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By:TS _Illinois
Dates:3/31/1979 - 11/28/1986
Album Info:Various shots (some action, some roster) of GM&O units working out of the yard in Venice, IL. All of these are scans from 35mm Kodachrome slides.
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GM&O 705
Title:  GM&O 705
Description:  Uncharacteristic for ICG, this GP38 was running long-hood first on the local through Belleville. This location may not look familiar, but this is the same spot where at least one intrepid soul got some high perspective shots of IC/CN trains in more recent years. Those were from atop a nearby hospital parking garage that had not been built yet in 1979.
Photo Date:  3/31/1979  Upload Date: 11/20/2011 4:14:48 PM
Location:  Belleville, IL
Author:  TS _Illinois
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  GMO 705(GP38)
Views:  600   Comments: 0
GM&O 511
Title:  GM&O 511
Description:  A grimey black and white locomotive, but I guess you could call it colorful in other ways. Thats some mighty crafty application of electricians tape.
Photo Date:  5/19/1979  Upload Date: 11/20/2011 4:28:27 PM
Location:  Belleville, IL
Author:  TS _Illinois
Categories:  Roster
Locomotives:  GMO 511(GP30)
Views:  564   Comments: 0
GM&O 740
Title:  GM&O 740
Description:  An all GM&O lash-up at the River King #1 mine in Freeburg soaks up a little late afternoon Autumn sunshine.
Photo Date:  11/4/1979  Upload Date: 11/20/2011 4:52:47 PM
Location:  Freeburg, IL
Author:  TS _Illinois
Categories:  Roster
Locomotives:  GMO 740(GP38-2) GMO 638(GP35) GMO 633(GP35)
Views:  913   Comments: 1
GMO 633
Title:  GMO 633
Description:  An all GM&O lash-up on the ready track at the River King coal mine #1.
Photo Date:  12/9/1979  Upload Date: 6/10/2011 12:46:34 PM
Location:  Freeburg, IL
Author:  TS _Illinois
Categories:  Roster
Locomotives:  GMO 633(GP35) GMO 731(GP38AC)
Views:  676   Comments: 0
GMO 601
Title:  GMO 601
Description:  A gloomy day and a dark locomotive make for exposure problems, but it was always worth the trip to find some GM&O units in the yard.
Photo Date:  12/30/1979  Upload Date: 6/10/2011 12:49:25 PM
Location:  Venice, IL
Author:  TS _Illinois
Categories:  Roster
Locomotives:  GMO 601(GP35)
Views:  600   Comments: 0
GMO 630
Title:  GMO 630
Description:  ICG used to keep units (typically 3) on the ready track at the River King coal mine #1 in Freeburg, IL to put together trains and haul them westbound to the yard in Venice. For a while, these units tended to include lots of GM&O power. Here GP35 630 idles on a late winter afternoon.
Photo Date:  3/5/1980  Upload Date: 6/10/2011 12:41:05 PM
Location:  Freeburg, IL
Author:  TS _Illinois
Categories:  Roster
Locomotives:  GMO 630(GP35) ICG 9632(GP38-2)
Views:  2029   Comments: 3
GMO 510
Title:  GMO 510
Description:  Another gloomy day, but couldnt pass up a GP30 on the River King mine ready track in Freeburg, IL.
Photo Date:  9/23/1980  Upload Date: 6/10/2011 12:55:13 PM
Location:  Freeburg, IL
Author:  TS _Illinois
Categories:  Roster
Locomotives:  GMO 510(GP30) ICG 2529(GP35)
Views:  850   Comments: 0
GM&O 718
Title:  GM&O 718
Description:  A not uncommon sight back in those days: GM&O colors in the midst of an ICG lash-up. This one is just rolling off the Kaskaskia River bridge in New Athens.
Photo Date:  4/17/1981  Upload Date: 11/20/2011 4:20:56 PM
Location:  New Athens, IL
Author:  TS _Illinois
Categories:  Roster
Locomotives:  GMO 718(GP38) ICG 9509(GP38AC)
Views:  607   Comments: 0
GM&O 914
Title:  GM&O 914
Description:  Illinois Central Gulf was great fun in the early 1980s. You really never knew what you might get on any given train - often Paducah re-builds, sometimes IC "green diamond" Geeps, or, as in this case, GM&O units still wearing original colors and numbers. Here an SD40 has the point on an eastbound crossing the (then) brand-new Kaskaskia River bridge at New Athens, IL.
Photo Date:  9/16/1981  Upload Date: 4/5/2011 3:37:30 PM
Location:  New Athens, IL
Author:  TS _Illinois
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  GMO 914(SD40) GMO 724(GP38AC)
Views:  809   Comments: 3
GMO 914_2
Title:  GMO 914_2
Description:  An SD40 leading an eastbound freight as a late Summer thundershower approaches.
Photo Date:  9/16/1981  Upload Date: 6/10/2011 12:52:53 PM
Location:  Freeburg, IL
Author:  TS _Illinois
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  GMO 914(SD40) GMO 724(GP38AC)
Views:  670   Comments: 0
GMO 703
Title:  GMO 703
Description:  Another of the colorful lash-ups ICG liked to run in the early 80s, GP38 703 leads a westbound freight through Belleville, IL.
Photo Date:  11/6/1981  Upload Date: 6/10/2011 12:44:19 PM
Location:  Belleville, IL
Author:  TS _Illinois
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  GMO 703(GP38) IC 9232(GP9)
Views:  848   Comments: 0
GM&O 742
Title:  GM&O 742
Description:  On the ready track at the River King mine, GP38-2 742 still wears GM&O colors while the unit its coupled to - ICG 9549 - is ex-GM&O 730.
Photo Date:  6/26/1983  Upload Date: 11/20/2011 4:35:26 PM
Location:  Freeburg, IL
Author:  TS _Illinois
Categories:  Roster
Locomotives:  GMO 742(GP38-2)
Views:  761   Comments: 0
GM&O 908
Title:  GM&O 908
Description:  Probably the filthiest, grimiest locomotive I'd ever seen, this was certainly the last GM&O unit I ever recorded. Found in the UP yard at Chouteau Ave in St. Louis, it was in a string of units headed for new owners...or scrappers.
Photo Date:  11/28/1986  Upload Date: 11/20/2011 4:46:04 PM
Location:  Saint Louis, MO
Author:  TS _Illinois
Categories:  Roster
Locomotives:  GMO 908(SD40)
Views:  746   Comments: 1


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