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Date: 12/07/25 15:51
A Rock Island FM H15-44
Author: MartyBernard

The Rock Island had only two FM H15-44, numbers 400 and 401. This shot of 401 was taken from Chicago's Roosevelt Road Viaduct on May 13, 1964.

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Date: 12/07/25 18:03
Re: A Rock Island FM H15-44
Author: refarkas

Wonderful FM photo.
Bob

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Date: 12/07/25 18:30
Re: A Rock Island FM H15-44
Author: CPR_4000

Repowered with a 567 by this time.

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Date: 12/07/25 18:30
Re: A Rock Island FM H15-44
Author: PHall

From the location of the exhaust stacks it appears to have already been re-engined by EMD in this photo.

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Date: 12/07/25 18:46
Re: A Rock Island FM H15-44
Author: Gonut1

Hefty looking brute, bastardized with EMD inners, sigh! Like putting a Chevy Sovebolt in a Ford "T" Bucket.
Disgraceful.
Go

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Date: 12/07/25 22:01
Re: A Rock Island FM H15-44
Author: CPR_4000

Gonut1 Wrote:
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> Hefty looking brute, bastardized with EMD inners,
> sigh! Like putting a Chevy Sovebolt in a Ford "T" Bucket.

My favorite F-M rebuilds were the Wabash Train Masters that were done by Alco. Unfortunately N&W relegated them to hump service after the merger.

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Date: 12/08/25 05:13
Re: A Rock Island FM H15-44
Author: Englewood

Thanks for posting.
Backing into 12th St. yard where a few tracks were used as a coach yard for suburban equipment.

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Date: 12/08/25 07:15
Re: A Rock Island FM H15-44
Author: Milwaukee

This provides an earlier view taken from about the same vantage point as a shot taken in 1977 posted by Santafe199 back on December 1st:   Maroon Monday for a northern location

I believe that the left side of the other photo captures the corner of the structure that the autos are parked in front of in the FM photo.   

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Date: 12/08/25 08:32
Re: A Rock Island FM H15-44
Author: PVSfan

Rail historian Bill Pollard of Little Rock just wrote an article for the South Central Chapter
of the R&LHS on the use of F-Ms on the Choctaw Route.  Very interesting!

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