RailPictures.Net Photo: RI 1217 Rock Island EMD GP7 at Chicago, Illinois by Roger Lalonde

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» Rock Island (more..)
» EMD GP7 (more..)

» La Salle Street Station
» Chicago, Illinois, USA (more..)
» June 13, 1963

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» RI 1217 (more..)
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Rock Island's GP-7's were not equipped for suburban service, and so 1217 must be functioning as a switcher or pilot rather than the motive power for the whole train. That duty is probably going to revert to Alco RS--3 485 in due course. On the track to the left a pair of RS-3's are charging out of La Salle Street Station with another suburban train. Meanwhile, in the background, two New York Central EMD SW-1's are blocking mail and express cars into passenger and express train consists. Photo by Ken Crist, from my collection.

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