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ICG GP26 2601
Title:  ICG GP26 2601
Description:  Illinois Central Gulf GP26 2601, Chicago, Illinois, January, 1982, photo by Chuck Zeiler. Built as Gulf Mobile & Ohio GP30 502 (c/n 27906) December 1962 on EMD Order 7635, it became one of only two GP26's. Note that the locomotive retained the AAR Type B trucks from Alco FA1 trade-in's. Here is the explanation from Dan Kohlberg: ICG's two GP26's were built in March and April of 1981. Gulf Mobile & Ohio GP30's 502 and 514 were rebuilt as ICG 2601 and 2602. Among the laundry list of changes (internal and external), they received the standard Paducah spartan cab along with a Paducah 88 inch nose. ICG left the turbocharger and the 2250 hp rating. The Paducah/ICG sales literature, however, listed the GP26 model as 2600 hp. Why? Well, consider what the original 'donor' locomotive to become a GP26 was supposed to be. ICG was trying to sell this to railroads with aging GP35 fleets. Paducah had intended to use a 2500 hp GP35 as the starting point, and upping the horsepower another 100... hence the 26 designation (and the carbody changes, in my opinion). ICG sorta 'faked' it with the GP30's. Since the GP26 program never made it beyond two locomotives, it is hard to speculate how the GP30 vs. GP35 rebuilds might have been classified, had the ICG continued to rebuild the ex-GM&O (or anyone else's) 30/35 fleet. Basically, the GP26 was ICG/Paducah's answer to a railroad buying a GP39-2 or GP39X new from EMD. (Remember, the 2600hp GP39Xs showed up on the SOU in late 1980) Bad timing for the ICG by about seven years. VMV/MK/EMD implemented a similar GP30/35 rebuild program for the BN starting in 1988.
Photo Date:  1/1/1982  Upload Date: 4/10/2010 12:36:06 PM
Location:  Chicago, IL
Author:  Chuck Zeiler
Categories:  Roster
Locomotives:  ICG 2601(GP26) ICG 2537(GP35)
Views:  2535   Comments: 1
ICG GP26 2601
Title:  ICG GP26 2601
Description:  Illinois Central Gulf GP-26 2601, Chicago, Illinois, January, 1982, photo by Chuck Zeiler. Built as Gulf Mobile & Ohio GP-30 #502 (c/n #27906) December 1962 on order #7635, it became one of only two GP-26's built. The idea was to demonstrate ICG's Paducah Shops ability to remanufacture locomotives cost effectively to other railroads with aging second generation units. The intention was to use GP-35's as the starting point, up the horsepower a bit, thus achieving the suggested horsepower rating of the model designation. Instead, the demonstrators were two former GP-30's which retained their as-built 2250hp rating. The other GP26 was former GM&O GP30 514. This train is dropping down off the Saint Charles Air Line headed toward the former GM&O mainline. To the right are the leads to Dearborn Station, closed on May 2, 1971.
Photo Date:  1/1/1982  Upload Date: 4/9/2010 3:03:51 PM
Location:  Chicago, IL
Author:  Chuck Zeiler
Categories:  Roster
Locomotives:  ICG 2601(GP26)
Views:  1172   Comments: 2
ICG GP26 2601
Title:  ICG GP26 2601
Description:  Illinois Central Gulf Railroad GP26 2601 sounthbound in Chicago, Illinois on an unknown day in January 1982, Kodachrome by Chuck Zeiler. It's a cold day in Chicago and there is much to see in this photo. For instance, I assume that the station wagon parked on the embankment (below the yellow Railbox boxcar) belongs to the bridge tender, but the door on the shed on top of the bridge is open, so either he is careless, or the bridge is unattended. I think that might be Ashland Avenue passing below the tracks. The bridge carries the rails over an unnamed canal off the South Branch of the Chicago River. Looking at maps of this era, the unnamed canal appears to end at the north side of the Chicago's Union Stockyards. Thanks to a comment by Phil Gibby, we now know this unnamed canal's nickname is Bubbly Creek. Gases bubbling out of the riverbed from the decomposition of blood and entrails dumped into the river by the local stockyards in the early 20th century gave the creek its name. There are plenty of signalheads at the entrance to the bridge, I count eight, so perhaps the building on top of the bridge was also a dispatch point in earlier days. This is a serious bottleneck to the system, and correct me if I'm wrong, but the Santa Fe also had to drag their Super Chiefs across this bridge. The time is 12:12 PM, or so, if you believe the clock hands below the water tower in the upper left of the frame. I shot the photo, and I did not see the clock hands for 25 years. Was the clock functioning when I shot this photo, I don't know.
Photo Date:  1/1/1982  Upload Date: 4/9/2010 9:34:47 AM
Location:  Chicago, IL
Author:  Chuck Zeiler
Categories:  Bridge,Winter
Locomotives:  ICG 2601(GP26)
Views:  1970   Comments: 6
ICG 2601, GM&O 637, SP 6584, and ICG 8321
Title:  ICG 2601, GM&O 637, SP 6584, and ICG 8321
Description: 
Photo Date:  7/16/1982  Upload Date: 6/2/2011 1:13:29 AM
Location:  Homewood, IL
Author:  Tom Golden
Categories: 
Locomotives:  ICG 2601(GP26) GMO 637(GP35) SP 6584(GP35) ICG 8321(GP10)
Views:  910   Comments: 0
ICG 2601
Title:  ICG 2601
Description: 
Photo Date:  8/29/1983  Upload Date: 5/1/2008 8:49:12 PM
Location:  Lemont, IL
Author:  Marty Bernard
Categories: 
Locomotives:  ICG 2601(GP26)
Views:  765   Comments: 0
ICG 2601 at Chicago
Title:  ICG 2601 at Chicago
Description:  Mark Llanuza photo
Photo Date:  9/4/1983  Upload Date: 3/12/2021 10:42:06 PM
Location:  Chicago, IL
Author:  Mark Llanuza
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  ICG 2601(GP26)
Views:  131   Comments: 3
ICG 2000 West
Title:  ICG 2000 West
Description:  the interlocking tower is still there! but not more much longer....
Photo Date:  6/25/1985  Upload Date: 8/31/2006 2:10:08 PM
Location:  Louisiana, MO
Author:  Ron Herren
Categories: 
Locomotives:  ICG 2000(SD20) ICG 2601(GP26)
Views:  1408   Comments: 0
ICG 2601
Title:  ICG 2601
Description:  At some point 2601 picked up Alco trucks.
Photo Date:  9/17/1987  Upload Date: 8/29/2014 11:28:06 PM
Location:  Sullivan, IL
Author:  Dave Ritter
Categories:  Yard
Locomotives:  ICG 2601(GP26)
Views:  528   Comments: 1
ICG 2601
Title:  ICG 2601
Description: 
Photo Date:  9/17/1987  Upload Date: 8/29/2014 11:28:08 PM
Location:  Sullivan, IL
Author:  Dave Ritter
Categories:  Yard
Locomotives:  ICG 2601(GP26)
Views:  416   Comments: 0
SW 2601
Title:  SW 2601
Description: 
Photo Date:  5/27/2002  Upload Date: 1/15/2009 5:56:02 PM
Location:  Hurley, NM
Author:  Tom Fassett
Categories: 
Locomotives:  SW 2601(GP26)
Views:  582   Comments: 0
Twin GP26 sisters SW 2601 and SW 2602
Title:  Twin GP26 sisters SW 2601 and SW 2602
Description:  The only two GP26s in existence!
Photo Date:  7/16/2005  Upload Date: 1/7/2017 11:37:38 PM
Location:  Artesia, NM
Author:  PDK
Categories: 
Locomotives:  SW 2601(GP26) SW 2602(GP26)
Views:  546   Comments: 1
SW 2601
Title:  SW 2601
Description: 
Photo Date:  2/7/2006  Upload Date: 11/21/2008 3:57:27 PM
Location:  Artesia, NM
Author:  John Briggs
Categories: 
Locomotives:  SW 2601(GP26)
Views:  377   Comments: 1
SW 2601
Title:  SW 2601
Description: 
Photo Date:  2/7/2006  Upload Date: 11/21/2008 3:57:27 PM
Location:  Artesia, NM
Author:  John Briggs
Categories: 
Locomotives:  SW 2601(GP26)
Views:  321   Comments: 1
SW 2601 (GP26)
Title:  SW 2601 (GP26)
Description:  ex-GMO 502, IC 2601, NRE 2601 Rebuild as a GP26. This locomotive and its twin SW 2602 are the only GP26's in existance.
Photo Date:  7/28/2006  Upload Date: 8/3/2006 9:31:39 PM
Location:  Artesia, NM
Author:  John Dyer
Categories: 
Locomotives:  SW 2601(GP26)
Views:  662   Comments: 1
SW 2602
Title:  SW 2602
Description:  Southwestern Railroad #2602 and #2601 are switching at an industry near Hickok, KS.
Photo Date:  7/21/2009  Upload Date: 10/31/2009 7:25:52 PM
Location:  Hickok, KS
Author:  Alex Vaughn
Categories: 
Locomotives:  SW 2602(GP26) SW 2601(GP26)
Views:  416   Comments: 1
SW 2602
Title:  SW 2602
Description:  Southwestern Railroad #2602 and #2601 are switching at an industry near Hickok, KS.
Photo Date:  7/21/2009  Upload Date: 10/31/2009 7:26:07 PM
Location:  Hickok, KS
Author:  Alex Vaughn
Categories: 
Locomotives:  SW 2602(GP26) SW 2601(GP26)
Views:  406   Comments: 1
SW 2602
Title:  SW 2602
Description:  Southwestern Railroad #2602 and #2601 are switching at an industry near Hickok, KS.
Photo Date:  7/21/2009  Upload Date: 10/31/2009 7:26:20 PM
Location:  Hickok, KS
Author:  Alex Vaughn
Categories: 
Locomotives:  SW 2602(GP26) SW 2601(GP26)
Views:  422   Comments: 0
SW 2601
Title:  SW 2601
Description:  Southwestern Railroad #2601 is switching at an industry near Hickok, KS, with SW #2602.
Photo Date:  7/21/2009  Upload Date: 10/31/2009 7:26:30 PM
Location:  Hickok, KS
Author:  Alex Vaughn
Categories: 
Locomotives:  SW 2601(GP26)
Views:  262   Comments: 0
SW 2601
Title:  SW 2601
Description:  Southwestern Railroad #2601 and #2602 are switching at an industry near Hickok, KS.
Photo Date:  7/21/2009  Upload Date: 10/31/2009 7:26:54 PM
Location:  Hickok, KS
Author:  Alex Vaughn
Categories: 
Locomotives:  SW 2601(GP26) SW 2602(GP26)
Views:  429   Comments: 1
SW 2601
Title:  SW 2601
Description:  Southwestern Railroad #2601 is switching at an industry near Hickok, KS, with SW #2602.
Photo Date:  7/21/2009  Upload Date: 10/31/2009 7:27:06 PM
Location:  Hickok, KS
Author:  Alex Vaughn
Categories: 
Locomotives:  SW 2601(GP26)
Views:  403   Comments: 0
SW 2602
Title:  SW 2602
Description:  My sister, Jenny, does her foamer immitation (LOL) as Southwestern Railroad GP26's #2602 and #2601 switch an industry near Hickok, KS.
Photo Date:  7/21/2009  Upload Date: 10/31/2009 7:27:29 PM
Location:  Hickok, KS
Author:  Alex Vaughn
Categories: 
Locomotives:  SW 2602(GP26) SW 2601(GP26)
Views:  419   Comments: 3
SW 2602
Title:  SW 2602
Description:  Southwestern Railroad #2602 and #2601 are switching at an industry near Hickok, KS.
Photo Date:  7/21/2009  Upload Date: 11/1/2009 4:20:41 PM
Location:  Hickok, KS
Author:  Alex Vaughn
Categories: 
Locomotives:  SW 2602(GP26) SW 2601(GP26)
Views:  321   Comments: 0
SW 2602
Title:  SW 2602
Description:  Southwestern Railroad #2602 and #2601 are switching at an industry near Hickok, KS.
Photo Date:  7/21/2009  Upload Date: 11/1/2009 4:21:09 PM
Location:  Hickok, KS
Author:  Alex Vaughn
Categories: 
Locomotives:  SW 2602(GP26) SW 2601(GP26)
Views:  361   Comments: 0
SW 2601
Title:  SW 2601
Description:  Southwestern Railroad #2601 is switching at an industry near Hickok, KS, with SW #2602.
Photo Date:  7/21/2009  Upload Date: 11/1/2009 4:21:42 PM
Location:  Hickok, KS
Author:  Alex Vaughn
Categories: 
Locomotives:  SW 2601(GP26)
Views:  227   Comments: 0
SW 2602
Title:  SW 2602
Description:  After stopping for a crew member to de-train and talk to us for a moment, SW GP26's #2602 and #2601 put their muscle into getting their WB train moving again
Photo Date:  7/21/2009  Upload Date: 11/1/2009 4:22:52 PM
Location:  Hickok, KS
Author:  Alex Vaughn
Categories: 
Locomotives:  SW 2602(GP26) SW 2601(GP26)
Views:  377   Comments: 1
SW 2601
Title:  SW 2601
Description: 
Photo Date:  12/31/2009  Upload Date: 12/30/2009 2:01:10 AM
Location:  Walsh, CO
Author:  Drew Mitchem
Categories: 
Locomotives:  SW 2601(GP26)
Views:  281   Comments: 0
SW 2601
Title:  SW 2601
Description: 
Photo Date:  12/31/2009  Upload Date: 12/30/2009 2:01:11 AM
Location:  Walsh, CO
Author:  Drew Mitchem
Categories: 
Locomotives:  SW 2601(GP26) SW 2602(GP26)
Views:  531   Comments: 1
SW 2601
Title:  SW 2601
Description: 
Photo Date:  12/31/2009  Upload Date: 12/30/2009 2:01:12 AM
Location:  Bartlett, CO
Author:  Drew Mitchem
Categories: 
Locomotives:  SW 2601(GP26)
Views:  227   Comments: 0
SW 2601
Title:  SW 2601
Description: 
Photo Date:  12/31/2009  Upload Date: 12/30/2009 2:01:13 AM
Location:  Bartlett, CO
Author:  Drew Mitchem
Categories: 
Locomotives:  SW 2601(GP26)
Views:  244   Comments: 0
SW 2601
Title:  SW 2601
Description: 
Photo Date:  12/31/2009  Upload Date: 12/30/2009 2:01:14 AM
Location:  Saunders, KS
Author:  Drew Mitchem
Categories: 
Locomotives:  SW 2601(GP26)
Views:  303   Comments: 0
Switching at Manter
Title:  Switching at Manter
Description: 
Photo Date:  12/31/2009  Upload Date: 12/30/2009 2:01:15 AM
Location:  Manter, KS
Author:  Drew Mitchem
Categories: 
Locomotives:  SW 2601(GP26)
Views:  209   Comments: 0
SW 2601
Title:  SW 2601
Description: 
Photo Date:  12/31/2009  Upload Date: 12/30/2009 2:01:16 AM
Location:  Manter, KS
Author:  Drew Mitchem
Categories: 
Locomotives:  SW 2601(GP26)
Views:  254   Comments: 0
SW 2601
Title:  SW 2601
Description: 
Photo Date:  12/31/2009  Upload Date: 12/30/2009 2:01:17 AM
Location:  Manter, KS
Author:  Drew Mitchem
Categories: 
Locomotives:  SW 2601(GP26)
Views:  319   Comments: 0
SW 2601
Title:  SW 2601
Description: 
Photo Date:  12/31/2009  Upload Date: 12/30/2009 2:01:19 AM
Location:  Manter, KS
Author:  Drew Mitchem
Categories: 
Locomotives:  SW 2601(GP26)
Views:  218   Comments: 0
SW 2601
Title:  SW 2601
Description: 
Photo Date:  12/31/2009  Upload Date: 12/30/2009 2:01:20 AM
Location:  Vilas, CO
Author:  Drew Mitchem
Categories: 
Locomotives:  SW 2601(GP26)
Views:  206   Comments: 0
SW 2601 pulling stored ethanol cars
Title:  SW 2601 pulling stored ethanol cars
Description: 
Photo Date:  12/31/2009  Upload Date: 12/30/2009 2:01:21 AM
Location:  Vilas, CO
Author:  Drew Mitchem
Categories: 
Locomotives:  SW 2601(GP26)
Views:  236   Comments: 0
SW 2601
Title:  SW 2601
Description: 
Photo Date:  12/31/2009  Upload Date: 12/30/2009 2:01:22 AM
Location:  Vilas, CO
Author:  Drew Mitchem
Categories: 
Locomotives:  SW 2601(GP26)
Views:  274   Comments: 1
SW 2601
Title:  SW 2601
Description: 
Photo Date:  12/31/2009  Upload Date: 12/30/2009 2:01:23 AM
Location:  Vilas, CO
Author:  Drew Mitchem
Categories: 
Locomotives:  SW 2601(GP26)
Views:  249   Comments: 1
SW 2601
Title:  SW 2601
Description: 
Photo Date:  12/31/2009  Upload Date: 12/30/2009 2:01:25 AM
Location:  Vilas, CO
Author:  Drew Mitchem
Categories: 
Locomotives:  SW 2601(GP26)
Views:  196   Comments: 0
SW 2601
Title:  SW 2601
Description: 
Photo Date:  12/31/2009  Upload Date: 12/30/2009 2:01:25 AM
Location:  Vilas, CO
Author:  Drew Mitchem
Categories: 
Locomotives:  SW 2601(GP26)
Views:  246   Comments: 0
SW 2601
Title:  SW 2601
Description: 
Photo Date:  12/31/2009  Upload Date: 12/30/2009 2:01:26 AM
Location:  Vilas, CO
Author:  Drew Mitchem
Categories: 
Locomotives:  SW 2601(GP26)
Views:  246   Comments: 1
SW 2601
Title:  SW 2601
Description: 
Photo Date:  12/31/2009  Upload Date: 12/30/2009 2:01:27 AM
Location:  Vilas, CO
Author:  Drew Mitchem
Categories: 
Locomotives:  SW 2601(GP26)
Views:  188   Comments: 0
SW 2601
Title:  SW 2601
Description: 
Photo Date:  12/31/2009  Upload Date: 12/30/2009 2:01:28 AM
Location:  Vilas, CO
Author:  Drew Mitchem
Categories: 
Locomotives:  SW 2601(GP26)
Views:  269   Comments: 0
SW 2601
Title:  SW 2601
Description: 
Photo Date:  12/31/2009  Upload Date: 12/30/2009 2:01:29 AM
Location:  Vilas, CO
Author:  Drew Mitchem
Categories: 
Locomotives:  SW 2601(GP26)
Views:  188   Comments: 0
SW 2601
Title:  SW 2601
Description: 
Photo Date:  12/31/2009  Upload Date: 12/30/2009 2:01:30 AM
Location:  Vilas, CO
Author:  Drew Mitchem
Categories: 
Locomotives:  SW 2601(GP26)
Views:  192   Comments: 0
Rambling through the weeds east
Title:  Rambling through the weeds east
Description: 
Photo Date:  12/31/2009  Upload Date: 12/30/2009 2:01:31 AM
Location:  Vilas, CO
Author:  Drew Mitchem
Categories: 
Locomotives:  SW 2601(GP26)
Views:  261   Comments: 0
SW 2601
Title:  SW 2601
Description: 
Photo Date:  12/31/2009  Upload Date: 12/30/2009 2:01:32 AM
Location:  Vilas, CO
Author:  Drew Mitchem
Categories: 
Locomotives:  SW 2601(GP26)
Views:  234   Comments: 1
Stored Grain
Title:  Stored Grain
Description: 
Photo Date:  12/31/2009  Upload Date: 12/30/2009 2:01:33 AM
Location:  Vilas, CO
Author:  Drew Mitchem
Categories: 
Locomotives:  SW 2601(GP26)
Views:  187   Comments: 0
Tall Elevator.
Title:  Tall Elevator.
Description:  A CVR GP26 passin through Copeland.
Photo Date:  3/25/2010  Upload Date: 12/31/2012 6:49:29 PM
Location:  Copeland, KS
Author:  Karl Rethwisch
Categories:  Scenic,Action
Locomotives:  CVR 2601(GP26)
Views:  1300   Comments: 5
Man is it lonely out here
Title:  Man is it lonely out here
Description:  This Cimmarron Valley train is headed for the interchange with the BNSF here in the lonely stretches of far western Oklahoma. This is ex ATSF track known on the CVRR as the West CV Sub. Connects to the rest of the CVRR at Satanta Jct in Ks. This section is 100 miles in lenghth and has a speed restiction of 10mph the entire distance. What a day that could be.
Photo Date:  1/31/2012  Upload Date: 2/19/2012 11:02:44 AM
Location:  Boise City, OK
Author:  Ben Helsel
Categories: 
Locomotives:  SW 2601(GP26)
Views:  568   Comments: 5

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