Three Geeps hustle Rock Island tonnage westbound over Union Pacific traffic rights at North Topeka, Kansas as Santa Fe’s local from Atchison with a Fairbanks-Morse road-switcher also arrives tow... (more)

“Can you hear me now?” Rock Island GP40 371 and GP35 318 follow a rural “grapevine” phone line near Mayetta, Kansas northward toward St. Joseph, Mo. July 3, 1965.

With E8 653 and a passenger Geep, Rock Island's mail Train 39 "Imperial" with one coach leaves Topeka, Ks. on a dreary Nov. 5, 1966. At Tucumcari, N.M., Rock Island will hand the train over to SP... (more)

The conductor on an eastbound Rock Island freight grabs orders from the operator at Culver Tower in Muscatine where the MILW mainline from Kansas City joined the RI mainline to Davenport.

John was in Davenport for a 3-week training at the RI Arsenal in 1967 and took advantage of his off time to capture images around the area. In the small town of Geneseo the Golden State Ltd. is a... (more)

Alco FA 139, rebuilt by EMD and riding on EMD trucks, brings Rock Island's westward train into North Topeka, Ks. on U.P. trackage rights May 23, 1965. GP-7s and a F7B help, and the train will so... (more)

A typical midwestern scene -- Rock Island mail train No. 39 with a single coach on the rear leaves Herington, Kansas on May 31, 1965 to continue its run to Tucumcari, N.M. to be handed over to the... (more)

an eastbound Rock Island trains is doing some switching in the yard at Tucumcari prior to departing