The Alcos lasted way longer after the merger with IC than any of us local fans predicted. We figured Paducahs would roll in immediately, but the RS-1s hung around until 1975, doing everything in ... (more)

Southbound ICG pig train Chatawa

Gulf Mobile & Ohio #1054 (RS1), formerly Illinois Terminal 754. #1054 was built March 1950 as Illinois Terminal #754 and was sold to Gulf Mobile & Ohio (GM&O) in March 1970. Left Illinois Central... (more)

GM&O's SD40s didn't visit Birmingham prior to the ICG merger due to restrictions on the L&N line used to reach B'ham from home rails at Tuscaloosa. After the merger, they became frequent sights a... (more)

Four GM&O F-3 cab A units bask in the sun at Kansas City, Mo. awaiting their call back on duty on Oct. 29, 1965. The old warriors were not quite 20 years old but were showing their age.

GM&O SD40s did not visit Alabama much until the ICG merger. After that, they showed up frequently in Birmingham, and once in a while in Mobile, but never on the Montgomery line, which remained B... (more)

A moment of poor judgement in the yard at Montgomery means 713 is headed for some shop time.

Southbound freight #29 led by two Gulf, Mobile & Ohio SD40's #905 and #911 near Bloomington, Illinois April 14, 1971.

Its nose bashed in and its 567s removed for installation into RS-1s, GM&O 101A has just about run out of time.

view of power sitting at exGMO Islin shops

GM&O Train #1, THE LIMITED, speeds south near Williamsville, Illinois, in October 1969.

A trio of RS-1s - the center unit in ICG orange and white - sits at the primitive engine servicing facility at West End Yard.

The ICG has been around for 3 years, but if you can ignore that 3rd unit (an ex-IC Paducah rebuild), this scene at Tuscaloosa looks like the good old days. This train has come from the old GM&O m... (more)

With temperatures outside well below the freezing mark it has prompted me to keep warm inside and revisit some pictures from last summer. In this scene, it is a quiet late August evening in Chicag... (more)

Its 567s already removed for transplanting into a pair of RS-1s, 101A will soon be towed to West End Yard, where it will spend a few weeks before heading to the scrapper.