRANCH while the line was being rehabilitated. The empty area in the foreground was once the location of the Gulf Mobile & Ohio station. The tower was used to store cement which was unloaded from covered hoppers and then reloaded into trucks for delivery to a nearby concrete plant. |
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2/17/1980 Upload Date: 8/29/2018 12:53:24 PM |
| Location: |
Mandeville, LA |
| Author: |
Michael Palmieri |
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| Title: |
GATX 70269 |
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GATX 70269 and some Illinois Central Gulf track equipment were parked on the sliding along the former Gulf Mobile & Ohio SHORELINE BRANCH in Mandeville, Louisiana. The silo on the other side of the tank car had been used to store cement which was unloaded from covered hoppers. |
| Photo Date: |
3/15/1980 Upload Date: 12/6/2017 3:24:25 PM |
| Location: |
Mandeville, LA |
| Author: |
Michael Palmieri |
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Track |
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| Title: |
ICG MW Equipment |
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Illinois Central Gulf maintenance-of-way equipment was parked along the railroad's SHORE LINE BRANCH in Mandeville, Louisiana during the line's reconstruction. This view was facing west at Lafitte Street. The former Gulf Mobile & Ohio branch line was abandoned in 1991. |
| Photo Date: |
3/15/1980 Upload Date: 8/17/2018 4:46:54 PM |
| Location: |
Mandeville, LA |
| Author: |
Michael Palmieri |
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Track |
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| Title: |
ICG GP38 9542 |
| Description: |
Illinois Central Gulf GP38 9542 - the former Gulf Mobile & Ohio 723 - was leading the Shoreline Branch local into the morning sun at Lafitte Street in Mandeville, Louisiana. The train was on its way from Covington to Bogalusa and consisted of eight loaded Crown Zellerbach pulpwood cars, one empty ABOX box car, two empty Missouri Pacific RB reefers, one empty ICG 50-foot box car, five ICG gondolas loaded with scrap and caboose 199034. This former GM&O line was abandoned in 1991. |
| Photo Date: |
8/12/1980 Upload Date: 12/23/2017 10:25:01 PM |
| Location: |
Mandeville, LA |
| Author: |
Michael Palmieri |
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Action |
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ICG 9542(GP38AC) |
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1162 Comments: 1 |
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| Title: |
ICG Shore Line Local |
| Description: |
The twice-weekly Illinois Central Gulf SHORELINE BRANCH local was heading easw through Fontainebleau State Park behind GP38-2 9542. The train had 17 cars and a caboose: eight Crown-Zellerbach pulpwood cars, one ABOX box car, two MP insulated box cars, one ICG box car, five ICG gondolas and ICG caboose 199034. |
| Photo Date: |
8/12/1980 Upload Date: 5/1/2018 1:50:28 PM |
| Location: |
Mandeville, LA |
| Author: |
Michael Palmieri |
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Action |
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ICG 9542(GP38AC) |
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| Title: |
ICG Shore Line Branch |
| Description: |
During the Recession of 1980 railroads stored unneeded freight cars everywhere. This view of excess Illinois Central Gulf cars was facing east on the railroad’s SHORE LINE BRANCH at Lacombe, Louisiana. The semaphore was the distant signal for the draw bridge over Bayou Lacombe. |
| Photo Date: |
3/23/1985 Upload Date: 8/29/2018 6:18:48 PM |
| Location: |
Lacombe, LA |
| Author: |
Michael Palmieri |
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Track |
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| Title: |
IC GP10 8146 |
| Description: |
Illinois Central GP10 8146 and two empty Southern Railway insulated box cars from a local beer distributor were tied up just north of the former Gulf Mobile & Ohio depot in Covington, Louisiana. The train was all made up, and the next morning a station wagon would bring a crew down from Bogalusa to take the train back there. |
| Photo Date: |
9/26/1985 Upload Date: 4/29/2017 12:51:32 PM |
| Location: |
Covington, LA |
| Author: |
Michael Palmieri |
| Categories: |
Scenic |
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IC 8146(GP10) |
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| Title: |
CZCX 920R |
| Description: |
All of the pulpwood loaded on the Shore Line District of the ICG went to the Crown Zellerbach Corp. paper mill at Bogalusa, Louisiana. Much of it moved on ICG, IC and GM&O cars; but Crown had cars of its own, including some with truss rods! |
| Photo Date: |
8/12/1980 Upload Date: 1/24/2010 12:32:07 PM |
| Location: |
Mandeville, LA |
| Author: |
Michael Palmieri |
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RollingStock |
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| Title: |
ICG 8310 |
| Description: |
A southward ICG Shore Line District local rolls east through the heart of old Mandeville. This town is located on the north shore of Lake Pontchartrain, directly north of New Orleans. The depot had been located just across the track from the phone box on the left, but it had burned down a few years earlier. Railroad passenger service ended here in 1939, when the Gulf Mobile & Northern replaced its motorcars with buses.The silo on the right was used by Prestressed Concrete Products Co. to transload bulk concrete from covered hopper cars into trucks for movement to their nearby plant. A prestressed concrete manufactuing plant had been established at Mandeville in 1954 as a joint venture by the contractors building the 24-mile Lake Pontchartrain Causeway. The bridge was completed in 1956 and Prestressed Concrete Products Co. was incorporated the following year. The plant closed shortly after this photo was taken.Although the Shore Line local usually ran with one locomotive, during the reconstruction of the branch which took place throughout 1980 it occasionally had an additional unit to handle hoppers cars of ballast; although ballast was also moved in solid trains. This train has GP10 8310, GP8 7724, 33 cars and caboose 199034. Its consist is one loaded GM&O hopper, three loaded IC pulpwood cars, 26 empty ICG hoppers, two empty Southern insulated box cars, and one SCL gondola of scrap. |
| Photo Date: |
10/3/1980 Upload Date: 1/24/2010 11:30:09 AM |
| Location: |
Mandeville, LA |
| Author: |
Michael Palmieri |
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Action |
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ICG 8310(GP10) |
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1535 Comments: 4 |
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| Title: |
ICG GP10 8202 |
| Description: |
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: |
IC GENERAL JACKSON |
| Description: |
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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Passenger |
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| Title: |
ICG 8202 |
| Description: |
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 |
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ICG 8202(GP10) |
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1188 Comments: 1 |
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| Title: |
Bridge |
| Description: |
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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| Title: |
ICG GP10 8202 |
| Description: |
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 |
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Action |
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ICG 8202(GP10) |
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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 |
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Action |
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IC 8308(GP10) ICG 8183(GP10) |
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| Title: |
Bogue Falaya Crossing |
| Description: |
ICG GP10 8237 crosses the Bogue Falaya with the northward Shore Line District local. The interesting bridge girder was built by the Edgemoor Iron Works of Wilmington, Delaware in 1888, when the East Louisiana Railroad constructed this line into Covington. The trestle shows evidence of the upgrading received by the entire branch in 1980; but despite this investment, the line was abandoned just ten years after this photo was taken. |
| Photo Date: |
3/23/1981 Upload Date: 1/21/2010 6:09:38 AM |
| Location: |
Covington, LA |
| Author: |
Michael Palmieri |
| Categories: |
Scenic |
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ICG 8237(GP10) |
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| Title: |
Gibson Street |
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After crossing the Bogue Falaya into Covington, the ICG Shore Line District ran down East Gibson Street for two and a half blocks before turning north. The northward local is about to cross North Columbia Street and enter the 5.75 degree curve leading to the railroad station. ICG GP38 9542 is the former GM&O 723, and this was one of the very few times I saw a former GM&O unit on this former GM&O branch. The parking lot on the left of the train was in front of an A&P Super Market, and the red brick building beyond there is the U. S. Post Office.The train is a little longer than usual, with 20 cars and a caboose. It has ATSF bulkhead flatcar 94582 for Poole Lumber, ICG 50' box car 516327 for Marsolan Feed, six insulated box cars of beer for the upcoming Labor Day weekend (BN 749009, 747248, ATSF 525287, MP 782085, 775592, 781662), four empty IC pulpwood cars which will be dropped off at Triangle Timber tomorrow (1829, 63660, 1599, 1199), two empty gondolas for the P&W scrap yard (CAGY 13035, SCL 130413), three more gondolas that will got out tomorrow (L&N 171416, 36677?, SCL 130640), caboose 199034, and three empty covered hoppers that were just picked up at USS Agri-Chem (ATSF 300620, IC 765333, ICG 765668). |
| Photo Date: |
8/28/1980 Upload Date: 1/21/2010 6:06:06 AM |
| Location: |
Covington, LA |
| Author: |
Michael Palmieri |
| Categories: |
Scenic |
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ICG 9542(GP38AC) |
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| Title: |
ICG Curve |
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This is the 5.75 degree curve that took the ICG Shore Line District off of East Gibson Street and north towards the former GM&O depot on North New Hampshire Street. When the East Louisiana Railroad built this line into Covington in 1888, its original depot was on the outside of this curve, where the trees are on the left of the track. The curved track was the main line, but it also formed the east leg of a wye. The track on East Gibson continued left and formed the south leg of the wye. The south and west legs connected about a block away, just past Vermont Street. |
| Photo Date: |
9/4/1979 Upload Date: 1/21/2010 6:08:44 AM |
| Location: |
Covington, LA |
| Author: |
Michael Palmieri |
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Scenic |
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| Title: |
ICG 8237 |
| Description: |
The northward Shore Line District local is crossing North New Hampshire Street in the curve just south of the former depot. The train has 17 cars: an empty SP box car, a loaded KCS box car for Marsolan Feed, three loaded beer cars, six empty pulpwood cars, two empty gondolas for the scrap yard, caboose 199034, three empty covered hoppers, and one empty box car. The four cars behind the caboose were picked up at USS Agri-Chem, about three miles east of here. |
| Photo Date: |
3/23/1981 Upload Date: 1/21/2010 6:06:46 AM |
| Location: |
Covington, LA |
| Author: |
Michael Palmieri |
| Categories: |
Scenic |
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ICG 8237(GP10) |
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| Title: |
ICG 8237 |
| Description: |
The northward Shore Line District Local is about to pass the former GM&O depot, which was being remodeled as a restaurant. The track in the foreground was originally the west leg of the East Louisiana Railroad wye. By this time, it was just a siding that served Marsolan Feed & Seed, a regular customer of the railroad; and was occasionally used as a team track. |
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3/23/1981 Upload Date: 1/21/2010 6:07:05 AM |
| Location: |
Covington, LA |
| Author: |
Michael Palmieri |
| Categories: |
Scenic |
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ICG 8237(GP10) |
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| Title: |
Depot |
| Description: |
This depot was built by the New Orleans-Great Northern in about 1921, and it was subsequently owned by the Gulf Mobile & Northern, Gulf Mobile & Ohio, and Illinois Central Gulf, although its use as a open agency ended before the 1972 merger of the IC and GM&O. The Illinois Central used the depot from the time it was constructed until it abandoned operation between Covington and Hammond in 1933. The building's brick construction reflected Covington's status as a Parish seat and the largest community along the Shore Line Branch, as the other depots along the line were wood.In 1930 the GM&N introduced the New Orleans-Covington ST. TAMMANY SPECIAL, a new Brill gasoline-electric motor train featuring a parlor-observation car; but this didn't last long. The Great Depression, increasing automobile ownership, and better roads all took their toll on railroad passenger service here, as well as most other branch lines. Throughout the 1930's service we provided by motorcars, including some leased from the Burlington Route. In 1939 the motorcar service was replaced by busses operated by GM&N subsidiary Gulf Transport. The building is located on North New Hampshire Street, between East Lockwood and East Kirkland; and has been used for various commercial purposes since the early 1980's. |
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3/20/1978 Upload Date: 1/21/2010 6:07:46 AM |
| Location: |
Covington, LA |
| Author: |
Michael Palmieri |
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Station |
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| Title: |
Switching |
| Description: |
ICG GP30 2272 and GP10 8237 were switching the northward Shore Line Branch local in front of the unused Covington depot. A few years later, the depot was renovated as a restaurant; but the railroad here was abandoned in 1991. The house track is still in place on the left, while siding on the right served the Alexius Brothers Hardware Store and Lumber Yard. |
| Photo Date: |
3/20/1978 Upload Date: 1/21/2010 10:13:40 AM |
| Location: |
Covington, LA |
| Author: |
Michael Palmieri |
| Categories: |
Station |
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ICG 2272(GP30) |
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1596 Comments: 2 |
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| Title: |
Shore Line Local |
| Description: |
The southward ICG Shore Line District local is parked on the main line in the P&W Industries scrap yard, just north of the former Covington depot. After the train arrived in Covington and did all of its switching, it would usually tie-up here, ready to depart for Bogalusa the next morning. By the time the crew parked their train, a railroad station wagon would be waiting to bring them back to Bogalusa; and the following morning, they would return to Covington and take the train back to Bogalusa. The local's locomotive had to use the wye at the end of the line to run around its train; so if the local arrived with its engine running long-hood forward, it would depart this way too. |
| Photo Date: |
4/9/1981 Upload Date: 6/21/2009 4:58:58 PM |
| Location: |
Covington, LA |
| Author: |
Michael Palmieri |
| Categories: |
Scenic,Action |
| Locomotives: |
ICG 8289(GP10) |
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1230 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
ICG 8202 |
| Description: |
After passing the Covington depot heading due north, the ICG Shore Line Branch made a 90 degree turn to the west right in the middle of the P&W Industries scrap yard. Here is the northward running through the scrap yard. Today's caboose was ICG 199034. |
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4/16/1979 Upload Date: 1/21/2010 10:11:51 AM |
| Location: |
Covington, LA |
| Author: |
Michael Palmieri |
| Categories: |
Scenic |
| Locomotives: |
ICG 8202(GP10) |
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1187 Comments: 3 |
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| Title: |
West 27th Street |
| Description: |
IC GP10 8033 leads the twice-weekly Shore Line District local along West 27th Street in Covington, near the end of its 65-mile trip from Bogalusa. It was also near the end of the line for this branch. The track was abandoned in 1991 and this area doesn't look anything like this anymore! Today's train had six cars: bulkhead flats TOE 4085 and 4037 with building material for Poole Lumber Co., insulated box car (RBL) MRS 2091 with beer for Champagne Beverage Co., and empty pulpwood cars IC 1472, GM&O 4028 and GM&O 3615. The caboose was ICG 199320, the regular car on this run, built in January 1976. |
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10/13/1983 Upload Date: 6/10/2009 3:23:08 PM |
| Location: |
Covington, LA |
| Author: |
Michael Palmieri |
| Categories: |
Scenic |
| Locomotives: |
IC 8033(GP10) |
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2890 Comments: 6 |
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| Title: |
Mile Branch |
| Description: |
The northward ICG Shore Line District local crossed Mile Branch at Bridge NA66.29. This is less than a mile from the end of the branch, and the only load left on the train is a bulkhead flat car of building material for Poole Lumber Co. |
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5/14/1979 Upload Date: 1/21/2010 10:16:19 AM |
| Location: |
Covington, LA |
| Author: |
Michael Palmieri |
| Categories: |
Bridge |
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ICG 8387(GP10) |
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1173 Comments: 4 |
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| Title: |
Wye-1 |
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This view was facing west near the end of the ICG Shore Line District on the west side of Covington, Louisiana. The track on the left was the south side of a wye, and once connected with a rail line from Baton Rouge via Hammond. This connecting line was completed into Covington in 1908 by a subsidiary of the Illinois Central, the Baton Rouge, Hammond & Eastern. The IC abandoned the track between here and Hammond in 1934 and subsequently sold it to the Gaylord Container Corp. so it could operate pulpwood trains from Hammond to Bogalusa via the GM&N. Gaylord became Crown Zellerbach, and the track was removed in 1972.The track curving off to the right is the east leg of the wye. Up until 1932 this was the main line north to Folsom, seven miles; but now it was just a short stub serving Poole Lumber Co. There was no run-around track in Covington, so the locomotive on the Shore Line local had to use the wye to get onto the opposite end of its train. |
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2/3/1980 Upload Date: 1/21/2010 10:13:08 AM |
| Location: |
Covington, LA |
| Author: |
Michael Palmieri |
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Scenic,Track |
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1388 Comments: 1 |
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| Title: |
Wye-2 |
| Description: |
This view was facing west near the end of the ICG Shore Line District on the west side of Covington, Louisiana. The track on the left was the south side of a wye, and once connected with a rail line from Baton Rouge via Hammond. This connecting line was completed into Covington in 1908 by a subsidiary of the Illinois Central, the Baton Rouge, Hammond & Eastern. The IC abandoned the track between here and Hammond in 1934 and subsequently sold it to the Gaylord Container Corp. so it could operate pulpwood trains from Hammond to Bogalusa via the GM&N. Gaylord became Crown Zellerbach, and the track was removed in 1972.The track curving off to the right is the east leg of the wye. Up until 1932 this was the main line north to Folsom, seven miles; but now it was just a short stub serving Poole Lumber Co. There was no run-around track in Covington, so the locomotive on the Shore Line local had to use the wye to get onto the opposite end of its train. The track here was abandoned in 1991. |
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2/3/1980 Upload Date: 1/11/2024 3:51:56 PM |
| Location: |
Covington, LA |
| Author: |
Michael Palmieri |
| Categories: |
Track |
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273 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
End of the Line |
| Description: |
This view was looking west – towards Hammond and Baton Rouge – near the end of the ICG Shore Line District on the west side of Covington, Louisiana. While the Shore Line was a former Gulf Mobile & Ohio/Gulf Mobile & Northern/New Orleans-Great Northern branch, the abandoned line between here and Hammond had been built by the Baton Rouge, Hammond & Eastern, which was controlled by the IC though the Yazoo & Mississippi Valley. The former IC track had been removed in about 1972 and the track here was abandoned in 1991. |
| Photo Date: |
2/3/1980 Upload Date: 1/11/2024 3:50:25 PM |
| Location: |
Covington, LA |
| Author: |
Michael Palmieri |
| Categories: |
Track |
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232 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
BRH&E |
| Description: |
This view was looking west -- towards Hammond and Baton Rouge -- from the very end of the ICG Shore Line District. While the Shore Line was a former Gulf Mobile & Ohio/Gulf Mobile & Northern/New Orleans-Great Northern branch, the abandoned line here had been built by the Baton Rouge, Hammond & Eastern, which was controlled by the IC though the Yazoo & Mississippi Valley. The track had been removed about eight years earlier; but the remains of a small bridge were left behind as a reminder of what once was here. |
| Photo Date: |
2/3/1980 Upload Date: 1/21/2010 10:12:32 AM |
| Location: |
Covington, LA |
| Author: |
Michael Palmieri |
| Categories: |
Scenic |
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1261 Comments: 1 |
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