This is Rock Island's version of EMD's BL2. BL stood for "branch line" because the unit was lighter than a GP7. Here 17 year old number 429 is filling out its life in commuter service with a northbound morning rush hour train at Englewood Union Station on the south side of Chicago. |
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4/21/1965 |
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