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Viewing Album:  Grenada District
 
By:Joe Marascalco
Dates:1/1/1910 - 4/8/2019
Album Info:Covers the former Illinois Central trackage from Memphis, TN to Canton, MS. This line was once part of the IC's main line between Chicago and New Orleans, and hosted 8 passenger trains per day as late as the 1960's and hosted 2 to 4 piggyback trains per day until the 1990's. Amtrak's City of New Orleans used this line until 1995. Casey Jones had his famous wreck on this line on April 30, 1900. In the 1990's, then CEO Hunter Harrison decided to reroute all through traffic to the parallel Yazoo District due to this line's flatter profile. The Grenada District suffered from deferred maintenance throughout the Harrison years and was only used for local traffic/detour route until he sold this line in 2009 to V&S Railway, which is an affiliate company of A&K Railroad Materials. This new outfit formed a new company called the Grenada Railway to operate this line. During the Grenada Railway years, trains stopped running between Grenada and Canton and this segment was put up for abandonment in 2011. This abandonment was stopped due to a legal battle at the Surface Transportation Board led by the State of Mississippi and other concerned citizens, communities, and shippers. In 2013, the Grenada Railway attempted once again to abandon the Grenada to Canton segment but this abandonment was never allowed due to selling this line to the North Mississippi Regional Rail Authority in 2015. The rail authority then reached a lease purchase agreement with Iowa Pacific Holdings. Iowa Pacific operated this line until 2018, when International Rail Partners took over Iowa Pacific's lease purchase agreement with the rail authority. The entire line was reopened for revenue freight service in 2019.
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looking south
Title:  looking south
Description:  looking south at the main road crossing at Goodman (678.4), in the distance is the north siding switch, which appears to be lined for the siding judging from the target
Photo Date:  11/15/2014  Upload Date: 11/18/2014 2:36:14 PM
Location:  Goodman, MS
Author:  Joe Marascalco
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Views:  245   Comments: 0
looking north
Title:  looking north
Description:  looking north at the private crossing at Vaughan, the depot where Casey Jones died at was located along the dirt road to the left, its been 3 years since a train has been through here
Photo Date:  11/15/2014  Upload Date: 11/17/2014 2:33:10 PM
Location:  Vaughan, MS
Author:  Joe Marascalco
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Views:  281   Comments: 0
looking south
Title:  looking south
Description:  looking south at Vaughan, the south house track switch is visible here, but the track ends in the weeds just past the switch, it has been 3 years since a train has been through here
Photo Date:  11/15/2014  Upload Date: 11/17/2014 2:38:21 PM
Location:  Vaughan, MS
Author:  Joe Marascalco
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Views:  264   Comments: 0
new customer
Title:  new customer
Description:  New customer Calbee North America purchased the former BMW Plant in Senatobia last year and is currently extending the industrial park spur to get rail access to their plant. Their building is located on the far left side of this pic. In the distance on the right is another rail customer, Carlisle Sentec.
Photo Date:  4/3/2015  Upload Date: 6/21/2015 3:09:25 AM
Location:  Senatobia, MS
Author:  Joe Marascalco
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Views:  227   Comments: 0
Batesville Depot
Title:  Batesville Depot
Description:  Here is the Batesville Depot, if you can call it that, as seen from the rear of the Pontchartrain Club.
Photo Date:  9/1/2015  Upload Date: 9/1/2015 9:35:25 PM
Location:  Batesville, MS
Author:  Joe Marascalco
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Views:  186   Comments: 0
Passenger Equipment Move
Title:  Passenger Equipment Move
Description:  A special train consisiting of 3 of Iowa Pacific's passenger cars has just arrived at Grenada for Iowa Pacific's ground breaking ceremony the next day.
Photo Date:  9/1/2015  Upload Date: 9/1/2015 9:41:31 PM
Location:  Grenada, MS
Author:  Robert Riley
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Locomotives:  GRYR 2603(GP38-2)
Views:  311   Comments: 2
Pontchartrain Club
Title:  Pontchartrain Club
Description:  The Pontchartrain Club is spotted at the end of First St. on the north side of the depot. This is a very beautiful car inside and out, and it rode like a Cadillac between Memphis and Grenada! It used to come through Grenada frequently in the 1960's on the Panama Limited.
Photo Date:  9/1/2015  Upload Date: 9/3/2015 9:54:48 PM
Location:  Grenada, MS
Author:  Robert Riley
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Views:  296   Comments: 0
Pontchartrain Club
Title:  Pontchartrain Club
Description:  This car used to come through Grenada frequently in the 1960's on the rear of the Panama Limited.
Photo Date:  9/1/2015  Upload Date: 9/1/2015 9:48:03 PM
Location:  Grenada, MS
Author:  Joe Marascalco
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Views:  384   Comments: 0
Passenger Equipment Move
Title:  Passenger Equipment Move
Description:  A special train consisiting of 3 of Iowa Pacific's passenger cars stops at State Line Rd. to pick us up. The cars are enroute to Grenada for Iowa Pacific's ground breaking ceremony the next day.
Photo Date:  9/1/2015  Upload Date: 9/1/2015 9:22:44 PM
Location:  Southaven, MS
Author:  Joe Marascalco
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Locomotives:  GRYR 2603(GP38-2)
Views:  339   Comments: 6
The Polar Express
Title:  The Polar Express
Description:  The Polar Express sits in the Batesville Industrial Park spur on Thanksgiving Day.
Photo Date:  11/26/2015  Upload Date: 11/27/2015 1:05:22 AM
Location:  Batesville, MS
Author:  Joe Marascalco
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Locomotives:  SLRG 515(E8A)
Views:  308   Comments: 5
Improved Passenger Platform
Title:  Improved Passenger Platform
Description:  The Batesville passenger platform has been repaved on the north end for the use by the Polar Express passengers. This is the first time a platform has been improved on the Grenada District in many decades.
Photo Date:  11/26/2015  Upload Date: 11/27/2015 1:08:48 AM
Location:  Batesville, MS
Author:  Joe Marascalco
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Views:  147   Comments: 0
waiting at State Line Rd.
Title:  waiting at State Line Rd.
Description:  I got a chance to pilot an Iowa Pacific passenger special that was en route to Memphis Central Station to be on display for train day the following day. I got on the train at Hernando and we are stopped in the picture here at State Line Rd. waiting for the CN Yardmaster to let us on to CN property. This was the first all IC painted passenger train to run into Central Staion in over 40 years. Two days later when the train went back to Grenada, people were allowed to ride the train back and it sold out at 112 passengers.
Photo Date:  6/3/2016  Upload Date: 7/26/2016 5:32:14 PM
Location:  Horn Lake, MS
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Locomotives:  SLRG 518(E8A)
Views:  814   Comments: 0
Passenger Extra
Title:  Passenger Extra
Description:  Two E units and 5 passengers cars head north by the old IC depot in light rain headed to Memphis Central Station for the annual Train Day where it was put on display for the public. The train went north without passengers but returned south two days later to Grenada with 112 passengers. I was called to be the pilot for this train that day to get the train to Central Station as the crew was not qualified on some of CN's track in Memphis.
Photo Date:  6/3/2016  Upload Date: 6/9/2016 4:31:12 PM
Location:  Sardis, MS
Author:  Joe Marascalco
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Locomotives:  SLRG 518(E8A)
Views:  347   Comments: 4
E units
Title:  E units
Description:  Two IC painted E units sit in the siding by the Grenada Railway's Batesville office getting repairs so they will be ready for this year's "Train to Christmas Town."
Photo Date:  10/19/2017  Upload Date: 10/19/2017 3:04:36 PM
Location:  Batesville, MS
Author:  Joe Marascalco
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Locomotives:  SLRG 515(E8A)
Views:  794   Comments: 2

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