CB&Q's famed "Silver Pilot". Seen here leading an excursion back from Bureau, IL only minutes away from Rock Island during Train Festival 2011.

The Nebraska Zephyr rolls east on the ex-Rock Island through Silvis on its way to Bureau and back.

Long lines of engines wait there fate in the NREX yard at Silvis.

Nickle Plate 765 rolls into the Quad Cities after a long day of pulling an excursion train to Bureau, IL, as part of Trainfestival 2011. Amtrak's Phase I and II heritage units are located directly... (more)

A current view at Silvis, the yard expansion and shop construction is hurting the view. A roster shot of the now mono-tone tunnel motor would be a nice addition.

Rocks Island U30C #4583 resting between trips at Silvis, IL || June 1975

The conductor on a late running BICB-03 (IAIS 501) walks up to the next switch so the train can pull into the yard at Silvis while CBBI-03 (IAIS 504) pulls down the mainline in a light snow.

Rock Island 268 leads a U28B/GP40/GP7/GP38-2 lashup near the Silvis Shop less than a month before shutdown.

Less than one month before the end, Rock Island SW1500 947 shoves two classic fifty-footers over the Silvis hump.

In some ways, it's as though the Rock is reborn as an Iowa Interstate GEVO leads the CBBI freight past the growing IAIS yard at Silvis. The "new" yard in front of the NRE (former RI) Silvis Sh... (more)

This was power for the Lafayette, Illinois, coal train. GP9s 1331 and 1332 bracket F7Bs 13, 10 and 12. All the units carry the brilliant red and yellow "billboard" scheme which was usurped by "B... (more)

This was taken 4 days after it was all over.