ICG SW14s 1409 and 1408 are paired up on a caboose hop at Markham Yard, Homewood, IL on June 30, 1979. These units had uniquely rebuilt cabs, similar to a GP35 changing their look quite a bit from... (more)

The daily freight between Superior, WI and Minneapolis 'rounds the corner and approaches the NP diamond at Hinkley, MN on Memorial Day weekend in 1970. The missing Rocky logo is a sign of the BN m... (more)

IC SD70 1007 sits dead in the backtrack at Entrance due to unresolved issues earlier in the morning.

Illinois Central SW14 1497 shoves hard back into Kirk Yard. Come July, this unit will be 64 years old. Still runs like a champ!

Southbound ICG pig train Chatawa

Illinois Central Gulf GP8 #7720, a 1977 Paducah rebuild from Frisco GP7 #623, originally built in 1952, left the ICG roster and went to the Atlantic & Gulf Railway

GM&O's SD40s didn't visit Birmingham prior to the ICG merger due to restrictions on the L&N line used to reach B'ham from home rails at Tuscaloosa. After the merger, they became frequent sights a... (more)

Two Great Northern F’s await their next assignment at Portland, Oregon on April 11, 1969. Portland’s Union Station Tower is in the background.

ICG's second BiCentennial painted locomotive (the first was destroyed in a tragic crossing accident in MS) leads an exIC exGMO and three brand new units for Sonora Baja California out of the roads... (more)

A southbound Illinois Central coal train passes concrete monuments to another era as it rumbles by the long-abandoned coaling towers at Gilman, Illinois, on May 5, 1990.

A 3-unit Great Northern Railway F7#308 A-B-A are leaving Minneapolis with a westbound manifest as they meet a Burlington Route (CB&Q) freight in Chinese Red powered by EMD's second generation d... (more)

A short Illinois Central Gulf local, powered by SW14 1436 (originally Illinois Central NW2 1013, rebuilt in 1980), is seen in Memphis, Tennessee, on the last day of February in 1983.

Illinois Central Gulf GP30 No. 2275 rests at ICG’s Bloomington, Illinois, engine facility in May 1984. The locomotive is a former Gulf, Mobile and Ohio unit (equipped with Alco trucks from a tra... (more)

Illinois Central train CHG passes Tuscola Tower (TY) at Tuscola, Illinois, on June 12, 1990. This tower was operated by the IC until closed in October 1992; protecting the crossing of the IC with ... (more)

The ICG has been around for 3 years, but if you can ignore that 3rd unit (an ex-IC Paducah rebuild), this scene at Tuscaloosa looks like the good old days. This train has come from the old GM&O m... (more)