Edgar Dayries found himself trackside on a day in March of 1980. He captured this image of a northbound Illinois Central Gulf freight train as it reached Owl Bayou, a small waterway a couple miles north of the North Pass in Manchac, Louisiana (North Pass is one of two waterways that connect Lake Maurepas to Lake Pontchartrain).

Heading up the train is an interesting consist. All products of EMD, the first locomotive is an SD20. The second locomotive is a former Southern Railway SD24. The partial view of the GM&O locomotive looks like an SD40.