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Illinois Central Gulf Railroad SW14 1498 at Memphis, Tennessee on April 6, 1984, Kodachrome by Chuck Zeiler. Number 1498 was built during June 1952 as IC SW9 9481 ( c/n 16423 ), later renumbered to 481. During 1981 it was rebuilt at Paducah, Kentucky to SW14 1498. Note between the units was a stopped BN train. This was an absolute stop crossing, highway STOP signs can be seen on the pole beyond the front of the trailing ICG unit.
Illinois Central Gulf Railroad SW9 1234 at Hawthorne Yard in Cicero, Illinois on an unknown day in October 1979, Kodachrome by Chuck Zeiler. Built as IC SW9 9334 in November 1952 (c/n 16441) on EMD Order 4184, it was renumbered to ICG 1234, then rebuilt to SW14 1446 during 1980. The rails crossing in front are the Belt Railway of Chicago.
Illinois Central #1495 is an SW14, rebuilt from an SW8.
As an SW8, it was originally built in 1951. Remarkably, it was still active in 2017 as CN #1495 www.rrpicturearchives.net/showPicture.aspx?id=4817858
Union Pacific Job 31 was pushing out of Beverly yard for the ADM plant in Cedar Rapids in 1997.
UP GP15-1 1723 and borrowed Crandic SW14 109 and GP9 100 were provided some unusual entertainment as they pounded past.
IC 1498 is working President's Island in Memphis as the RPI14 train. This engine was built in 1952 as a SW9.
Following on from the previous photo is another well presented Volvo, also seen on Park Lane, London, in early 11/1992. It was new to Richardson(Sheenway), London, SW14, in 03/1986, Sheenway being bought by the well known Byfleet based Tellings-Golden Miller in 1991.
The camera being a Praktica MTL3 with the film being the excellent 'Fujichrome' colourslide.
I would request, as with all my photos, that they are not copied or downloaded in any way, shape or form. © Peter Steel 1992.
Illinois Central Gulf Railroad SW14 1440 and 1429 at about Damen Avenue and I-55 in Chicago, Illinois on August 10, 1987, Kodachrome by Chuck Zeiler.
Technically, this was still an ICG scene in June 1988, but some power was already being repainted into the new IC paint scheme as seen on SW14 No. 1403 at Brighton Park.
Twin IC SW14's power the Whiting Job, one of the very few times that they ever did this. Usually the job was required to have a toliet equipped unit in the consist.
I just about peed myself when I saw this train from the Cline Avenue overpass in the background. Good thing that I was early for work that day, because there was no way that I was not going to chase this job to Whiting!
East Chicago, IN
Photo by John Eagan
Illinois Central Gulf Railroad SW14 1401 at Hawthorne Yard in Cicero, Illinois on October 15, 1983, Kodachrome by Chuck Zeiler.
Progress Rail SW14 # 1444 ( ex IC ) just in to MEI off a lease in Texas. Taken Dec 29th 2016 with permission
A rare IC SW14 leads R980 past the soon to fall NYC searchlights at CP 502 in East Chicago, IN. Who knows how long this SW14 has left.
Illinois Central SW14 1505 and Elgin Joliet & Eastern SW1001 446 bring a transfer into the CN-EJ&E Whiting Yard in E. Chicago, IN June 5, 2011. Looks like they haven't completed the scenery on this part of the layout yet.
Going thru More files, I found this one - It's ICG SW14 1447 in Jackson, Misissippi. Canon F-1, Canon FD 50mm 1.8 Lens, Kodachrome 64, Epson 4990 scan.
Illinois Central EMD SW14 No. 1452 and sister SW14 No. 1511 pull a transfer run north through Kensington on the south side of Chicago. No. 1452 was built in 1881, (Scanned from color negative film)
ICG SW14 1424 sits outside the Glenn Yard engine house. She was built in 1950 as the #9319, but with the arrival of the GP9's was renumbered to 1219.
You might call this the "Long and short of it." A pair of ICG SW14's are leaving out the South Open light power after delivering an Interchange while two C&O SD40's are pulling down the main with 100 loads and 98 empties on an Advance Dixie/98 combo. This train was one of the longest I almost dispatched in my career. I said almost because I had started this bad boy on his way east. The crew went on duty 0700 CST and had come out the spring switch onto what was then #2 Main. They had wandered down to Perry Ave for their air test, and I was getting ready to cut them loose when Greg Kredens, my relief, walked in the door. Thank God! He had the pleasure of trying to get this monster through eight interlockings, all in the hands of foreign railroad operators.
Southbound toward Ojibway Yard near midday, the ETR's two switchers, SW14 104 and SW1500 107, lead about 40 cars over the crossing at Prince Rd in Windsor.
ADM Transportation SW14 ADMX 1431 (ex-SW7 IC 9311, blt. EMD, Cleveland, Ohio, 10/50)
Awaiting next duty
ADM Grain Terminal, Beaver Channel Parkway, Clinton, Iowa
October 3rd, 2002
1600 x 1050
After working their newest customer, MotiPark/FCA, the crew of ETL 108 head back for their Lincoln Road shops a block away. MotiPark is a recent branch of Essex Terminal Railway/Morterm Limited that opened last year on the former GM Transmission Plant property. They turned the land the factory occupied and all of the accompanying employee parking lots into storage lots and loading areas for brand new Dodge Grand Caravans and Chrysler Pacificas built at the nearby FCA Windsor Assembly Plant. Although the storage lot had been set up about a year ago, proper rail service just started last week with local railfans buzzing about seeing autoracks and a new customer on ETR, especially in an area of ETR's network that has seen several customers close/terminate rail service over the last few years (GM, Ford, and Hearn Group). So far it looks like this will be a high carload customer for ETR with the entire loading area full and a line of recently loaded racks sitting in their yard off Lincoln just west of this crossing when this photo was taken. I've been bit by the ETR bug the last few weeks and it seems every time I've gone out to shoot them I've been lucky with good light and photo opportunities.
Train: ETR local with ETL 108 (GP9) and ETL 104 (SW14).
ETR Branch
Windsor, ON.
12/2021 - Raceland, KY
More miscellaneous PRLX power. PRLX 1444 SW14 (nee IC SW7), PRLX 4017 GP40 (nee NW), PRLX 7079 GP9RM (nee CN GP9).
A bevy of old locomotives await an uncertain fate on the grounds of Progress Rail Services in Waycross back in 2007. Many of these train engines have no doubt been scrapped in the intervening dozens years. The engine nearest us is an old Illinois Central SW14, no known visible number.
Next to it is the Progress Rail (PRSX) 3608. It was built in 1980 as the Atchison Topeka & Santa Fe (ATSF) #7491, a GE B36-7. It then became BC Rail #3608 and then was sold to Progress Rail and likely scrapped after this photograph was made.
On the next track over is another B36-7 that was also built for the Santa Fe in 1980, ATSF #7496, then BC Rail #3613. After this shot was made, she was sold to the Ohio Central Railroad as OHCR 3613.
On the track next to the BC Rail 3613 is CP 5831. It is an EMD SD40-2 built for the Canadian Pacific in 1974. After this shot was made, it was sold to America Latina Logistica in Brazil and became ALL 9480.
Illinois Central Gulf Railroad SW14 1454 at Cedar Falls, Iowa on June 11, 1983, Kodachrome by Jim Altman, Chuck Zeiler collection. Built in December 1949 as IC TR2B 9207B ( c/n 10057 ) on EMD Order 6007, it was renumbered to 1029B. During 1981 it was rebuilt to SW14 1454, sold November 5, 1999 to Railtrust, Hatiesburg, Mississippi.
Illinois Central Gulf Railroad SW14 1442 at Memphis, Tennessee on June 20, 1986, Kodachrome by Chuck Zeiler, This locomotive was built as road number 9480 in June 1952 (c/n 16422) on EMD Order 4123. It was renumbered to 480 and in 1980 rebuilt to SW14 1442. On September 15, 1999 it moved on to National Railway Equipment, becoming NREX 1442 and later WVSR 1442. The gentleman on the frontwas Bill ( Wild Bill ) Catledge, a.k.a 'Popeye'. They started calling him Popeye possibly because he was ex-Navy.