view of power sitting at exGMO Islin shops

The dead line at Paducah,KY. had this GM&O E8A which out of all the E-units was my favorite.

Out of service since a wreck in 1971 at Ocoya,IL. and scrapped in Jackson,MS..

Built in 1945 this E7 had seen the world figuratively speaking of course. When I worked on them after Amtrak started running trains from Milwaukee to St.Louis on the Milwaukee Road and GM&O thro... (more)

Built in 1945&46 respectively these two E7's had seen the world figuratively speaking of course. When I worked on them after Amtrak started running trains from Milwaukee to St.Louis on the Milwauk... (more)

Paducah dead line.

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 the start up of Amtrak and the loss of jobs I ended up back Hostling in Milwaukee on the Milwaukee Road. All was not lost as I got to run these old GM&O E7's as the Abraham Lincoln(Prarie Sta... (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.

Still in GM&O colors, 1051 rests in the Meridian yard, coupled to an Alco switcher. In the background is ICG GP30 522, in already faded ICG paint, but still with its GM&O number.

With a pair of each, F3's and F7's -- 812B, B80, B66, 834A -- GM&O's freight leaves Kansas City eastbound to cross Missouri to Roodhouse, Illinois where some of the tonnage may go to St. Louis an... (more)

Ex-GM&O 706 sits on the turntable at West End Yard with RS-1 1122 on one end, and IC's first GP38 on the other.