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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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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:  393   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:  355   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:  314   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:  149   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:  824   Comments: 0
E units
Title:  E units
Description:  Two IC painted E units sit in tne 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:  804   Comments: 2

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