ICG 8323 and GMO 742 work the local industries in Kankakee on a nice October afternoon. Paul Meyer photo.

A pair of engines still lettered for Illinois Central, SD40A 6010 and SD40 6067 sandwich Illinois Central Gulf GP8 #7700 at a ballast pit North of Fulton, Kentucky.

Two examples of the ICG's famous rebuild program are seen right here. SW14 #1426 and SW1300 #1302B are today's power for the transfer between Markham Yard and the B&OCT's Barr Yard. Tom Golden p... (more)

Illinois Central Gulf GP8 #7721 was built April 1952 as Illinois Central GP7 #8954. In 1977, unit was rebuilt into a GP8. Unit left ICG roster 8/24/1992

Illinois Central SD40A #6018 was built August 1969. Unit was later re# Illinois Central Gulf #6018. In April 1995, unit was rebuilt into SD40-2R and re# back to IC #6018

Illinois Central Gulf SD20 #2032 was orginally built in June 1953 as Union Pacific SD7 #783 (later re# UP 458). Later became Illinois Central #2032 before leaving roster to become NREX #2032 and l... (more)

Gulf, Mobile & Ohio GP35 #607 was built March 1964 and scrapped in 1987.

A pair of switch crews utilizing GP10s work ICG's main Mobile yard. That's Telegraph Road in the background, with the Southern yard to the left, and the Frisco/BN to the right.

A former GM&O GP30 is in familiar territory as it sits in front of the old roundhouse at Montgomery's West End Yard.

A few of the tracks shown in this photo are still around and in use in 2012, and there's at least a chance some of those orange and white Paducah rebuilds might still be creeping around a short li... (more)

Mobile was more generally B-B territory in GM&O and ICG days, but the C-Cs did make their way to the Gulf shores occasionally. On this nice January day 6044 - one of ten ex-CRI&P units acquired af... (more)

Winter sunset in Kansas City
A Illinois Central Gulf freight heads east at Signal Bridge 19 at Sheffield Tower in Kansas City, Missouri, on December 8, 1985. This is on the Kansas City ... (more)

An Artesia-bound freight is just a couple miles out of Montgomery's West End Yard. Ex-GM&O 635 and a trio of Paducah rebuilds are in charge, as the head end passes a speed limit sign and whistle b... (more)

A trio of SW14s and their caboose make the return trip to Markham Yard after dropping off a transfer to the B&OCT at Barr Yard. Tom Golden photo.

With the merger of the Gulf Mobile & Ohio (GM&O) to the Illinois Central on August 10, 1972, a new railroad name would be created, thus the Illinois Central Gulf was born. Along with a new name w... (more)