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.

With four F units and two Geeps, Rock Island’s 106 West has just returned to its own trackage and guns it out of Topeka, Ks. headed west on April 18, 1965.

East of Goodland two Rock Island F7s are straining to drag just 40 cars across western Kansas against the Kansas wind on Sept. 26, 1966. The train should be in Denver before daybreak. The track ... (more)