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Owner: Gulf Mobile & Ohio
Model:EMD F3ABuilt As:GMO 880B (F3A)
Serial Number:3601Order No:E695
Frame Number:E695-A16Built:12/1946
Notes:blt 12/1946, scrapped 1990?
Other locos with this serial:  GMO 880b(F3A) ICG 880B(F3A)
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Westbound Passenger Train
Title:  Westbound Passenger Train
Description: 
Photo Date:  1/1/1950  Upload Date: 7/17/2006 6:41:29 PM
Location:  Vandalia, MO
Author:  Ron Herren
Categories: 
Locomotives:  GMO 880b(F3A)
Views:  873   Comments: 0
GMO 880b F3A BLOOMINGTON IL 11-1968
Title:  GMO 880b F3A BLOOMINGTON IL 11-1968
Description:  GMO 880b F3A BLOOMINGTON NOV '68 EARLY EXAMPLE SOLID CHERRY RED SIMPLIFIED SCHEME
Photo Date:  11/17/1968  Upload Date: 4/14/2011 2:16:27 PM
Location:  Bloomington, IL
Author:  Robert Simon
Categories:  Roster
Locomotives:  GMO 880b(F3A)
Views:  1147   Comments: 1
GMO F-3 waiting for morning comuter run to Chicago
Title:  GMO F-3 waiting for morning comuter run to Chicago
Description: 
Photo Date:  8/1/1969  Upload Date: 12/24/2004 6:12:40 PM
Location:  Joliet, IL
Author:  Bob Wilcox
Categories: 
Locomotives:  GMO 880b(F3A)
Views:  1075   Comments: 0
GM&O 880B
Title:  GM&O 880B
Description: 
Photo Date:  10/14/1972  Upload Date: 12/20/2014 11:41:35 AM
Location:  Joliet, IL
Author:  Robert Farkas
Categories:  Roster
Locomotives:  GMO 880b(F3A)
Views:  368   Comments: 1
GM&O 880B
Title:  GM&O 880B
Description: 
Photo Date:  8/17/1973  Upload Date: 4/5/2015 4:13:03 PM
Location:  Chicago, IL
Author:  Robert Farkas
Categories:  Roster
Locomotives:  GMO 880b(F3A)
Views:  363   Comments: 1
GM&O 880B
Title:  GM&O 880B
Description:  (Location approximate)
Photo Date:  8/17/1973  Upload Date: 5/15/2011 5:09:35 PM
Location:  Chicago, IL
Author:  Robert Farkas
Categories:  Roster
Locomotives:  GMO 880b(F3A)
Views:  618   Comments: 1
GMO 880B, EMD F3A, and GMO 1123 Alco RS1
Title:  GMO 880B, EMD F3A, and GMO 1123 Alco RS1
Description:  GMO 880B, EMD F3A, and GMO 1123 Alco RS1 at Chicago Illinois
Photo Date:  9/6/1973  Upload Date: 5/6/2022 8:14:58 AM
Location:  Chicago, IL
Author:  unknown, from the collection of Paul Rome
Categories:  Roster,Yard,Passenger,Track
Locomotives:  GMO 880b(F3A) GMO 1123(RS1)
Views:  219   Comments: 1
GM&O F3A #880B
Title:  GM&O F3A #880B
Description:  Digital image from Kim E. Piersol original 35mm Kodachrome transparency. ICG Markham Yard.
Photo Date:  4/26/1975  Upload Date: 4/4/2006 7:54:35 PM
Location:  Homewood, IL
Author:  Kim Piersol
Categories: 
Locomotives:  GMO 880b(F3A)
Views:  759   Comments: 0
GMO 880b
Title:  GMO 880b
Description: 
Photo Date:  8/1/1975  Upload Date: 1/9/2012 8:09:53 AM
Location:  Chicago, IL
Author:  Tim Vermande
Categories: 
Locomotives:  GMO 880b(F3A)
Views:  519   Comments: 0
GMO 880b
Title:  GMO 880b
Description: 
Photo Date:  8/11/1976  Upload Date: 1/9/2012 8:10:13 AM
Location:  Chicago, IL
Author:  Tim Vermande
Categories: 
Locomotives:  GMO 880b(F3A)
Views:  556   Comments: 0
GMO 880B
Title:  GMO 880B
Description:  GMO 880B leads an afternoon commuter train out of Chicago.
Photo Date:  8/25/1976  Upload Date: 10/8/2011 6:42:38 AM
Location:  Chicago, IL
Author:  Ron Hawkins
Categories:  Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  GMO 880b(F3A)
Views:  574   Comments: 0
GMO 880B
Title:  GMO 880B
Description:  Top view of GMO 880B.
Photo Date:  8/25/1976  Upload Date: 10/8/2011 6:43:22 AM
Location:  Chicago, IL
Author:  Ron Hawkins
Categories:  Roster
Locomotives:  GMO 880b(F3A)
Views:  753   Comments: 0
GM&O F3 880B
Title:  GM&O F3 880B
Description:  Gulf Mobile & Ohio Railroad F3 880B departing Chicago, Illinois on an unknown day in June 1978, Ektachrome by Chuck Zeiler. Built in December 1946 (c/n 3601) on EMD Order E695, it was retired in October 1978, the prime mover was removed, and it was put on display in a park in Farber, Missouri. However, the city felt it was a liability and safety hazard, and it was scrapped sometime around 1990. It is seen here heading a train known as "The Plug", a GM&O commuter train between Chicago and Joliet (anyone know the origin on the train name?). Also seen is BN E9Am 9910 which fared a bit better in the survival game, for a while, working for the Nashville and Eastern after retiring from the BN in 1992. It is seen here about to divert to the southwestern suburbs of Chicago.
Photo Date:  6/1/1978  Upload Date: 3/30/2009 1:02:02 PM
Location:  Chicago, IL
Author:  Chuck Zeiler
Categories:  Roster,Yard,Passenger
Locomotives:  GMO 880b(F3A) BN 9910(E9AM)
Views:  1621   Comments: 1
GM&O F3 880B
Title:  GM&O F3 880B
Description:  Gulf Mobile & Ohio Railroad F3 880B departing Chicago, Illinois on an unknown day in July 1978, Ektachrome by Chuck Zeiler. Built in December 1946 ( c/n 3601 ) on EMD Order E695, it was retired in October 1978, the prime mover was removed, and it was put on display in a park in Farber, Missouri. However, the city felt it was a liability and safety hazard, and it was scrapped sometime around 1990. It is seen here heading a train known as THE PLUG, a GM&O commuter train between Chicago and Joliet.
Photo Date:  7/1/1978  Upload Date: 6/14/2017 1:03:42 PM
Location:  Chicago, IL
Author:  Chuck Zeiler
Categories:  Passenger
Locomotives:  GMO 880b(F3A)
Views:  463   Comments: 0
GM&O F3 880B
Title:  GM&O F3 880B
Description:  GM&O F3 880B southbound at Alton Junction, Chicago, Illinois, August 1978 (exact day unknown) photo by Chuck Zeiler. This was known as Fort Wayne Junction to the GM&O people (it is listed as such in the GM&O Employees Timetable, and the published direction is Southward) and this is Train #17, unofficially, The Plug, the GM&O's commuter train between Chicago and Joliet. In the consist is a borrowed Amtrak coach, substituting for a GM&O coach in for maintenance. For the record, The Milwaukee Road also referred to this location as Alton Junction in their Employees Timetable (to define the limits of Chicago Union Station tracks).
Photo Date:  8/1/1978  Upload Date: 7/22/2010 11:30:59 AM
Location:  Chicago, IL
Author:  Chuck Zeiler
Categories:  Roster,Passenger
Locomotives:  GMO 880b(F3A)
Views:  1438   Comments: 0
GMO 880b
Title:  GMO 880b
Description: 
Photo Date:  8/7/1978  Upload Date: 11/28/2015 12:01:06 AM
Location:  Chicago, IL
Author:  andrew koenigsberg
Categories: 
Locomotives:  GMO 880b(F3A)
Views:  672   Comments: 0
Gulf, Mobile & Ohio EMD F-3A 880B
Title:  Gulf, Mobile & Ohio EMD F-3A 880B
Description: 
Photo Date:  8/7/1978  Upload Date: 6/17/2008 10:47:20 AM
Location:  Chicago, IL
Author:  andrew koenigsberg
Categories: 
Locomotives:  GMO 880b(F3A)
Views:  551   Comments: 0
Gulf, Mobile and Ohio train 18
Title:  Gulf, Mobile and Ohio train 18
Description:  GM&O train 18, "The Plug", arrives at Joliet Union Station behind F3A 880B. Joliet, Illinois, USA, 8 August 1978.
Photo Date:  8/8/1978  Upload Date: 9/19/2016 6:55:47 PM
Location:  Joliet, IL
Author:  Bill Wilcox
Categories:  Station,Passenger
Locomotives:  GMO 880b(F3A)
Views:  559   Comments: 1
Oldest F unit
Title:  Oldest F unit
Description:  At the time I took this shot, there were a group of F 3s that rotated on and off the "Plug" as the ex GM&O train to Joliet was known. At the time, it was the only train on this line, a poor stepchild to ICGs electrified service to Matteson. The F 3s had the distinction of being the oldest road power then in use on a Class 1 road, having been built in 1946. There are now several trains on this route, but they dont have any of the charm of an F 3 and ex GM&O coaches.
Photo Date:  8/15/1978  Upload Date: 11/17/2016 5:11:01 AM
Location:  Chicago Union Statio, IL
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  GMO 880b(F3A)
Views:  565   Comments: 3
GMO 880b
Title:  GMO 880b
Description:  GMO 880B
Photo Date:  1/5/1980  Upload Date: 4/25/2022 5:24:37 PM
Location:  Springfield, IL
Author:  J Fischer collection
Categories:  Roster,Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  GMO 880b(F3A)
Views:  143   Comments: 0
GM&O F3A 880B
Title:  GM&O F3A 880B
Description: 
Photo Date:  8/31/1980  Upload Date: 11/19/2008 12:45:24 PM
Location:  Paducah, KY
Author:  Alan Gaines
Categories: 
Locomotives:  GMO 880b(F3A)
Views:  713   Comments: 0
Hulk
Title:  Hulk
Description:  sad times for the 880B....soon it will become razor blades
Photo Date:  6/1/1983  Upload Date: 9/8/2006 10:32:11 PM
Location:  Farber, MO
Author:  Mark Herren
Categories: 
Locomotives:  GMO 880b(F3A)
Views:  1372   Comments: 2
Nose Shot of the #880B
Title:  Nose Shot of the #880B
Description: 
Photo Date:  6/11/1985  Upload Date: 5/14/2008 2:19:57 PM
Location:  Farber, MO
Author:  Mark Herren
Categories: 
Locomotives:  GMO 880b(F3A)
Views:  681   Comments: 0


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