{"id":4376,"date":"2025-08-10T12:24:42","date_gmt":"2025-08-10T17:24:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/?p=4376"},"modified":"2025-08-10T12:24:42","modified_gmt":"2025-08-10T17:24:42","slug":"ic-1536-preparing-to-depart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/2025\/08\/10\/ic-1536-preparing-to-depart\/","title":{"rendered":"IC #1536 Preparing to Depart"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p> A couple weeks ago we got a glimpse of the Illinois Central Mikado #1536 as she was being watered at a penstock in her usual servicing at the end of a run.  Photographer Ben Gelman stayed with the locomotive and captured another view as she was preparing to leave with another train in tow.  Stopped just short of a grade crossing, I speculate that the fireman is building a good head of steam in preparation of starting their train, that based on the heavy smoke plume being belched from the beast.  I&#8217;m also speculating that this view is at the edge of the yard in Carbondale, Illinois. Again, the exact date is unknown, but I believe this to be in early 1959 toward the end of steam on the I.C.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Mr. Gelman took a series of photos featuring the last days of steam on the Illinois Central in southern Illinois. This image is one of many contained in the <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/scrcexhibits.omeka.net\/exhibits\/show\/last-steam-engines\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Special Collections Research Center of the Southern Illinois University Carbondale<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/ICRR-1536-at-Crossing.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"750\" height=\"748\" src=\"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/ICRR-1536-at-Crossing.jpg\" alt=\"Illinois Central Railroad Engine 1536 at Railroad Crossing\" class=\"wp-image-4375\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/ICRR-1536-at-Crossing.jpg 750w, https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/ICRR-1536-at-Crossing-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/ICRR-1536-at-Crossing-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/ICRR-1536-at-Crossing-301x300.jpg 301w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 750px) 100vw, 750px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A couple weeks ago we got a glimpse of the Illinois Central Mikado #1536 as she was being watered at a penstock in her usual servicing at the end of a run. Photographer Ben Gelman stayed with the locomotive and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/2025\/08\/10\/ic-1536-preparing-to-depart\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26,13,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4376","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-photos-i-like","category-proto-research","category-railfanning"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4376","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4376"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4376\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4377,"href":"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4376\/revisions\/4377"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4376"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4376"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4376"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}