In the WGN yard at Trego is this GE 45 tonner lettered for the "Pearl Lake RR". There is no such railroad; the unit was lettered for display at the Pearl Lake campground in the city of South Beloit, IL. She is ex-Elmhurst Chicago Stone, exx-Illinois Sand & Gravel, exxx-Louisiana & Pine Bluff 35, exxxx-Fordyce & Princeton 9, nee-Fordyce Lumber 9, a Phase II-C1 45 tonner built in July, 1948. |