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Viewing Album:  IC/ICG in Southern Illinois
 
By:TS _Illinois
Dates:6/17/1978 - 8/28/1989
Album Info:A random assortment of Illinois Central/Illinois Central Gulf photos taken in the late '70s through the '80s. Most are in the St. Louis area, though a few other locations are represented as well.
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ICG 5005
Title:  ICG 5005
Description:  I just saw a photo of this unit as IC 5005 (Rick Morgan's album "Illinois") in which it was observed that it needed a bath. Well, it eventually got one as well as new paint - the short-lived orange and black scheme. That livery never really caught on -- kinda like GE locos on the IC/ICG.
Photo Date:  6/17/1978  Upload Date: 8/31/2012 12:11:17 PM
Location:  Belleville, IL
Author:  TS _Illinois
Categories: 
Locomotives:  ICG 5005(U30B)
Views:  1487   Comments: 2
ICG 7954
Title:  ICG 7954
Description:  One of only a few GP8 photos that I have. This unit was originally P&LE GP7 #5682.
Photo Date:  3/3/1979  Upload Date: 3/8/2013 2:53:49 PM
Location:  Belleville, IL
Author:  TS _Illinois
Categories: 
Locomotives:  ICG 7954(GP8)
Views:  591   Comments: 0
ICG 9545
Title:  ICG 9545
Description:  An ex-GM&O GP38AC leads an eastbound coal train downgrade through Belleville, IL.
Photo Date:  4/16/1979  Upload Date: 5/27/2011 10:29:23 AM
Location:  Belleville, IL
Author:  TS _Illinois
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  ICG 9545(GP38AC)
Views:  543   Comments: 1
IC 8050
Title:  IC 8050
Description:  Westbound through Belleville in the Spring of 79.
Photo Date:  4/16/1979  Upload Date: 1/29/2013 9:52:43 AM
Location:  Belleville, IL
Author:  TS _Illinois
Categories: 
Locomotives:  IC 8050(GP10)
Views:  571   Comments: 0
IC 8159
Title:  IC 8159
Description:  GP10/GP18 combo run westbound through Belleville at S. 21st St.
Photo Date:  5/2/1979  Upload Date: 8/31/2012 12:41:02 PM
Location:  Belleville, IL
Author:  TS _Illinois
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  IC 8159(GP10) IC 9416(GP18)
Views:  995   Comments: 1
IC 9428
Title:  IC 9428
Description:  Two units still in Illinois Central Green Diamond livery move a westbound freight through Belleville, Il.
Photo Date:  5/19/1979  Upload Date: 5/27/2011 10:25:55 AM
Location:  Belleville, IL
Author:  TS _Illinois
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  IC 9428(GP18)
Views:  1080   Comments: 3
ICG 8004
Title:  ICG 8004
Description:  A unit coal train headed for the Baldwin power plant rumbles through Wilderman siding on a rainy afternoon.
Photo Date:  6/28/1979  Upload Date: 5/27/2011 10:36:28 AM
Location:  Belleville, IL
Author:  TS _Illinois
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  ICG 8004(GP10)
Views:  691   Comments: 0
ICG 9538
Title:  ICG 9538
Description:  A light engine cut idling at Wilderman siding
Photo Date:  6/28/1979  Upload Date: 3/8/2013 3:24:04 PM
Location:  Belleville, IL
Author:  TS _Illinois
Categories: 
Locomotives:  ICG 9538(GP38)
Views:  536   Comments: 0
ICG 3055
Title:  ICG 3055
Description:  This GP40 - seen here working the ICG/Conrail interchange in Effingham, IL - was built as IC 3055 in Feb 1967. In March 1982, it was sold to KCS where it became unit #791. It was later rebuilt to a GP40WH-2 and became MARC 65. By 9/2010 it was retired and would eventually end up in Boise, ID at Motive Power Industries. Who would have guessed back in '79 that it would have such a colorful history?.
Photo Date:  7/24/1979  Upload Date: 1/11/2013 11:37:24 AM
Location:  Effingham, IL
Author:  TS _Illinois
Categories: 
Locomotives:  ICG 3055(GP40) CR 6157(SD45) CR 6600(C30-7)
Views:  930   Comments: 1
ICG 3019
Title:  ICG 3019
Description:  Always kind of liked this shot as a good illustration of 70s railroading. This ICG crew is working the Conrail interchange in Effingham, Illinois and, yes, there are three guys at the head-end and thats the conductor walking the train with a portable radio slung over his shoulder. No EOTDs or two man crews back in those days!
Photo Date:  7/24/1979  Upload Date: 5/17/2011 9:15:34 PM
Location:  Effingham, IL
Author:  TS _Illinois
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  ICG 3019(GP40)
Views:  916   Comments: 2
IC 9353
Title:  IC 9353
Description:  Looking at this scene, you might well imagine it to be immediately post-merger with the Illinois Central Green Diamond geep leading the GM&O GP38. Only the trailing Paducah re-build suggest that it may be a bit later. It is, in fact, a full seven years and counting since the birth of Illinois Central Gulf as this freight rolls through Freeburg, Illinois the day after Christmas in 1979.
Photo Date:  12/26/1979  Upload Date: 5/17/2011 9:04:24 PM
Location:  Freeburg, IL
Author:  TS _Illinois
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  IC 9353(GP9) GMO 750(GP38-2)
Views:  959   Comments: 1
Rough day for 9214
Title:  Rough day for 9214
Description:  ICG didnt always have the best record for doing regular track maintenance -- at least not in the St. Louis area. That caught up to them on a winter day in 1980 when this GP9 and a half-dozen cars took a tumble from a westbound freight in Belleville.
Photo Date:  2/26/1980  Upload Date: 2/1/2013 10:47:21 AM
Location:  Belleville, IL
Author:  TS _Illinois
Categories: 
Locomotives:  IC 9214(GP9)
Views:  693   Comments: 0
IC 8234
Title:  IC 8234
Description:  Winter afternoon light is fading fast as 8234 idles on the mainline at S. 3rd St. in Belleville. This unit would sit there for quite a while longer as investigators and clean-up crews arrived to look after its very derailed train.
Photo Date:  2/26/1980  Upload Date: 8/31/2012 12:34:30 PM
Location:  Belleville, IL
Author:  TS _Illinois
Categories: 
Locomotives:  IC 8234(GP10) ICG 8463(GP10)
Views:  1051   Comments: 0
ICG 8705
Title:  ICG 8705
Description:  Roster shot of ICGs short-lived all orange paint scheme
Photo Date:  3/11/1980  Upload Date: 12/13/2012 11:59:24 PM
Location:  Belleville, IL
Author:  TS _Illinois
Categories:  Roster
Locomotives:  ICG 8705(GP11)
Views:  452   Comments: 0
IC 9415
Title:  IC 9415
Description:  Green Diamond livery on a GP18 at S. 21st St. in Belleville. Didn't worry about a little exhaust plume back in those days.
Photo Date:  7/5/1980  Upload Date: 8/31/2012 11:56:14 AM
Location:  Belleville, IL
Author:  TS _Illinois
Categories: 
Locomotives:  IC 9415(GP18) IC 9514(GP38AC)
Views:  704   Comments: 0
ICG 2529
Title:  ICG 2529
Description:  Ex-GM&O GP35s on an eastbound light engine cut headed through Belleville to the RiverKing coal mine in Freeburg.
Photo Date:  8/5/1980  Upload Date: 12/13/2012 11:44:59 PM
Location:  Belleville, IL
Author:  TS _Illinois
Categories: 
Locomotives:  ICG 2529(GP35) ICG 2522(GP35)
Views:  742   Comments: 0
ICG 8708
Title:  ICG 8708
Description:  GP11 westbound at Wilderman
Photo Date:  12/12/1980  Upload Date: 12/13/2012 11:54:05 PM
Location:  Belleville, IL
Author:  TS _Illinois
Categories: 
Locomotives:  ICG 8708(GP11) IC 9428(GP18)
Views:  907   Comments: 0
ICG 2009
Title:  ICG 2009
Description:  SD20s rumble up-grade through the bluffs west of Belleville
Photo Date:  1/2/1981  Upload Date: 1/18/2013 4:23:26 PM
Location:  Belleville, IL
Author:  TS _Illinois
Categories: 
Locomotives:  ICG 2009(SD20) ICG 2008(SD20)
Views:  559   Comments: 0
ICG GP40s
Title:  ICG GP40s
Description:  3015 and 3046 lead an eastbound through Wilderman siding
Photo Date:  1/2/1981  Upload Date: 2/1/2013 11:45:56 AM
Location:  Belleville, IL
Author:  TS _Illinois
Categories: 
Locomotives:  ICG 3015(GP40) ICG 3046(GP40)
Views:  600   Comments: 0
ICG 9547 & 8031
Title:  ICG 9547 & 8031
Description:  The 2nd unit on this train led an interesting life. It started out as IC GP9 9031. Post ICG, it wnt to Iowa Interstate where it was eventually re-painted and re-numbered 431. From there it went to lessor Power Source Supply Inc (PWSX) in May of 2005.
Photo Date:  3/6/1981  Upload Date: 3/8/2013 3:02:52 PM
Location:  Belleville, IL
Author:  TS _Illinois
Categories: 
Locomotives:  ICG 9547(GP38AC) ICG 8031(GP10)
Views:  611   Comments: 0
IC 9334
Title:  IC 9334
Description:  Filling out the roster with this GP9 still in the not-quite-so-Green-anymore Diamond paint scheme.
Photo Date:  3/28/1981  Upload Date: 3/8/2013 3:09:05 PM
Location:  Belleville, IL
Author:  TS _Illinois
Categories: 
Locomotives:  IC 9334(GP9) ICG 8110(GP10)
Views:  612   Comments: 0
Paducah Rebuilds
Title:  Paducah Rebuilds
Description:  An all "rebuild" lash-up rumbles past my old alma mater in Belleville, IL.
Photo Date:  4/2/1981  Upload Date: 5/27/2011 8:28:32 PM
Location:  Belleville, IL
Author:  TS _Illinois
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  ICG 8173(GP10) ICG 7984(GP8)
Views:  738   Comments: 0
ICG 8229
Title:  ICG 8229
Description:  Another all orange roster shot, this time at S. 28th St. in Belleville.
Photo Date:  4/2/1981  Upload Date: 12/14/2012 12:11:02 AM
Location:  Belleville, IL
Author:  TS _Illinois
Categories:  Roster
Locomotives:  ICG 8229(GP10) ICG 8046(GP10)
Views:  909   Comments: 0
ICG 459
Title:  ICG 459
Description:  An ICG SW9 works the interchanges in Woodriver, IL. This unit would be re-built to an SW14 (ICG 1497) later this same year.
Photo Date:  8/6/1981  Upload Date: 5/27/2011 8:31:39 PM
Location:  Wood River, IL
Author:  TS _Illinois
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  ICG 459(SW9)
Views:  870   Comments: 0
IC 8014
Title:  IC 8014
Description:  I remember at the time often being disappointed to see a re-built GP8 or GP10 on the point of an ICG freight -- why not that cool GP40 right behind it? I suppose time changes your view. Now I appreciate them for the somewhat exotic - if not attractive - creatures they were.
Photo Date:  8/10/1981  Upload Date: 1/22/2013 1:34:06 PM
Location:  Freeburg, IL
Author:  TS _Illinois
Categories: 
Locomotives:  IC 8014(GP10) ICG 3025(GP40)
Views:  700   Comments: 0
ICG 2017
Title:  ICG 2017
Description:  SD20s lead a coal manifest through Wilderman siding in Belleville, IL. Lead unit is ex-Southern SD24 2506.
Photo Date:  8/14/1981  Upload Date: 5/27/2011 8:34:46 PM
Location:  Belleville, IL
Author:  TS _Illinois
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  ICG 2017(SD20) ICG 2019(SD20)
Views:  1150   Comments: 1
ICG 8173
Title:  ICG 8173
Description:  A lone GP10 handles the local in Effingham, IL on a bright summer day.
Photo Date:  8/18/1981  Upload Date: 5/27/2011 10:33:00 AM
Location:  Effingham, IL
Author:  TS _Illinois
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  ICG 8173(GP10)
Views:  795   Comments: 0
ICG 9513
Title:  ICG 9513
Description:  GP38ACs rumble past the depot in Effingham, IL.
Photo Date:  8/18/1981  Upload Date: 5/27/2011 8:38:10 PM
Location:  Effingham, IL
Author:  TS _Illinois
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  ICG 9513(GP38AC) ICG 9549(GP38AC)
Views:  766   Comments: 0
ICG 9635
Title:  ICG 9635
Description:  GP38-2 "James C. Clarke" growls upgrade through Belleville, IL as a thunderstorm builds in the background.
Photo Date:  9/16/1981  Upload Date: 5/27/2011 8:40:53 PM
Location:  Belleville, IL
Author:  TS _Illinois
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  ICG 9635(GP38-2)
Views:  553   Comments: 0
IC 8318
Title:  IC 8318
Description:  GP10 leads a brace of Green Diamond GP18s from different orders: 9408 from an early order of the high-nosed version, 9428 the later low-nose. The units are seen here at Wilderman siding in Belleville.
Photo Date:  11/27/1981  Upload Date: 8/31/2012 12:25:46 PM
Location:  Belleville, IL
Author:  TS _Illinois
Categories: 
Locomotives:  IC 8318(GP10) IC 9408(GP18) IC 9428(GP18)
Views:  971   Comments: 0
ICG 2011
Title:  ICG 2011
Description:  Three different types of rebuilds lead this general consist freight through Freeburg, IL.
Photo Date:  11/27/1981  Upload Date: 5/27/2011 8:44:05 PM
Location:  Freeburg, IL
Author:  TS _Illinois
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  ICG 2011(SD20) ICG 8015(GP10) ICG 7719(GP8)
Views:  862   Comments: 0
IC 8348
Title:  IC 8348
Description:  ICG sometimes put helpers on eastbound coal trains out of E. St. Louis: power to go up the bluffs west of Belleville; extra braking for the down-grade east of town.
Photo Date:  12/4/1981  Upload Date: 3/8/2013 3:16:43 PM
Location:  Belleville, IL
Author:  TS _Illinois
Categories: 
Locomotives:  IC 8348(GP10) ICG 9430(GP28)
Views:  698   Comments: 0
ICG 8184
Title:  ICG 8184
Description:  A GP10 idles on the helper track at the River King #1 coal mine in Freeburg, IL.
Photo Date:  12/10/1981  Upload Date: 5/27/2011 8:46:14 PM
Location:  Freeburg, IL
Author:  TS _Illinois
Categories:  Roster
Locomotives:  ICG 8184(GP10)
Views:  613   Comments: 1
ICG 8128
Title:  ICG 8128
Description:  Eastbound waits in the Winter gloom for an approaching westbound at Wilderman siding
Photo Date:  1/20/1982  Upload Date: 3/15/2013 11:22:15 AM
Location:  Belleville, IL
Author:  TS _Illinois
Categories: 
Locomotives:  ICG 8128(GP10) IC 8235(GP10) ICG 8183(GP10)
Views:  906   Comments: 0
ICG 9632
Title:  ICG 9632
Description:  Even a gloomy winter day can yield the occasional pleasant surprise. Here, GP38-2 John F. Wallace leads its consist past a freight waiting in the hole at Wilderman siding in Belleville, IL.
Photo Date:  1/20/1982  Upload Date: 5/29/2011 5:06:03 PM
Location:  Belleville, IL
Author:  TS _Illinois
Categories:  Winter,Action
Locomotives:  ICG 9632(GP38-2) ICG 8128(GP10) ICG 8235(GP10)
Views:  926   Comments: 0
ICG 8311
Title:  ICG 8311
Description:  Snowy, foggy Winter day as this freight worked eastbound past S. 8th Street in Belleville
Photo Date:  2/17/1982  Upload Date: 3/15/2013 10:56:12 AM
Location:  Belleville, IL
Author:  TS _Illinois
Categories: 
Locomotives:  ICG 8311(GP10) ICG 8086(GP10)
Views:  532   Comments: 0
ICG 9516
Title:  ICG 9516
Description:  GP38AC on the point westbound at S. 29th St. in Belleville.
Photo Date:  3/16/1982  Upload Date: 8/31/2012 12:03:22 PM
Location:  Belleville, IL
Author:  TS _Illinois
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  ICG 9516(GP38AC) ICG 3068(GP40) IC 8236(GP10)
Views:  1151   Comments: 2
ICG 2511
Title:  ICG 2511
Description:  Two ex-GM&O GP35s - one still in original colors - westbound for Valley yard
Photo Date:  5/1/1982  Upload Date: 1/18/2013 4:31:54 PM
Location:  Belleville, IL
Author:  TS _Illinois
Categories: 
Locomotives:  ICG 2511(GP35) GMO 638(GP35)
Views:  733   Comments: 0
ICG 7963
Title:  ICG 7963
Description:  You could pretty much count on ICG to provide a fair amount of variety back in the day. This train rolled by the weather-beaten remains of the old passenger depot in Freeburg, IL with five units -- one GP8, one GP10, one GP11 (in the short-lived all orange paint scheme), a GP30, and a GP35 still wearing GM&O number and colors. ICG was nothing if not colorful back then.
Photo Date:  5/12/1982  Upload Date: 5/29/2011 4:57:04 PM
Location:  Freeburg, IL
Author:  TS _Illinois
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  ICG 7963(GP8) ICG 8460(GP10) ICG 2257(GP30) GMO 601(GP35) ICG 8703(GP11)
Views:  1412   Comments: 2
ICG 2027
Title:  ICG 2027
Description:  A pair of SD20s lead this train into the hole at Wilderman siding in Belleville, IL.
Photo Date:  8/3/1982  Upload Date: 5/29/2011 4:59:32 PM
Location:  Belleville, IL
Author:  TS _Illinois
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  ICG 2027(SD20)
Views:  597   Comments: 1
ICG 2519
Title:  ICG 2519
Description:  An ex-GM&O GP35 works its train eastbound through Belleville, IL.
Photo Date:  8/19/1982  Upload Date: 5/29/2011 5:02:20 PM
Location:  Belleville, IL
Author:  TS _Illinois
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  ICG 2519(GP35)
Views:  551   Comments: 0
IC 3003
Title:  IC 3003
Description:  All kinds of stuff going on here: IC in black, IC in orange & white, GM&O, a friendly wave from the engineer, and the most freshly ballasted track EVER -- all at Wilderman siding in Belleville, IL.
Photo Date:  8/30/1982  Upload Date: 11/15/2011 12:59:45 AM
Location:  Belleville, IL
Author:  TS _Illinois
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  IC 3003(GP40) ICG 3033(GP40) GMO 911(SD40)
Views:  788   Comments: 0
Blank GP30
Title:  Blank GP30
Description:  2257 eastbound at Wilderman is conspicuously absent its lettering.
Photo Date:  9/25/1982  Upload Date: 12/13/2012 11:49:11 PM
Location:  Belleville, IL
Author:  TS _Illinois
Categories: 
Locomotives:  ICG 2257(GP30)
Views:  744   Comments: 0
ICG 8394
Title:  ICG 8394
Description:  A GP10 and its GM&O companion lead a very short TOFC consist past the yard in Woodriver, IL.
Photo Date:  5/10/1984  Upload Date: 5/29/2011 4:51:11 PM
Location:  Wood River, IL
Author:  TS _Illinois
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  ICG 8394(GP10)
Views:  629   Comments: 0
ICG 6004
Title:  ICG 6004
Description:  OK, this one is not in Southern Illinois. This unit coal train is on the Missouri Pacific heading estbound into St. Louis. ICG ran coal drags on MOP from Kansas City to power plants in Illinois. Even though those plants are in the middle of Illinois coal mining country, they had to import low-sulphur coal from Wyoming to meet EPA requirements.
Photo Date:  9/6/1984  Upload Date: 5/27/2011 10:43:30 AM
Location:  Pacific, MO
Author:  TS _Illinois
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  ICG 6004(SD40)
Views:  918   Comments: 4
ICG 1465
Title:  ICG 1465
Description:  SW14 with slug in tow switches the Centralia marshaling yard
Photo Date:  3/5/1985  Upload Date: 1/18/2013 3:19:47 PM
Location:  Centralia, IL
Author:  TS _Illinois
Categories: 
Locomotives:  ICG 1465(SW14) ICG 55(Yard Slug)
Views:  709   Comments: 0
ICG 6002
Title:  ICG 6002
Description:  In the Fall of 86 I stumbled upon a string of SD40s in the MoPac/UP Chouteau Ave yard in St. Louis. For years I had assumed that they were bound for either re-sale or a more inglorious fate. Such was not the case, however, for ICG 6002. It would be re-built to an SD40-2R and continue to ply the rails in IC black for another 20+ years. .
Photo Date:  11/28/1986  Upload Date: 3/15/2013 11:13:12 AM
Location:  Saint Louis, MO
Author:  TS _Illinois
Categories: 
Locomotives:  ICG 6002(SD40) MP 6029(SD40-2)
Views:  691   Comments: 0
ICG 9608
Title:  ICG 9608
Description:  Cold afternoon shadows fall on this work train in Belleville
Photo Date:  1/20/1987  Upload Date: 1/18/2013 4:07:46 PM
Location:  Belleville, IL
Author:  TS _Illinois
Categories: 
Locomotives:  ICG 9608(GP38-2) ICG 9510(GP38AC)
Views:  670   Comments: 0
Interesting locos
Title:  Interesting locos
Description:  There is a real beauty of a portrait of this lead GP40 by Andrew Koenigsberg (in his album Some misc. roster shots) from the Summer of 1978. Lets just say that by the Winter of 87, it was looking pretty rough. The 2nd unit is interesting not just because it is still in GM&O colors, but because there are two different stories about its eventual fate. One has it going to Goderich & Exeter 9543 (later re-numbered GEXR 3835), The other having it end up with NECR via Conrail and then Helm Leasing. Guess I'll need to look into that further..
Photo Date:  1/22/1987  Upload Date: 3/8/2013 2:43:51 PM
Location:  Belleville, IL
Author:  TS _Illinois
Categories: 
Locomotives:  ICG 3007(GP40) GMO 724(GP38AC)
Views:  729   Comments: 0
Theres something you don't see anymore
Title:  Theres something you don't see anymore
Description:  Wow, does anything say 1980s quite like the old Dodge Rampage? Always found them to be rather unfortunate looking vehicles myself. But speaking of not seeing it anymore, you certainly won't see this or any other railroad action in Red Bud, IL anymore. Rather surprised to find there are no other photos from this location. -- I know there are some out there. Here, an ex-GM&O geep trundles a local turn along the - now abandoned - ex-GM&O line past the ex-GM&O depot in the Spring of 87.
Photo Date:  5/12/1987  Upload Date: 1/8/2013 4:11:09 PM
Location:  Red Bud, IL
Author:  TS _Illinois
Categories:  Station,Action
Locomotives:  ICG 9565(GP38-2)
Views:  858   Comments: 1

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