Rock Island mail and express kept No.21, the Memphis-Tucumcari train in the timetable in November 1962, as W/B FP7 410 leaves El Reno, OK. Only a chair car was operated for the few passengers, with a breakfast stop at McAlester, OK, lunch stop at El Reno, OK, and dinner during the 30 minute stop at Amarillo, TX. Photo by Emery Goulash, from my collection.
The Rock Island was an also-ran in the markets it served competing the likes of the Santa Fe Super Chief and Burlington Denver Zephyr, but it did its best to put on a good show.
Photos of North America's favorite First Generation locomotives. EMD, ALCO, Baldwin; essentially anything that represents the OG wide cab diesel locomotive
