Jan 11, 2014 · One of the major highlights at the Illinois Railway Museum's 60th Anniversary Celebration was their Chicago South Shore & South Bend "Little Joe" #803. The locomotive made it's operational debut...

The Little Joes lasted until the end of electric operation on the Milwaukee on June 15, 1974. By that time, they were the Milwaukee's only electric road locomotives, all the GE Freight Motors (except two which were used together in MU as the Harlowton switcher) having succumbed to …

Units 801-803 operated for three decades, until electric freight operations ended around 1980. In 1981, 803 was sold to IRM, which repainted it and made it operational. Although it has operated at Union in the past, it is in need of minor work and is currently simply on display.

FUN FACT: A dozen electric locomotives identical to 803 were sold to the Milwaukee Road and operated in the Pacific Northwest. They were nicknamed “Little Joes” because they’d been built for the Soviet Union, led by Josef Stalin. Chicago South Shore & South Bend 803 Details. Builder: General Electric Year Built: 1949 Length: 88ft 10in ...

Here is a tour inside the South Shore line #803 at the Illinois Railway Museum. This locomotive is not much different from a Milwaukee road Little Joe, and s...

South Shore 803 operating at the Illinois Railway Museum in 2013 Milwaukee Road. Milwaukee #E70 is on static display at Deer Lodge, Montana. South Shore. South Shore #803 is preserved, in operational condition, at the Illinois Railway Museum (IRM).

Milwaukee Road Photographic Roster : Reporting Marks: MILW Showing Locomotive model GP9 : Click on a locomotive to view pictures

Apr 13, 2006 · At its Michigan City, Ind., shops, the railroad converted the locomotives to run on 1,500 volts and removed the multiple-unit controls. Then it numbered the trio 801, 802, and 803. In day-to-day operation, the South Shore Little Joes were rated at 5,600 horsepower, while the Milwaukee versions were rated at 5,110 horsepower.

The double-ended locomotives were re-gauged and sold to a Brazilian railway and two U.S. railroads, the Milwaukee Road and the South Shore. On the Milwaukee they were known as "Little Joes," after Soviet dictator Josef Stalin, but the South Shore's three units, 801-803, were known simply as "the 800s."

MILW GP9 #803 - Milwaukee Road Rail fan Dick Berry photographed this GP9 while it sat in the Bensenville, IL, yard. The image is from his orginal negative in my collection.