Rock Island E6A 630 and a drab E7B heads the Twin Star Rocket at Fort Worth, Texas in December 1960. Photo by R. Plummer, from my slide collection.

Dressed-up in the full "wings" treatment, the 1293 was working the Peoria yard in April 1960. Photographer M.L. Powell, R Lalonde collection.

Eastbound CRIP train working east end of yard Tucumcari

Rock Island E7(A) 642 and DL-105 622 lead a passenger train in Chicago in the early 1960s R.T. Steinbrenner Photo

R.T. Steinbrenner Photo

Only a month after it's demotion to a no-name train, Rock Island's train #7 gets ready to depart for Council Bluffs/Omaha. The photographer grabs a shot at the platforms of the depot in Davenport ... (more)

The last remnant of Rocky Mountain/Corn Belt Rockets, a month after being demoted to nameless train #7, departs Council Bluffs for the Omaha side of the river. The announced loss of it's primary ... (more)

A northbound Rock Island merchandise freight is rolling downgrade off Concho Hill.

The Rock Island crossing the Gulf, Mobile & Ohio and Santa Fe tracks at Joliet, Illinois with an eastbound freight lead by EMD FTA 88, FTB 88A, F7B 120B and BL2 526 July 8, 1965. Photo taken fro... (more)

A westbound freight led by a quartet of GE U-boats gets ready to thump across Burlington Northern's Galesburg to Savanna mainline. Kodachrome slide processed in September 1974.

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)

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)

Two laborers hurry to finishing refueling Rock Island 40 East at Herington, Kansas — a poor man’s fueling facility on the ground, no pipes, no uprights.

Rock Island Geep 1330 leads its local over the manual CB&Q crossing on the outskirts of St.Joseph, Missouri for a customer probably waiting for his shipment in the insulated box car. October 22, ... (more)

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.