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Owner: Illinois Central
Model:EMD GP7Built As:IC 8800 (GP7)
Serial Number:15894Order No:6362
Frame Number:6362-1Built:1/1952
Other locos with this serial:  AKMD 908(GP8) ICG 7908(GP8) IC 8800(GP7)
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IC Train 208
Title:  IC Train 208
Description:  It's a few minutes after 5 P.M. and Illinois Central train No. 208, the NORTHEASTERN LIMITED, has just backed out of Shreveport Union Station and is now moving forward, beginning its 313-mile, 9-hour journey to Meridian, Mississippi and a connection with the Southern Railway's northbound PELICAN. Today's train has four mail-and-express cars, a Railway Post Office and three coaches, although it typically ran with just one coach. In the station, Kansas City Southern train No. 10 from New Orleans is being combined with train No. 16 which originated in Port Arthur and will soon depart for Kansas City.

IC No. 208 - and its counterpart No. 205 - would be discontinued between Vicksburg and Meridian on 24 October 1967, and between Shreveport and Vicksburg on 30 March 1968. (approximate date of photo)

Photo Date:  8/15/1964  Upload Date: 6/25/2016 1:28:49 PM
Location:  Shreveport, LA
Author:  J. Parker Lamb photo
Categories:  Station,Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  IC 8800(GP7)
Views:  1234   Comments: 0
Dual Control Engine
Title:  Dual Control Engine
Description:  This engine was still equiped with Dual Controls at the time of this picture. This engine was previously used on IC passenger trains. Here, it is sitting on the Pitt Track infront of the depot. Photo by Fred Goff.
Photo Date:  8/1/1974  Upload Date: 7/1/2009 1:44:32 PM
Location:  Grenada, MS
Author:  Fred Goff
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Locomotives:  IC 8800(GP7)
Views:  1546   Comments: 0


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