Tenant Rock Island F7(A) #114, with F7(A) #127, and GP18 #1334 in full pin striped paint scheme, share North Yard space with D&RGW F7(A) #5604. Photo from my slide collection, photographer unknow... (more)
I never spent much time on the Rock as I didn't start shooting slides until 1975-76 and even though I traveled the mid-west before it shut down I always seemed to concentrate on Soo, BN, CNW and t... (more)
On the east side of Joliet around the turn of the century, and in the heyday of railroads, there were four rail yards within one mile of each other.
The Elgin Joliet & Eastern, The Michigan Centr... (more)
Rock Island's bicentennial E8 652 debutes on the 20th Century Railroad Club's Railfair '76 special from Chicago to Bureau, shown here departing Chicago.