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By:Joe Marascalco
Dates:1/1/1954 - 6/21/1981
Album Info:Covers the former IC trackage between Cairo, IL and Jackson, TN. Today, this line is operated by the CN from Cairo to Fulton. The West Tennessee operates from Fulton to Jackson.
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BC2 departing
Title:  BC2 departing
Description:  Train BC2, Birmingham to Chicago, departs Jackson, TN. Date is approx. From the collection of Fred Goff.
Photo Date:  1/1/1954  Upload Date: 12/24/2010 4:00:08 AM
Location:  Jackson, TN
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Views:  587   Comments: 3
The Creole
Title:  The Creole
Description:  Train #8, the northbound Creole, is stopped at the platform at Cairo. From the collection of Fred Goff.
Photo Date:  4/17/1954  Upload Date: 12/24/2010 3:37:40 AM
Location:  Cairo, IL
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Locomotives:  IC 4003(E6A)
Views:  995   Comments: 0
The Creole
Title:  The Creole
Description:  Train #8, the northbound Creole, is stopped at the platform at Cairo and is in the process of changing crews. The inbound crew took the train at Memphis and the outbound took the train to Centralia. From the collection of Fred Goff.
Photo Date:  5/1/1954  Upload Date: 12/24/2010 3:40:25 AM
Location:  Cairo, IL
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Locomotives:  IC 4021(E8A)
Views:  737   Comments: 2
Looking back at the train
Title:  Looking back at the train
Description:  The photographer looks out of the engineer's side of what is probably the Southern Express as the train comes off of the Ohio River bridge and into Kentucky. From the collection of Fred Goff.
Photo Date:  5/15/1954  Upload Date: 12/24/2010 3:56:40 AM
Location:  Cairo, IL
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Views:  576   Comments: 0
Passing the Creole
Title:  Passing the Creole
Description:  IC 4024 is leading the northbound Creole as it comes off of the Ohio River Bridge and into Cairo. The train the picture was taken from was most likely the southbound Southern Express.
Photo Date:  5/15/1954  Upload Date: 12/24/2010 3:47:27 AM
Location:  Cairo, IL
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Locomotives:  IC 4024(E8A)
Views:  839   Comments: 2
Southern Express
Title:  Southern Express
Description:  Train #25, the Southern Express, stops at Cairo. From the collection of Fred Goff.
Photo Date:  5/25/1954  Upload Date: 12/24/2010 3:52:51 AM
Location:  Cairo, IL
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Locomotives:  IC 4007(E7A)
Views:  704   Comments: 1
The Creole
Title:  The Creole
Description:  Train #8, the northbound Creole, is stopped at the platform at Cairo. From the collection of Fred Goff.
Photo Date:  5/29/1954  Upload Date: 12/24/2010 3:44:12 AM
Location:  Cairo, IL
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Locomotives:  IC 4016(E7A)
Views:  897   Comments: 2
City of Miami
Title:  City of Miami
Description:  NO.52, the northbound City of Miami coming around a curve just south of Sharon. Date is approx.
Photo Date:  1/1/1970  Upload Date: 6/18/2011 8:27:07 AM
Location:  Sharon, TN
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Views:  319   Comments: 1
City of Miami
Title:  City of Miami
Description:  NO.52, the northbound City of Miami coming around a curve just north of Medina. Date is approx.
Photo Date:  1/1/1970  Upload Date: 8/24/2011 4:29:08 PM
Location:  Medina, TN
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Locomotives:  IC 4021(E8A)
Views:  611   Comments: 0
2 engines and caboose
Title:  2 engines and caboose
Description:  The only info I have on this train is that it was the EX 3009 SOUTH
Photo Date:  6/21/1981  Upload Date: 6/18/2011 8:34:30 AM
Location:  Milan, TN
Author:  William Davis
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Locomotives:  IC 9438(GP28) IC 3009(GP40)
Views:  1067   Comments: 5
crew change
Title:  crew change
Description:  Chicago to Birmingham freight SE-1 stops at Cairo to change crews. The outbound crew will take the train to Jackson, TN and change crews again.
Photo Date:  6/11/1988  Upload Date: 9/16/2014 3:53:05 PM
Location:  Cairo, IL
Author:  Kirk Reynolds
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Locomotives:  IC 6013(SD40A) ICG 9451(SD28)
Views:  733   Comments: 0
Q197
Title:  Q197
Description:  Train Q197 (Memphis-Prince Rupert, British Columbia) is stopped on Main 1 at North Buda on the Cairo District waiting to change crews. Notice the white class lights are on. The engineer displayed white lights all the way from Memphis to Fulton account this being an extra train.
Photo Date:  7/24/2014  Upload Date: 7/31/2014 12:10:43 PM
Location:  Fulton, KY
Author:  Joe Marascalco
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Locomotives:  CN 2444(C40-8M)
Views:  159   Comments: 2


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