TCW EMD GP10 #405 (Paducah rebuild) rolls onto the SOO line main at MN&S Jct, summer of 1992. The grass is green from the humidity, bright sun and regular rain and it's already quite muggy already. Originally built as Illinois Central GP9 #9049 (SN#19769) in 12/1954.

Paducah rebuild refers to the Paducah Kentucky Illinois Central Gulf shops that rebuilt these locomotives and hundreds of others, updating systems internally and externally to bring them up to second generation standards at the time, the 70's and early 1980's. These GP7 and GP9's had a characteristic air filter hood just behind the cabs to hold Dynacell paper air filters and these are a big giveaway as to their history.

Built 1954
IC #9049
IC #8251
Rebuilt to a GP10 in1973
TCWR 405
FMRC 8251
GNBC 8251

http://www.rrpicturearchives.net/sh.....spx?id=1370800 shows the engine as of last year in what appears to be either a dead line or external storage.