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The engineer of a Gulf, Mobile & Ohio RS1 eyes the photographer as his locomotive clatters across the Rock Island diamonds at Joliet, Ill., in 1951. The Alco and a caboose are bound for GM&O’s South Joliet yard. Wallace W. Abbey photo
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GM&O’s RS1 Alco road switcher #53 was six years old when this photo was taken… It was rebuilt to RS1m and renumbered GM&O #1130 in 1972.