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Oversize: Gulf Mobile & Northern Engine 255, shown with company officials and engineers, Arrival of first train inaugurating through freight service via GM&N and CB&Q, Paducah, Ky., Aug. 1, 1926

 File — Box: + 7, Folder: 271
Identifier: IC:A Photo-2

Scope and Contents note

From the Series:

Includes pictures of locomotives, passenger cars, rails, stations, and other structures owned by the company, including bridges, steamboats, and car ferries. The folders entitled "Thebes Bridge Photo Book" is the disbound series of 73 cyanotype photographs of the construction of the railroad bridge in Thebes, Ill.; lists of the individual photographs are housed in the folders. For more engines photos, see also Series 3, Box 3, Folder 65: Documentary, folder entitled, "Chicago Lakefront, Cairo Bridge, and various other shots (including early locomotives), 1893 (photos by R.A. Beck)".

Dates

  • Creation: Aug. 1, 1926

Creator

Conditions Governing Access

The Illinois Central Railroad Company Archives are open for research; they are available a box at a time in the Special Collections Reading Room (Priority III).

Repository Details

Part of the The Newberry Library - Modern Manuscripts and Archives Repository

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