Illinois Central Railroad Engine 1536 Loads up at Carbondale Coal Chute

Illinois Central Railroad Engine 1536 Loads up at Carbondale Coal Chute

Railroads; Steam locomotives; Illinois Central Railroad Company

Engine 1536, a 2-8-2 Mikado locomotive, loading up at the Carbondale coal chute, early 1959. Loading of coal and water and incidental maintenance takes a steam locomotive about 1 hour. A diesel engine can be fueled from a pump such as the one in the foreground in 10 minutes or so.

Ben Gelman

Special Collections Research Center, Morris Library, Southern Illinois University Carbondale

1959

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Black and White Photograph

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