Rock Island U33B's 298 and 297 sandwich "The Great American Energy Saver" Rock Island slug 284 on an eastbound manifest at 34th Street Moline. Kodachrome slide processed in March 1977.
Two products of the GP9 rebuild program, 4479 and 4490, sits on the west side of the Silvis shop building. Kodachrome slide processed in March 1977.
Recently rebuilt by the shops at Silvis, Rock Island GP7R 4500 leads a westbound under the cantilever signal bridge guarding eastbound movements over Burlington Northern's Galesburg to Savanna mai... (more)
Rock Island GP38-2 4310 was built in October of 1976 and was dedicated to "The American Railfan." The 4310 sits with several other GP38-2s at Silvis, IL. Kodachrome slide processed in November 19... (more)
A U30C is teamed up with SD40-2 on a westbound freight climbing out of the Mississippi River valley in Davenport. This Kodachrome was processed in February 1977.
Resting between assignments in Colorado Springs, Colorado, on August 29th, 1973, is Rock Island GP40 4715.
A 40-foot Rock Island boxcar, along with a a pair of 50-foot Santa Fe plug-door boxcars (one not visible located behind these two), ended up being pretty nice storage units for someone at Slapout... (more)
When the station name comes off a station and is placed on a post, that’s a clue something is about to happen — Union Pacific’s station at Strasburg, Colo. was soon closed and moved away in ... (more)
Unfortunately Rock Island’s jaunty paint scheme on these 3 GP-38-2’s rushing its train west to Denver on U.P. trackage rights was not enough to save the railroad which a bankruptcy court order... (more)
At Tucumcari, New Mexico, midwestern grainger railroad Rock Island interchanged with the Southern Pacific Railroad. Having just swapped power in Tucumcari, this freight is now a Rock Island train... (more)
Rock Island E8 and train is headed out of the station on a hot hazy summer day. Kodachrome II film.
Four Fs and an Alco FB get hotshot Rock Island 106’s train rolling south out of Omaha, Nebr. late in the day on May 8, 1965.
Four F7 units get a roll on westbound Rock Island tonnage (and several 40-ft. box cars) out of Wellington, Kansas on Feb. 15, 1970, ten years before the road went out of existence. The second un... (more)
Arriving Kansas City, Mo. at Sheffield Tower, Rock Island’s 328 West heads for its terminal across the river in Kansas City, Ks
