On a pretty fall afternoon, GM&O 1122 and two maroon mates accelerate out of West End Yard with the Prattville mill turn, giving no clue that this has actually been the ICG for a couple of years.

Local is about to cross Rock Island at Joliet Union station.

Gulf, Mobile & Ohio caboose No. 2994 shows off its bright red paint scheme next to the historic depot at Corinth, Mississippi, on May 8, 2014. Crossroads Museum is now located in the station direc... (more)

GM&O EMD E8m 100A on the Chicago to St.Louis "Abe Lincoln" in St. Louis, Missouri May 11, 1968. Photo taken from my slide collection, no photographer listed on slide.

GM&O RS-1s did everything around Montgomery other than power the Artesia road freights. Their service would last beyond the 1972 ICG merger until 1975, when they would be replaced with a rag-tag a... (more)

A Roger Puta Photograph

Re-engined RS-1 sits on the turntable at Glenn Yard.

The Limited. A Roger Puta Photograph

Vintage Alco ready for next assignment on SW side of Chicago.

Northbound GMO grain train about to cross SSW MP main at Bixby

GMO 902, an SD40 joins Paducah Geep IC 7978, ICG 9549, a GP38, and IC GP40 3030 at Markham Yard on a stormy Chicago summer afternoon in 1979.

Former Gulf, Mobile & Ohio heavyweight dining car "Azalea" awaits an uncertain fate at a closed restaurant in Buttzville, NJ since 2006.

GM&O (and later ICG) depended on RS-1s for about 30 years, from the start of deliveries in 1945, until ICG finally pulled the plug in late 1975 and replaced the Alcos with a flood of geeps. In Mo... (more)

GM&O 627 leads a south bound at Tolono, IL. 2-07-1984

Emerging from a cold winter fog is a southbound Illinois Central Gulf “slingshot” piggyback train led by Gulf, Mobile & Ohio GP35 No. 637. The train is rattling over the diamonds past BN Targe... (more)