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GM&O’s “Plug”

By Angela Cotey | September 17, 2017

| Last updated on January 5, 2021


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Gulf, Mobile & Ohio F3 883-A leads the road’s weekday commuter train to Joliet away from Chicago Union Station not long before GM&O merged with Illinois Central to form Illinois Central Gulf. The little train was widely known as “The Plug.”
John R. Taibi photo

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