photo by: Dick Campbell - collection of Mark Laundry
Blue Island, IL. - July 9, 1987
S8
c/n 75429, b/d 10/1951
- built for LS&BC as #8
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, www.hoosierhobbies.net
