photo by: John C. Benson
Chicago, IL - Nov. 17 1990
S8
c/n 75429, b/d 10/1951
- built for LS&BC as #8
- to Chrome Crankshaft in 1981
- to Scrap Corporation of America, Chicago
photo by: John C. Benson
Blue Island, IL - May 4, 1986
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photo by: John C. Benson Chicago, IL - Nov. 17 1990 |
8 S8 c/n 75429, b/d 10/1951 - built for LS&BC as #8 - to Chrome Crankshaft in 1981 - to Scrap Corporation of America, Chicago |
photo by: John C. Benson Blue Island, IL - May 4, 1986 |
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"LS&BC 8 sat at Blue Island, IL on the CRL after the LS&BC shut down the Central IL line,
and then I saw it being moved by Chicago Rail Link SW1500's to the SCA Yard
at Lake Calumet. From there I thought it might become scrap but apparently they
breathed new life into the old girl, and used it until they got the SW8 (MM2)
from Amtrak and the 8 disappeared...probably cut up in the very yard she had switched." - John Eagan |