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Viewing Album:  Rock Island
 
By:Chuck Zeiler
Dates:1/1/1955 - 12/31/1979
Album Info:Photos of the Chicago Rock Island & Pacific, mostly shot in the Chicago area between 1964 and 1979. The Rock Island ran its first train October 10, 1852 and was liquidated March 31, 1980.
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CRI&P GP38-2 4325
Title:  CRI&P GP38-2 4325
Description:  CRI&P GP38-2 4325, Blue Island, Illinois, October 1979, photo by Chuck Zeiler. Built in October 1976 (c/n 757136-11) and named "Nebraska", this locomotive became MP 2263, later UP 2263, later still UP 763 (Nov. 11, 2000), andd even later GMTX 2134 (Dec. 28, 2007).
Photo Date:  10/1/1979  Upload Date: 11/12/2009 11:37:17 AM
Location:  Blue Island, IL
Author:  Chuck Zeiler
Categories:  Roster
Locomotives:  CRIP 4325(GP38-2)
Views:  1253   Comments: 2
CRI&P BEM 4382
Title:  CRI&P BEM 4382
Description:  CRI&P class BEM 4382, Blue Island, Illinois, July 1982, photo by Chuck Zeiler. This was one of 25 baggage-mail-express cars in the 4360-4384 number series. They were built by the Saint Louis Car Company in 1961. They had a 25 ton capacity, included toilet facilities and a space for a messenger, and an inside length of 65' 7" (70 ' 1" over buffers).
Photo Date:  7/1/1982  Upload Date: 12/8/2009 10:49:49 AM
Location:  Blue Island, IL
Author:  Chuck Zeiler
Categories:  RollingStock
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Views:  1226   Comments: 0
CRI&P GP7R 4459
Title:  CRI&P GP7R 4459
Description:  CRIP GP7R 4459 at Armourdale Yard in Kansas City, Kansas on August 15, 1975, 35mm slide by Paul L. Strang, Chuck Zeiler collection. Built in July 1952 as CRI&P GP7 1253 (c/n 16462) on EMD Order 5136, it was rebuilt by Morrison-Knudsen (March 19, 1975) for Precision National and leased back to the Rock Island. When the Rock folded in 1980, the leased units went back the PNC, later, this unit was sold to the C&NW, becoming 4134. During 1974-75, PNC purchased GP7's from the Wabash, Rio Grande, Nickel Plate, Frisco, and Rock Island, and had them rebuilt, either at Silvis, Illinois (work done by the CRI&P for PNC), M-K at Boise, Idaho, or the ICG at Paducah, Kentucky; 120 of the completed units were leased to the Rock Island. This particular unit has a M-K plate below the cab on the frame.
Photo Date:  8/15/1975  Upload Date: 11/13/2009 1:48:43 PM
Location:  Armourdale yard, Kansas City, Ka
Author:  Paul L. Strang
Categories:  Roster
Locomotives:  CRIP 4459(GP7R)
Views:  1095   Comments: 2
CRI&P GP7R 4500
Title:  CRI&P GP7R 4500
Description:  CRI&P GP7R 4500 at Blue Island, Illinois on an unknown day in October 1979, Kodachrome by Chuck Zeiler.
Photo Date:  10/1/1979  Upload Date: 3/26/2012 11:13:14 AM
Location:  Blue Island, IL
Author:  Chuck Zeiler
Categories:  Roster
Locomotives:  CRIP 4500(GP7R)
Views:  824   Comments: 1
CRI&P GP7R 4508
Title:  CRI&P GP7R 4508
Description:  CRI&P GP7R 4508 at the Rocket House about 47th Street, Chicago, Illinois on an unknown day in April 1975, photo by S. Downey, Chuck Zeiler collection. Built in July 1952 as CRI&P 1260 (c/n 16469) on EMD Order 5136, it was rebuilt sometime in early 1975 to GP7R 4508.

By early 1975, the Rock Island could no longer pay its bills, and petitioned the backruptcy courts for reorganization and protection from creditors on March 17, 1975. Federal Judge Frank McGarr appointed as trustee William M. Gibbons, who promptly appointed John W. Ingram as president and CEO. One of Ingram's first actions was to announce a new paint scheme and image, and this may or may not be the first locomotive to wear that New Image paint. It later became C&NW 4162.

Photo Date:  4/1/1975  Upload Date: 11/16/2009 12:52:55 PM
Location:  Chicago, IL
Author:  S. Downey
Categories:  Roster
Locomotives:  CRIP 4508(GP7R)
Views:  1073   Comments: 1
CRI&P GP7R 4511
Title:  CRI&P GP7R 4511
Description:  CRI&P GP7R 4511, Blue Island, Illinois, October 1979, photo by Chuck Zeiler. Built in July 1952 as CRI&P GP7 1258 (c/n 16467) on EMD Order 5136, it was rebuilt to GP7R 4511 and later became C&NW 4165.
Photo Date:  10/1/1979  Upload Date: 11/17/2009 11:27:09 AM
Location:  Blue Island, IL
Author:  Chuck Zeiler
Categories:  Roster
Locomotives:  CRIP 4511(GP7R)
Views:  801   Comments: 0
CRI&P GP7R 4526
Title:  CRI&P GP7R 4526
Description:  CRI&P GP7R 4526, Blue!Island, Illinois, October 1979, photo by Chuck Zeiler. Built in July 1952 as CRI&P GP7 1254, it was sold to Precision National and rebuilt to GP7R 4426 and leased back to the Rock Island. When the RI folded in 1980, this locomotive was sold by PNC to the C&NW, becoming 4180. For the record, the trailing unit is 4500.
Photo Date:  10/1/1979  Upload Date: 11/18/2009 10:10:12 AM
Location:  Blue Island, IL
Author:  Chuck Zeiler
Categories:  Roster
Locomotives:  CRIP 4526(GP7R)
Views:  626   Comments: 0
CRI&P GP7R 4526
Title:  CRI&P GP7R 4526
Description:  CRI&P GP7R 4526, Blue Island, Illinois, October 1979, photo by Chuck Zeiler. This is one of the last trains I saw on the Rock Island.
Photo Date:  10/1/1979  Upload Date: 11/19/2009 10:13:45 AM
Location:  Blue Island, IL
Author:  Chuck Zeiler
Categories:  Roster
Locomotives:  CRIP 4526(GP7R)
Views:  699   Comments: 1
CRI&P GP40 4708
Title:  CRI&P GP40 4708
Description:  CRI&P GP40 4708, Howe, Oklahoma, June 19, 1975, photo by Paul L. Strang, Chuck Zeiler collection. Built in March 1970 (c/n 36394) on EMD Order 7263, it was financed by the UP and leased to the Rock Island. When the RI shut down in 1980, the leased units were returned to the UP, this particular unit was renumbered to 639 (April 5, 1980). It was repainted into UP paint on May 2, 1980, received Missouri Pacific North Little Rock lettering September 23, 1985, and was retired by the UP October 23, 1991. Also, the following is from Utahrails.net: MP 639 was leased to NdeM in October 1989 to March 1991; returned UP and stored unserviceable; sold to Phoenix Railway Corp., Spokane, Wash., in February 1992; sale rescinded; sold to Helm Financial, 27 March 1992.
Photo Date:  6/19/1975  Upload Date: 11/19/2009 11:31:25 AM
Location:  Howe, OK
Author:  Paul L. Strang
Categories:  Roster
Locomotives:  CRIP 4708(GP40)
Views:  881   Comments: 1
CRI&P SW1 4804
Title:  CRI&P SW1 4804
Description:  CRI&P SW1 4804, LaSalle Street Station, Chicago, Illinois, June 1979, photo by Chuck Zeiler. Built in June 1946 as the first IC 9025 (c/n 3293) on EMD Order E668, it was later renumbered to 610 by the IC. It came the RI becoming 4804, later it would become RTA 2 then Metra 2.
Photo Date:  6/1/1979  Upload Date: 11/20/2009 10:36:17 AM
Location:  Chicago, IL
Author:  Chuck Zeiler
Categories:  Roster
Locomotives:  CRIP 4804(SW1) RTA 111(F40PH)
Views:  1192   Comments: 0
CRI&P SW1 4804
Title:  CRI&P SW1 4804
Description:  CRI&P SW1 4804, La Salle Street Station, Chicago, Illinois, August, 1979, photo by Chuck Zeiler
Photo Date:  8/1/1979  Upload Date: 5/17/2010 11:38:30 AM
Location:  Chicago, IL
Author:  Chuck Zeiler
Categories:  Roster
Locomotives:  CRIP 4804(SW1)
Views:  808   Comments: 0
CRI&P SW1 4804
Title:  CRI&P SW1 4804
Description:  CRI&P SW1 4804, Blue Island, Illinois, July 12, 1982, photo by Chuck Zeiler. Built in June 1946 as the first IC 9025 (c/n 3293) on EMD Order E668, it was renumbered during October 1953 to 610 by the IC, sold to Precision National in 1969. It came the RI in 1970 becoming 4804, later it would become RTA 2 then METX (Metra) 2.
Photo Date:  7/12/1982  Upload Date: 11/20/2009 12:44:54 PM
Location:  Blue Island, IL
Author:  Chuck Zeiler
Categories:  Roster
Locomotives:  CRIP 4804(SW1)
Views:  1009   Comments: 2
CRI&P NW2 4901
Title:  CRI&P NW2 4901
Description:  CRI&P NW2 4901 at about 18th Street, Chicago, Illinois, July 1978, photo by Chuck Zeiler. The NW2 is northbound, approaching the 16th Street interlocking which controls thr crossing of the ICG's Saint Charles Airline. Overhead the CTA's Budd-built transit cars are passing on the Dan Ryan line, later called the Red Line. The extra cribbing below the CTA supports was to repair stress cracks which showed up shortly after this bridge was put into service.
Photo Date:  7/1/1978  Upload Date: 11/24/2009 10:12:40 AM
Location:  Chicago, IL
Author:  Chuck Zeiler
Categories:  Roster
Locomotives:  CRIP 4901(NW2)
Views:  725   Comments: 0
CRI&P NW2 4901
Title:  CRI&P NW2 4901
Description:  CRI&P NW2 4901 at about 18th Street in Chicago, Illinois on an unknown day in August 1979, Kodachrome by Chuck Zeiler.
Photo Date:  8/1/1979  Upload Date: 5/15/2015 1:08:01 PM
Location:  Chicago, IL
Author:  Chuck Zeiler
Categories:  Roster
Locomotives:  CRIP 4901(NW2)
Views:  455   Comments: 0
CRI&P NW2 4905
Title:  CRI&P NW2 4905
Description:  CRI&P NW2 4905, Blue Island, Illinois, October 1979, photo by Chuck Zeiler. Number 4905 was built in March 1949 as P&LE 8741 (c/n 7419) on EMD Order E1056, becoming RI 4905 sometime in the early 1970's, then moving on to Kuhlman Bulk Terminals becoming #1. The two C415's, built in 1966, also moved on to other careers, becoming Brandon 423 and 421.
Photo Date:  10/1/1979  Upload Date: 11/24/2009 11:33:48 AM
Location:  Blue Island, IL
Author:  Chuck Zeiler
Categories:  Roster
Locomotives:  CRIP 4905(NW2) CRIP 423(C415) CRIP 421(C415)
Views:  1370   Comments: 1
CRI&P NW2 4908
Title:  CRI&P NW2 4908
Description:  CRI&P NW2 4908, Blue Island, Illinois, October 1979, photo by Chuck Zeiler. Built in March 1949 as P&LE NW2 8748 (c/n 7426) on EMD Order E1056, it migrated to the Rock Island sometime in the early 1970's.
Photo Date:  10/1/1979  Upload Date: 11/25/2009 10:38:22 AM
Location:  Blue Island, IL
Author:  Chuck Zeiler
Categories:  Roster
Locomotives:  CRIP 4908(NW2)
Views:  578   Comments: 1
CRI&P NW2 4908
Title:  CRI&P NW2 4908
Description:  CRI&P NW2 4908, Blue Island, Illinois, October 1979, photo by Chuck Zeiler. Built in March 1949 as P&LE NW2 8748 (c/n 7426) on EMD Order E1056, it migrated to the Rock Island sometime in the early 1970's. This locomotive presents a bit of a challenge to diesel spotters. It is listed in the roster resources as an NW2, but shows a couple of characteristics of a SW7. At the time of its construction, the NW2 production had been transferred to the Cleveland, Ohio plant (EMD Plant #3, which produced the NW2's between February - December 1949). The most outstanding feature is the full height front radiator grill, very uncharacteristic of an NW2. This locomotive also has a single taper hood, which was introduced on the last production run of NW2's. Note also the single row of louvers on the hood doors, whereas late production NW2's had two rows of louvers and a letterboard space between ( early NW2's had no louvers, a subsequent production had louvers top to bottom, no letterboad gap). Finally, it has twin sealed-beam headlights. This unit does have the NW2 arched windows in the cab over the hood. There are two possible explanations: the Cleveland plant may have used SW7 components, or this may have been a wreck repair. For those of you that have ever wondered (I have) about that intake grill that is below the front of the cab window at the running board, that is the intake for the rear traction motor blower, the motor of which is located under the fireman's (left) side of the cab.
Photo Date:  10/1/1979  Upload Date: 11/25/2009 12:16:02 PM
Location:  Blue Island, IL
Author:  Chuck Zeiler
Categories:  Roster
Locomotives:  CRIP 4908(NW2)
Views:  754   Comments: 3
Rock Island 5756
Title:  Rock Island 5756
Description:  Rock Island Railroad 5756 at Blue Island, Illinois on an unknown day in July 1982, Fujichrome by Chuck Zeiler. According to the October 1971 edition of the ORER ( Official Railway Equipment Register ), the Rock Island had 50 cars in the 5750 - 5799 number series, AAR class R206, and ( Note 45 ) "equipped with fork lift truck pallets, platforms or skids, which will be considered as part of the car and are in assigned service." Further, Note 88 states, "Cars in series 5750 to 5799 have 'PS-20' travel cushion underframe, are insulated and equipped with DF-B load divider bulkheads and load side fillers, single 10 ft. plug type sliding door."
Photo Date:  7/1/1982  Upload Date: 4/21/2017 11:27:22 AM
Location:  Blue Island, IL
Author:  Chuck Zeiler
Categories:  RollingStock
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Views:  311   Comments: 0
RI 5786
Title:  RI 5786
Description:  Rock Island Railroad 5786 at Blue Island, Illinois on an unknown day in July 1982, Fujichrome by Chuck Zeiler. According to the October 1971 edition of the ORER ( Official Railway Equipment Register ), the Rock Island had 50 cars in the 5750 - 5799 number series, AAR class R206, and ( Note 45 ) "equipped with fork lift truck pallets, platforms or skids, which will be considered as part of the car and are in assigned service." Further, Note 88 states, "Cars in series 5750 to 5799 have 'PS-20' travel cushion underframe, are insulated and equipped with DF-B load divider bulkheads and load side fillers, single 10 ft. plug type sliding door."
Photo Date:  7/1/1982  Upload Date: 2/16/2019 7:52:14 PM
Location:  Blue Island, IL
Author:  Chuck Zeiler
Categories:  RollingStock
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Views:  124   Comments: 0
RI 6141
Title:  RI 6141
Description:  Rock Island Railroad 6141 at Blue Island, Illinois on an unknown day in July 1982, Fujichrome by Chuck Zeiler.
Photo Date:  7/1/1982  Upload Date: 4/21/2017 7:39:33 PM
Location:  Blue Island, IL
Author:  Chuck Zeiler
Categories:  RollingStock
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Views:  276   Comments: 0
Rock Island RBL 6309
Title:  Rock Island RBL 6309
Description:  Rock Island Railroad 6309 at Blue Island, Illinois on an unknown day in July 1982, Ektachrome by Chuck Zeiler. This car was stenciled: BLT. 5-63 and REAR END ONLY .
Photo Date:  7/1/1982  Upload Date: 6/10/2017 7:08:37 PM
Location:  Blue Island, IL
Author:  Chuck Zeiler
Categories:  RollingStock
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Views:  229   Comments: 0
RI 6365
Title:  RI 6365
Description:  Rock Island Railroad 6365 at Blue Island, Illinois on an unknown day in July 1982, Ektachrome by Chuck Zeiler. The COTS sticker indicates this car was BLT. 6-63 .
Photo Date:  7/1/1982  Upload Date: 7/6/2017 6:59:40 PM
Location:  Blue Island, IL
Author:  Chuck Zeiler
Categories:  RollingStock
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Views:  194   Comments: 0
RI 6597
Title:  RI 6597
Description:  Rock Island Railroad 6597 at Blue Island, Illinois on an unknown day in July 1982, Ektachrome by Chuck Zeiler. This car was stenciled: BLT. 3-50 .
Photo Date:  7/1/1982  Upload Date: 7/6/2017 7:55:38 PM
Location:  Blue Island, IL
Author:  Chuck Zeiler
Categories:  RollingStock
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Views:  257   Comments: 0
RI 9596
Title:  RI 9596
Description:  Rock Island Railroad 9596 at the Rocket House near 47th Street in Chicago, Illinois on an unknown day in June 1978, Ektachrome by Chuck Zeiler. This car was stenciled: BLT. 10-56. The following is from the book, Rock Island Color Guide to Freight and Passenger Equipment, by Messrs. Hile, Hickcox and Miller: RI LF series 1 - 50 - In 1956 ACF delivered 50 experimental container flat cars known as Adapto cars to the Rock Island. The cars were 41' 4" coupled ( stenciled 38' - 0" ) and could carry two 17' containers. The Adapto cars rode on two single-axle fixed trucks with a unique automotive type suspension with torsion springs and Monroe stabilizers. Despite the considerable fanfare and publicity, no other railroad adopted the Adapto car concept and by the late 1960's the Rock Island phased them out except for company service. When the Rock Island took delivery of the 50 Adapto cars in 1956, ACF also provided a variety of modular containers to attach to the cars with a unique Christmas tree-shaped load restraint device provided by Clark. Dubbed "Convert-a-Frate" by the Rock Island, they were an early form of COFC or containers on flat car.
Photo Date:  7/1/1978  Upload Date: 8/4/2017 7:00:31 PM
Location:  Chicago, IL
Author:  Chuck Zeiler
Categories:  RollingStock
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RI 9596
Title:  RI 9596
Description:  Rock Island Railroad 9596 at Blue Island, Illinois on July 12, 1982, Kodachrome by Chuck Zeiler. This car was stenciled: BLT. 10-56. The following is from the book, Rock Island Color Guide to Freight and Passenger Equipment, by Messrs. Hile, Hickcox and Miller: RI LF series 1 - 50 - In 1956 ACF delivered 50 experimental container flat cars known as Adapto cars to the Rock Island. The cars were 41' 4" coupled ( stenciled 38' - 0" ) and could carry two 17' containers. The Adapto cars rode on two single-axle fixed trucks with a unique automotive type suspension with torsion springs and Monroe stabilizers. Despite the considerable fanfare and publicity, no other railroad adopted the Adapto car concept and by the late 1960's the Rock Island phased them out except for company service. When the Rock Island took delivery of the 50 Adapto cars in 1956, ACF also provided a variety of modular containers to attach to the cars with a unique Christmas tree-shaped load restraint device provided by Clark. Dubbed "Convert-a-Frate" by the Rock Island, they were an early form of COFC or containers on flat car.
Photo Date:  7/12/1982  Upload Date: 8/4/2017 6:17:27 PM
Location:  Blue Island, IL
Author:  Chuck Zeiler
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Rock Island 16318
Title:  Rock Island 16318
Description:  Rock Island Railroad 16318 at Blue Island, Illinois on July 31, 1983, Kodachrome by Chuck Zeiler.
Photo Date:  7/31/1983  Upload Date: 8/4/2017 2:31:12 PM
Location:  Blue Island, IL
Author:  Chuck Zeiler
Categories:  RollingStock
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CRI&P NE 17728
Title:  CRI&P NE 17728
Description:  CRI&P NE 17728, Blue Island, Illinois, October 1979, photo by Chuck Zeiler. The Rock Island fabricated cabooses from old boxcars, this is one example, made sometime around 1943 from boxcars that were built in 1915 in 42200-45699 number series.. This one may still exist at Sharon, Wisconsin on the Schuyler W. Case Farm, Stateline Road.
Photo Date:  10/1/1979  Upload Date: 11/17/2009 12:08:31 PM
Location:  Blue Island, IL
Author:  Chuck Zeiler
Categories:  Roster,RollingStock
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Views:  1002   Comments: 1
Rock Island 17841
Title:  Rock Island 17841
Description:  Rock Island 17841 at about 47th Street in Chicago, Illinois on March 23, 1965, Kodachrome by Chuck Zeiler.
Photo Date:  3/23/1965  Upload Date: 4/18/2018 9:40:49 PM
Location:  Chicago, IL
Author:  Chuck Zeiler
Categories:  RollingStock
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Views:  215   Comments: 0
CRI&P 17843
Title:  CRI&P 17843
Description:  CRI&P caboose 17843 at Cotter, Arkansas on September 24, 2011, digital image by Chuck Zeiler.
Photo Date:  9/24/2011  Upload Date: 10/31/2011 1:32:53 PM
Location:  Cotter, AR
Author:  Chuck Zeiler
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Views:  316   Comments: 0
CRI&P 17843
Title:  CRI&P 17843
Description:  CRI&P caboose 17843 at Cotter, Arkansas on September 24, 2011, digital image by Chuck Zeiler.
Photo Date:  9/24/2011  Upload Date: 10/31/2011 1:36:37 PM
Location:  Cotter, AR
Author:  Chuck Zeiler
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CRI&P 17843
Title:  CRI&P 17843
Description:  CRI&P caboose 17843 at Cotter, Arkansas on September 24, 2011, digital image by Chuck Zeiler.
Photo Date:  9/24/2011  Upload Date: 10/31/2011 1:38:14 PM
Location:  Cotter, AR
Author:  Chuck Zeiler
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CRI&P 17843
Title:  CRI&P 17843
Description:  CRI&P caboose 17843 at Cotter, Arkansas on September 24, 2011, digital image by Chuck Zeiler.
Photo Date:  9/24/2011  Upload Date: 10/31/2011 1:39:54 PM
Location:  Cotter, AR
Author:  Chuck Zeiler
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CRI&P NE 17879
Title:  CRI&P NE 17879
Description:  CRI&P NE 17879, Blue Island, Illinois, July 12, 1982, photo by Chuck Zeiler. Built around 1930, this was one of qhe 17850-17899 number series, the first steel cabooses on the Rock Island. It is stencilled: ERIE TRANSFER ONLY and also has a circle R, which I do not know the meaning of. It's in pretty sad shape, but not as bad as the Blue Island roundhouse in the background. By the date of this photo, the Rock Island had been gone for a little over two years.
Photo Date:  7/12/1982  Upload Date: 11/18/2009 10:50:59 AM
Location:  Blue Island, IL
Author:  Chuck Zeiler
Categories:  Roster,RollingStock
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Views:  1097   Comments: 1
CRI&P 19103
Title:  CRI&P 19103
Description:  Rock Island 19103 in Peoria, Illinois on July 23, 1963, photograph by Chuck Zeiler.
Photo Date:  7/23/1963  Upload Date: 1/21/2015 12:23:34 PM
Location:  Peoria, IL
Author:  Chuck Zeiler
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CRI&P NE 19111
Title:  CRI&P NE 19111
Description:  CRI&P NE 19111, Blue Island, Illinois, July 12, 1982, photo by Chuck Zeiler. Obviously built from a boxcar, this transfer caboose was still on the property two years afuer the Rock Island shut down. Too bad the creditors could not have been paid in blue paint, the Rock Island seemed to have plenty of that.
Photo Date:  7/12/1982  Upload Date: 11/18/2009 11:32:36 AM
Location:  Blue Island, IL
Author:  Chuck Zeiler
Categories:  Roster,RollingStock
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Views:  1049   Comments: 1
CRI&P 19161
Title:  CRI&P 19161
Description:  Rock Island transfer caboose 19161 at Blue Island, Illinois on July 12, 1982, Kodachrome by Chuck Zeiler. Note that it has had a close encounter on the lower right corner; the Z braces are bent and some steel plates cover the wood. This car was one of seven in the 19160-19166 number series, rebuilt from road cabooses in the 17600 series which had been rebuilt in 1943 from class B-2 boxcars.
Photo Date:  7/12/1982  Upload Date: 12/7/2009 10:49:05 AM
Location:  Blue Island, IL
Author:  Chuck Zeiler
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Views:  1065   Comments: 0
RI 20725
Title:  RI 20725
Description:  Rock Island 20725 at Blue Island, Illinois on an unknown day in July 1982, Ektachrome by Chuck Zeiler. The following is from the book, Rock Island Color Guide to Freight and Passenger Equipment, by Messrs. Hile, Hickcox and Miller: In 1965 the Rock Island began hauling mail in truck trailers on passenger trains, especially the Des Moines Rocket. Accordingly, 29 flats from the 93300 - 93499 and 93150 - 93249 searies were given steam lines, signal hoses, and were equipped with RIMT trailer hitches. When the service withered due to the demise of the passenger trains, the cars retained their express service numbers. In fact, other cars joined the series, extending it to 20555. The 20600 - 20734 were also renumbered from the 93150 - 93249 with the conversion to ACF Model 5 trailer hitches. In the early 1970's the 20518 and 20530 - 20555 were also re-equipped with ACF Model 4 trailer hitches. The cars measured 88' 5" overall with an inside length of 85', extreme width was 10' 3" and extreme height was 7' 8".
Photo Date:  7/1/1982  Upload Date: 8/4/2017 7:36:22 PM
Location:  Blue Island, IL
Author:  Chuck Zeiler
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RI 26851
Title:  RI 26851
Description:  Rock Island 26851 at Blue Island, Illinois on July 12, 1982, Kodachrome by Chuck Zeiler.
Photo Date:  7/12/1982  Upload Date: 9/23/2017 10:43:45 PM
Location:  Blue Island, IL
Author:  Chuck Zeiler
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RI 27289
Title:  RI 27289
Description:  Rock Island 27289 at Blue Island, Illinois on July 12, 1982, Ektachrome by Chuck Zeiler.
Photo Date:  7/12/1982  Upload Date: 9/23/2017 11:38:46 PM
Location:  Blue Island, IL
Author:  Chuck Zeiler
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RI 27510
Title:  RI 27510
Description:  Rock Island 27510 at Blue Island, Illinois on July 12, 1982, Kodachrome by Chuck Zeiler. It is stenciled: BLT. 10-63
Photo Date:  7/12/1982  Upload Date: 9/24/2017 12:36:16 AM
Location:  Blue Island, IL
Author:  Chuck Zeiler
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RI 27788
Title:  RI 27788
Description:  Rock Island 27788 at Blue Island, Illinois on July 12, 1982, Kodachrome by Chuck Zeiler.
Photo Date:  7/12/1982  Upload Date: 9/24/2017 1:10:19 AM
Location:  Blue Island, IL
Author:  Chuck Zeiler
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RI 31024
Title:  RI 31024
Description:  Rock Island 31024 at Blue Island, Illinois on July 30, 1983, Kodachrome by Chuck Zeiler.
Photo Date:  7/30/1983  Upload Date: 11/10/2017 3:03:21 PM
Location:  Blue Island, IL
Author:  Chuck Zeiler
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RI 32946
Title:  RI 32946
Description:  Rock Island 32946 at Blue Island, Illinois on an unknown day in July 1982, Ektachrome by Chuck Zeiler.
Photo Date:  7/1/1982  Upload Date: 11/10/2017 3:21:36 PM
Location:  Blue Island, IL
Author:  Chuck Zeiler
Categories:  RollingStock
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RI 32946
Title:  RI 32946
Description:  Rock Island 32946 at Blue Island, Illinois on an unknown day in July 1982, Ektachrome by Chuck Zeiler.
Photo Date:  7/1/1982  Upload Date: 11/10/2017 5:21:04 PM
Location:  Blue Island, IL
Author:  Chuck Zeiler
Categories:  RollingStock
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Views:  246   Comments: 0
RI 33976
Title:  RI 33976
Description:  Rock Island 33976 at Blue Island, Illinois on July 30, 1983, Kodachrome by Chuck Zeiler.
Photo Date:  7/30/1983  Upload Date: 11/10/2017 7:24:55 PM
Location:  Blue Island, IL
Author:  Chuck Zeiler
Categories:  RollingStock
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Views:  217   Comments: 0
RI 33991
Title:  RI 33991
Description:  Rock Island 33991 at Blue Island, Illinois on an unknown day in July 1982, Ektachrome by Chuck Zeiler.
Photo Date:  7/1/1982  Upload Date: 3/2/2018 9:41:43 PM
Location:  Blue Island, IL
Author:  Chuck Zeiler
Categories:  RollingStock
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Views:  276   Comments: 0
RI 40551
Title:  RI 40551
Description:  Rock Island 40551 at Blue Island, Illinois on July 31, 1983, Kodachrome by Chuck Zeiler.
Photo Date:  7/31/1983  Upload Date: 3/2/2018 11:05:38 PM
Location:  Blue Island, IL
Author:  Chuck Zeiler
Categories:  RollingStock
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Views:  224   Comments: 0
RI 40865
Title:  RI 40865
Description:  Rock Island 40865 at Blue Island, Illinois on an unknown day in March 1981, Kodachrome by Chuck Zeiler.
Photo Date:  3/1/1981  Upload Date: 4/18/2018 12:45:42 PM
Location:  Blue Island, IL
Author:  Chuck Zeiler
Categories:  RollingStock
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Views:  256   Comments: 0

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