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CRIP 655
Title:  CRIP 655
Description:  Although the Rock Island had once been a mighty fine line, by the late 1970s, it was rather run down. At La Salle Street Station in Chicago, an EMD E8A rests at the head of the Peoria Rocket in August 1977.
Photo Date:  8/15/1977  Upload Date: 9/13/2013 7:31:36 PM
Location:  Chicago, IL
Author:  John Hepp
Categories:  Station,Passenger
Locomotives:  CRIP 655(E8A)
Views:  304   Comments: 0
CRI&P 655
Title:  CRI&P 655
Description:  Eastbound Quad Cities Rocket. Date of photo approximate.
Photo Date:  10/1/1977  Upload Date: 8/9/2009 7:52:00 PM
Location:  Joliet, IL
Author:  Mike Woodruff
Categories: 
Locomotives:  CRIP 655(E8A)
Views:  553   Comments: 0
CRI&P E8 655
Title:  CRI&P E8 655
Description:  CRI&P D8 655, 16th Street, Chicago, Illinois, July 1978, photo by Chuck Zeiler. This is the Quad Cities Rocket, the last passenger train on the Rock Island, not counting the suburban commuter trains. It was dlscontinued December 31, 1978. The first passenger train arrived in the Quad Cities from Chicago on February 22, 1854. Called "The Rock Island Rocket," it was the first train traveling west to ever reach the Mississippi Rivor. The first railroad bridge constructed over the Mississippi River was completed in Rock Island during 1856 allowing for continued rail service to the western United States. The Rock Island provided passenger service to?the Quad Cities for nearly 125 years until 1978. The Quad Cities Rocket is seen here crossing the ICG Saint Charles Air Line at about 16th Street in Chicago, ICG's only direct connection to their entire Iowa Division.
Photo Date:  7/1/1978  Upload Date: 11/21/2009 10:58:13 AM
Location:  Chicago, IL
Author:  Chuck Zeiler
Categories:  Roster
Locomotives:  CRIP 655(E8A)
Views:  735   Comments: 2
CRI&P E8 655
Title:  CRI&P E8 655
Description:  CRI&P E8 655 at Englewood Union Station, Chicago, Illinois, July 1978, Ektachrome by Chuck Zeiler. This is the westbound Quad Cities Rocket passing by the Englewood Union Station at 63rd Street in Chicago. By this date no trains stopped at the station, which once saw both the NYC's 20th Century Limited and the PRR's Broadway Limited (among others), in addition to Rock Island's Rockets and the Nickel Plate passenger trains into Chicago. The PRR crossed the Rock Island here (on this date, Conrail tracks), and the NYC left the Rock Island and passed behind the depot. It was possible at one point to see both trains of the NYC and PRR at this depot, and sometimes they would race each other for several miles eastbound after departing this station, which was torn down in 1982.
Photo Date:  7/1/1978  Upload Date: 10/13/2009 1:44:30 PM
Location:  Englewood, IL
Author:  Chuck Zeiler
Categories:  Roster,Passenger
Locomotives:  CRIP 655(E8A)
Views:  1060   Comments: 2
#5, the WB Quad Cities Rocket As Seen from the Roosevelt Rd. Bridge
Title:  #5, the WB Quad Cities Rocket As Seen from the Roosevelt Rd. Bridge
Description: 
Photo Date:  7/7/1978  Upload Date: 2/21/2007 7:18:15 PM
Location:  Chicago, IL
Author:  Marty Bernard
Categories: 
Locomotives:  CRIP 655(E8A)
Views:  530   Comments: 2
RTA 109 and CRI&P 655 on LaSalle Street Station Leads
Title:  RTA 109 and CRI&P 655 on LaSalle Street Station Leads
Description: 
Photo Date:  7/7/1978  Upload Date: 10/17/2009 10:02:05 PM
Location:  Chicago, IL
Author:  Marty Bernard
Categories: 
Locomotives:  RTA 109(F40PH) CRIP 655(E8A)
Views:  633   Comments: 3
w/b CRI&P Rocket led by E8A #655 departing LaSalle Street Station
Title:  w/b CRI&P Rocket led by E8A #655 departing LaSalle Street Station
Description:  From Roosevelt Road
Photo Date:  7/17/1978  Upload Date: 7/15/2021 9:26:01 PM
Location:  Chicago, IL
Author:  Gerard Putz
Categories:  Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  CRIP 655(E8A)
Views:  140   Comments: 0
CRI&P E8 655
Title:  CRI&P E8 655
Description:  CRI&P E8 655 southbound (timetable westbound) at 33rd Street, Chicago, Illinois, August 1978, photo by Chuck Zeiler. Number 655 is seen heading the Quad Cities Rocket past the Armour Institute of Technology building, opened in 1893, and later became part of the Illinois Institute of Technology. Almost every train that left La Salle Street Station past by this building, including NYC's 20th Century Limited. The Quad Cities Rocket was discontinued December 31, 1978.
Photo Date:  8/1/1978  Upload Date: 10/13/2009 12:05:25 PM
Location:  Chicago, IL
Author:  Chuck Zeiler
Categories:  Roster,Passenger
Locomotives:  CRIP 655(E8A)
Views:  892   Comments: 3
CRI&P 655
Title:  CRI&P 655
Description:  Rock Island 655 heads out with train #5, the Quad Cities Rocket. Date of photo approximate.
Photo Date:  9/1/1978  Upload Date: 9/30/2009 12:04:39 AM
Location:  Chicago, IL
Author:  Mike Woodruff
Categories: 
Locomotives:  CRIP 655(E8A)
Views:  569   Comments: 1
CRIP 655 Blowing Snow
Title:  CRIP 655 Blowing Snow
Description: 
Photo Date:  1/6/1979  Upload Date: 3/22/2010 8:41:17 PM
Location:  Blue Island, IL
Author:  Tom Golden
Categories: 
Locomotives:  CRIP 655(E8A)
Views:  374   Comments: 1
Never knew who was painting Rock Islands locomotives.
Title:  Never knew who was painting Rock Islands locomotives.
Description:  E9, I think.
Photo Date:  3/8/2005  Upload Date: 3/8/2005 11:45:25 AM
Location:  Topeka, KS
Author:  Photo by other.
Categories: 
Locomotives:  CRIP 655(E8A)
Views:  1196   Comments: 2
RI 655
Title:  RI 655
Description:  The Peoria Rocket arrives at Joliet on a frigid February of 77 morning
Photo Date:  4/22/2005  Upload Date: 4/23/2005 5:22:26 AM
Location:  Joliet, IL
Author:  Daniel Tracy
Categories: 
Locomotives:  CRIP 655(E8A)
Views:  1607   Comments: 1
CB&Q GM-4A 83084
Title:  CB&Q GM-4A 83084
Description:  Chicago Burlington & Quincy Railroad gondola Class GM-4A 83084 at the Eola Reclamation Plant on October 11, 1964, photo by Chuck Zeiler. The CB&Q had 590 class GM-4A gondolas (#'s 82550-83139) built in 1957 at the Havelock, Nebraska shops. This one contains the cab of Rock Island's E8 656, the lead unit on the detouring combined Corn Belt Rocket and the Golden State (Train #'s 4 and 10), which was hit by CB&Q's Train #3, mistakenly routed into the standing Rock Island train at Mongomery, Illinois on September 27, 1964. Marty Bernard's recollection of the incident is (at of the time of this post) at this address: http://railfan44.blogspot.com/2014/01/major-passenger-train-wreck-montgomery.html
Photo Date:  10/11/1964  Upload Date: 10/15/2009 12:35:47 PM
Location:  Eola, IL
Author:  Chuck Zeiler
Categories:  Yard,Wreck
Locomotives:  CRIP 656(E8A)
Views:  1436   Comments: 3
CRI&P E8 656
Title:  CRI&P E8 656
Description:  CRI&P E8 656 at Eola, Illinois on October 11, 1964, Kodachrome by Cjuck Zeiler. This is the remains of Rock Island's E8 number 656, struck at about 52 mph by CB&Q's Train Number 3 at Montgomery, Illinois on September 27, 1964. The Rock Island train (combined CRI&P Trains 4 and 10, with 656 leading) was detouring over the CB&Q as a result of a bridge problem on their tracks into Chicago, and was waiting for the CB&Q train to clear. A hand written note was attached to the indicator board in the tower at Montgomery advising the operator of an issue with the switch machine and indicator lights, but it was still possible to set up a clear indication of signals, which were (at the time) not interlocked to the switch machine itself. At the time, Montgomery Tower was mechanically-controled interlocking (via pipes) with separate levers for the signal displays. The remains of the accident were shoved into a track at CB&Q's Eola Reclamation Plant for a couple of weeks while the investigation took place.
Photo Date:  10/11/1964  Upload Date: 3/26/2012 12:25:44 PM
Location:  Eola, IL
Author:  Chuck Zeiler
Categories:  Wreck
Locomotives:  CRIP 656(E8A)
Views:  1853   Comments: 1
CRI&P E8 656
Title:  CRI&P E8 656
Description:  Chicago Rock Island & Pacific Railroad E8 656 at Eola, Illinois on October 11, 1964, Ektachrome by Chuck Zeiler. This is the remains of Rock Island's E8 number 656, built in June 1940 as E6 627 (c/n 1063) on EMD Order E305A. It was returned to EMD for wreck/rebuild to E8 656 during December 1953 (EMD Order 8028A). It was the lead locomotive on a detouring Rock Island train which was holding at Montgomery, Illinois on September 27, 1964, when CB&Q Train #3 was mistakenly routed into the standing Rock Island train, causing this unit to leap up over the lead CB&Q E7 9920A on impact at approximately 52 mph. Marty Bernard's recollections of this incident at this address: http://railfan44.blogspot.com/2014/01/major-passenger-train-wreck-montgomery.html
Photo Date:  10/11/1964  Upload Date: 10/14/2009 12:15:13 PM
Location:  Eola, IL
Author:  Chuck Zeiler
Categories:  Wreck
Locomotives:  CRIP 656(E8A)
Views:  2067   Comments: 3
ABB ex-UP E's
Title:  ABB ex-UP E's
Description: 
Photo Date:  5/1/1971  Upload Date: 2/4/2014 2:48:10 PM
Location:  Joliet, IL
Author:  Ken Carlson
Categories: 
Locomotives:  CRIP 657(E8A)
Views:  538   Comments: 1
CRIP E8A #657 - Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific
Title:  CRIP E8A #657 - Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific
Description:  Built by EMD in April of 1945 as CNW #5007B, the loco was wrecked, bought by UP and rebuilt by"EMD. Eventually sold to Rock Island. See Chuck Zeiler's picture of CRIP 657 for more detailed background. Date and location approximate. Unknown photographer of original B7W negative.
Photo Date:  6/1/1971  Upload Date: 10/23/2016 9:30:49 AM
Location:  Unknown, IL
Author:  Gary Everhart
Categories:  Roster
Locomotives:  CRIP 657(E8A)
Views:  368   Comments: 1
CRI&P E8ABBB set
Title:  CRI&P E8ABBB set
Description:  Digital image from Kim E. Piersol original 35mm Kodachrome transparency. Vermont Street.
Photo Date:  4/1/1974  Upload Date: 5/10/2006 9:49:23 PM
Location:  Blue Island, IL
Author:  Kim Piersol
Categories: 
Locomotives:  CRIP 615(E8B) CRIP 616(E8B) CRIP 618(E8B) CRIP 657(E8A)
Views:  2184   Comments: 2
CRI&P E8A #657
Title:  CRI&P E8A #657
Description:  Digital image from Kim E. Piersol original 35mm Kodachrome transparency. Vermont Street.
Photo Date:  4/1/1974  Upload Date: 5/10/2006 9:49:25 PM
Location:  Blue Island, IL
Author:  Kim Piersol
Categories: 
Locomotives:  CRIP 657(E8A) CRIP 618(E8B)
Views:  1055   Comments: 2
ABBBBA Consist!
Title:  ABBBBA Consist!
Description: 
Photo Date:  4/1/1974  Upload Date: 2/4/2014 2:47:30 PM
Location:  Joliet, IL
Author:  Ken Carlson
Categories: 
Locomotives:  CRIP 657(E8A)
Views:  381   Comments: 0
CRI&P E8ABBB Freight Action
Title:  CRI&P E8ABBB Freight Action
Description:  Digital image from Kim E. Piersol original 35mm Kodachrome transparency. Vermont Street.
Photo Date:  5/1/1974  Upload Date: 1/2/2007 8:41:39 PM
Location:  Blue Island, IL
Author:  Kim Piersol
Categories: 
Locomotives:  CRIP 657(E8A) CRIP 618(E8B) CRIP 616(E8B) CRIP 615(E8B)
Views:  1409   Comments: 4
CRI&P ABBBA Lashup
Title:  CRI&P ABBBA Lashup
Description:  Digital image from Kim E. Piersol original 35mm Kodachrome transparency. Vermont Street.
Photo Date:  10/1/1974  Upload Date: 1/2/2007 8:41:24 PM
Location:  Blue Island, IL
Author:  Kim Piersol
Categories: 
Locomotives:  CRIP 657(E8A) CRIP 615(E8B) CRIP 614(E8B) CRIP 618(E8B) CRIP 630(E6A)
Views:  2366   Comments: 3
CRI&P E8A #657
Title:  CRI&P E8A #657
Description:  Digital image from Kim E. Piersol original 35mm Kodachrome transparency. Vermont Street.
Photo Date:  10/1/1974  Upload Date: 5/11/2006 10:56:37 PM
Location:  Blue Island, IL
Author:  Kim Piersol
Categories: 
Locomotives:  CRIP 657(E8A)
Views:  541   Comments: 1
CRI&P E8A #657
Title:  CRI&P E8A #657
Description:  Digital image from Kim E. Piersol original 35mm Kodachrome transparency. Vermont Street.
Photo Date:  5/9/1975  Upload Date: 1/2/2007 8:41:32 PM
Location:  Blue Island, IL
Author:  Kim Piersol
Categories: 
Locomotives:  CRIP 657(E8A)
Views:  536   Comments: 1
CRIP 657
Title:  CRIP 657
Description:  CRIP 657
Photo Date:  7/7/1975  Upload Date: 11/23/2008 1:58:34 PM
Location:  Blue Island, IL
Author:  Tim Vermande
Categories: 
Locomotives:  CRIP 657(E8A)
Views:  594   Comments: 1
CRI&P E7A #641 & E8A #657
Title:  CRI&P E7A #641 & E8A #657
Description:  Digital image from Kim E. Piersol original 35mm Kodachrome transparency. Vermont Street.
Photo Date:  8/6/1975  Upload Date: 5/12/2006 7:52:14 PM
Location:  Blue Island, IL
Author:  Kim Piersol
Categories: 
Locomotives:  CRIP 641(E7A) CRIP 657(E8A)
Views:  740   Comments: 2
Rock Island E8 #657 (ex-UP 625) departing LaSalle Street Station in Chicago on a rush hour commuter, February 8, 1977.
Title:  Rock Island E8 #657 (ex-UP 625) departing LaSalle Street Station in Chicago on a rush hour commuter, February 8, 1977.
Description:  Rock Island E8 #657 (ex-UP 625) departing LaSalle Street Station in Chicago on a rush hour commuter, February 8, 1977.
Photo Date:  2/8/1977  Upload Date: 3/21/2018 1:09:31 PM
Location:  Chicago, IL
Author:  Steven J Brown
Categories:  Station,Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  CRIP 657(E8A)
Views:  583   Comments: 3
CRIP 657
Title:  CRIP 657
Description:  EMD E9A on a local train at La Salle Street Station in Chicago in August 1977.
Photo Date:  8/15/1977  Upload Date: 9/13/2013 7:24:18 PM
Location:  Chicago, IL
Author:  John Hepp
Categories:  Station,Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  CRIP 657(E8A)
Views:  380   Comments: 0
CRIP 657
Title:  CRIP 657
Description:  La Salle Street Station, Chicago, August 1977.
Photo Date:  8/15/1977  Upload Date: 9/13/2013 7:32:27 PM
Location:  Chicago, IL
Author:  John Hepp
Categories:  Station,Passenger
Locomotives:  CRIP 657(E8A)
Views:  345   Comments: 1
E-Units Galore at 95th Street
Title:  E-Units Galore at 95th Street
Description:  RI 657, 662, and 661
Photo Date:  6/4/1978  Upload Date: 1/19/2010 9:44:44 PM
Location:  Chicago, IL
Author:  Tom Golden
Categories:  Yard
Locomotives:  CRIP 661(E8A) CRIP 657(E8A) CRIP 662(E9A)
Views:  666   Comments: 3
CRIP 657
Title:  CRIP 657
Description:  CRIP 657
Photo Date:  8/11/1978  Upload Date: 11/12/2016 8:00:49 PM
Location:  Chicago, IL
Author:  J Fischer
Categories:  Roster
Locomotives:  CRIP 657(E8A)
Views:  450   Comments: 1
CRI&P E8 657
Title:  CRI&P E8 657
Description:  CRI&P E8 657, Blue Island, Illinois, October 1979, photo by Chuck Zeiler. The Rock Island is all but shut down, and some of the locomotives not used by the Kansas City Terminal (the directed operator of the railroad) were stored at Blue Island. Here is E8 657, built as C&NW E7A 5007B in March 1945 (c/n 1966) on EMD Order E536, wrecked on the UP September 1951 at Wyuta, Utah, purchased by the UP and sent to EMD and rebuilt into UP E8 925 on EMD Order 8012. It was sold to the Rock Island in August 1969.
Photo Date:  10/1/1979  Upload Date: 10/14/2009 5:05:17 PM
Location:  Blue Island, IL
Author:  Chuck Zeiler
Categories:  Roster
Locomotives:  CRIP 657(E8A)
Views:  1241   Comments: 2
ex-UP E units
Title:  ex-UP E units
Description: 
Photo Date:  1/1/1960  Upload Date: 5/23/2008 1:00:28 PM
Location:  Blue Island, IL
Author:  Unknown
Categories: 
Locomotives:  CRIP 658(E8A)
Views:  1147   Comments: 3
RI Red at the Rocket House
Title:  RI Red at the Rocket House
Description:  An amazingly monotone day at the Rocket House. As colorful as the Rock could be, this was certainly the exception. The one red/yellow E7B is a nice find as well.
Photo Date:  5/1/1972  Upload Date: 2/4/2014 3:13:58 PM
Location:  Chicago, IL
Author:  Ken Carlson
Categories: 
Locomotives:  CRIP 658(E8A) CRIP 610(E7B)
Views:  664   Comments: 1
Rock Island 658
Title:  Rock Island 658
Description: 
Photo Date:  8/18/1973  Upload Date: 12/16/2016 7:47:13 AM
Location:  Joliet, IL
Author:  Robert Farkas
Categories:  Signal
Locomotives:  CRIP 658(E8A)
Views:  392   Comments: 5
Rock Island Subn Train Morgan Park-111th
Title:  Rock Island Subn Train Morgan Park-111th
Description:  CRIP Suburban train WB Morgan Park 111th Eng 658-E-7B & PS Suburban Cars. E-7B IS PROBABLY THE 610.
Photo Date:  9/1/1973  Upload Date: 4/9/2011 12:36:42 PM
Location:  Chicago, IL
Author:  Stu Slaymaker
Categories:  Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  CRIP 658(E8A)
Views:  653   Comments: 3
RI 658
Title:  RI 658
Description:  approaching Joliet Union Station (Date Approximate)
Photo Date:  10/10/1973  Upload Date: 12/16/2010 2:53:10 AM
Location:  Joliet, IL
Author:  Robert Farkas
Categories:  Roster
Locomotives:  CRIP 658(E8A)
Views:  712   Comments: 4
CRI&P E8A #658
Title:  CRI&P E8A #658
Description:  Digital image from Kim E. Piersol original 35mm Kodachrome transparency. Vermont Street.
Photo Date:  5/1/1974  Upload Date: 5/9/2006 10:30:28 PM
Location:  Blue Island, IL
Author:  Kim Piersol
Categories: 
Locomotives:  CRIP 658(E8A)
Views:  451   Comments: 1
CRI&P E8A #658
Title:  CRI&P E8A #658
Description:  Digital image from Kim E. Piersol original 35mm Kodachrome transparency. Vermont Street.
Photo Date:  5/9/1975  Upload Date: 8/19/2006 7:14:10 AM
Location:  Blue Island, IL
Author:  Kim Piersol
Categories: 
Locomotives:  CRIP 658(E8A)
Views:  564   Comments: 1
CRIP 658
Title:  CRIP 658
Description:  CRIP 658
Photo Date:  7/7/1975  Upload Date: 11/23/2008 1:59:41 PM
Location:  Blue Island, IL
Author:  Tim Vermande
Categories: 
Locomotives:  CRIP 658(E8A)
Views:  469   Comments: 1
CRIP 658
Title:  CRIP 658
Description:  CRIP 658 and 630
Photo Date:  9/17/1975  Upload Date: 11/23/2008 2:00:12 PM
Location:  Chicago, IL
Author:  Tim Vermande
Categories: 
Locomotives:  CRIP 658(E8A) CRIP 630(E6A)
Views:  960   Comments: 1
RI 658
Title:  RI 658
Description:  RI 658 was added to the roster in 1969.
Photo Date:  8/25/1976  Upload Date: 3/20/2016 12:59:22 PM
Location:  Chicago, IL
Author:  Ron Hawkins
Categories:  Roster
Locomotives:  CRIP 658(E8A)
Views:  173   Comments: 0
CRI&P E8A #658
Title:  CRI&P E8A #658
Description:  Digital image from Kim E. Piersol original 35mm Kodachrome transparency. Burr Oak Yard. By the roundhouse & turntable.
Photo Date:  6/15/1977  Upload Date: 10/1/2006 6:53:15 AM
Location:  Blue Island, IL
Author:  Kim Piersol
Categories: 
Locomotives:  CRIP 658(E8A)
Views:  384   Comments: 1
CRI&P C8A #658
Title:  CRI&P C8A #658
Description:  Digital image from Kim E. Piersol original 35mm Kodachrome transparency. Vermont Street.
Photo Date:  6/15/1977  Upload Date: 9/10/2006 11:00:42 PM
Location:  Blue Island, IL
Author:  Kim Piersol
Categories: 
Locomotives:  CRIP 658(E8A)
Views:  730   Comments: 2
CRIP 658
Title:  CRIP 658
Description:  CRIP 658
Photo Date:  12/31/1979  Upload Date: 3/24/2015 11:44:04 PM
Location:  Blue Island, IL
Author:  J Fischer
Categories:  Roster,Yard
Locomotives:  CRIP 658(E8A)
Views:  408   Comments: 2
RI 659
Title:  RI 659
Description:  Scanned from a print I bought years ago. Jim Wozniczka Railroad Photos Oak Forest, Illinois printed on the back.
Photo Date:  8/1/1969  Upload Date: 1/3/2022 11:37:16 AM
Location:  Blue Island, IL
Author:  Rich Varner
Categories:  Roster
Locomotives:  CRIP 659(E8A)
Views:  230   Comments: 0
Ex Union Pacific E8s from 12th St. Bridge
Title:  Ex Union Pacific E8s from 12th St. Bridge
Description: 
Photo Date:  3/30/1971  Upload Date: 2/20/2007 11:03:07 PM
Location:  Chicago, IL
Author:  Marty Bernard
Categories: 
Locomotives:  CRIP 659(E8A) CRIP 615(E8B) CRIP 616(E8B)
Views:  1478   Comments: 1
RI 659
Title:  RI 659
Description: 
Photo Date:  4/20/1973  Upload Date: 4/11/2014 7:29:32 PM
Location:  East Moline, IL
Author:  Robert Farkas
Categories:  Roster
Locomotives:  CRIP 659(E8A)
Views:  509   Comments: 3


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