| ICG GP38-2 9601 at Fort Wayne Junction (aka Alton Junction), near 22nd Street, Chicago, Illinois, September 1979, photo by Chuck Zeiler. Built in November 1974 (c/n 74646-2), it was named "P.G.T. Beauregard". Pierre Gustave Toutant Beauregard (May 28, 1818 - February 20, 1893) was a Louisiana-born American military officer, politician, inventor, writer, civil servant, and the first prominent general of the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War. Today he is commonly referred to as P.G.T. Beauregard. During the war years, he rarely used his first name and signed correspondence as G.T. Beauregard. He was the president of the New Orleans Jackson & Mississippi Railroad from 1865 to 1870. While president of the New Orleans and Carrollton Street Railway (1866-1876), he invented a system of cable-powered street railway cars. |