Gulf Mobile and Ohio passenger trains

Observation car of St. Louis–Chicago Abraham Lincoln approaching Joliet, Ill., 1940s or early ’50s.
Edward Janoskey

Former Alton Railroad 4-6-2 No. 5296 with “GM&O” and “The Alton Route” lettering on tender, late 1940s.
R. J. Foster

E7s with St. Louis–Chicago Alton Limited at Springfield, Ill., May 1952.
Edward Theisinger

Hostess in observation car of Chicago–St. Louis Ann Rutledge, late 1940s.
Charles Trefts

Chicago–St. Louis Midnight Special before its final departure from Chicago Union Station, April 30, 1971.
Harold Edmonson

E7s 102 and 102-A with St. Louis–Chicago Abraham Lincoln at Joliet Union Station, fall 1951.
Wallace W. Abbey

New Orleans–Jackson, Miss., Rebel motor train departing New Orleans, 1945.
B. M. Sheridan

Kansas City–Bloomington, Ill., motor train No. 10 at Independence, Mo., August 1959.
John S. Ingles

E7s 101-A and 101 with St. Louis–Chicago Alton Limited departing St. Louis, August 1950.
Don Sims

F3 883-A with Chicago–Joliet commuter train (“The Plug”) departing Chicago, early 1970s.
John R. Taibi

Alco DL109 with St. Louis–Mobile Gulf Coast Rebel consist, circa 1940.
B. M. Sheridan

St. Louis–Chicago Abraham Lincoln departing St. Louis.
Charles M. Rice

Alco PA1 290 with Chicago–St. Louis local trains at Bloomington, Ill., circa 1950.
Richard K. Smith

New Orleans–St. Louis Rebel motor train at North Cairo, Ill., July 1946.
Henry J. McCord

F3 with Joliet–Chicago commuter train (“The Plug”) at Joliet.
W. A. Peters

Baldwin diesels with St. Louis–Mobile Gulf Coast Rebel departing Meridian, Miss., May 1951.
J. Parker Lamb

Motor car 2509 and trailer running as Bloomington, Ill.–Kansas City train 9 at Louisiana, Mo., June 9, 1956.
John C. Illman

St. Louis–Chicago Abraham Lincoln at Springfield, Mo., mid-1950s.
Herbert George Studio

Chicago–St. Louis Ann Rutledge arriving St. Louis, August 1950.
Don Sims