A former Gulf, Mobile & Ohio Railroad locomotive acquired through merger in 1972, leads a 1970's era Illinois Central Gulf train through Stocton Illinois.

A former Gulf, Mobile & Ohio Railroad locomotive acquired through merger in 1972, leads a 1970's era Illinois Central Gulf train through Stocton Illinois., a photo by Eddie from Chicago on Flickr.

I took this photograph a few weeks ago, at the Oak Park Society of Model Engineers,H.O Scale Model Railroad Club in Oak Park Illinois.

In a scene right out of 1972 or 1973, an early merger era freight train from the former Illinois Central Gulf Railroad, passes through the fivticious town of Stocton Illinois, behind a former Gulf, Mobile & Ohio locomotive acquired through merger in August of 1972.