Sitting on a BNSF flatcar on the east side of the former Rock Island shop, the Eldon (IA) Depot Museum's re-incarnated Rock Island GP7 1275 received some last minute work to lower the exhaust stac... (more)

Two 150-ton overhead cranes work together at the former Rock Island shop to load a former Santa Fe GP7 wearing Rock Island paint onto a BNSF flatcar. The re-incarnated Rock Island 1275 is going to... (more)

Sitting on a BNSF flatcar on the east side of the former Rock Island shop, the Eldon (IA) Depot Museum's re-incarnated Rock Island GP7 1275 is receiving some last minute work to lower the exhaust ... (more)

Two 150-ton overhead cranes work together at the former Rock Island shop to load a former Santa Fe GP7 wearing Rock Island paint onto a BNSF flatcar. The re-incarnated Rock Island 1275 is going t... (more)

National Railway Equipment in Silvis, IL completed the new Rock Island 1275 last week. Iowa Interstate's Rock Island heritage was at NRE for wheel work and the pair were put together for a few ph... (more)

Chopped nosed 1275 and a couple of FB units from the Lafayette coal train power lead a westbound manifest at Atalissa, Iowa in the mid 1970's.