The original Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railroad was an American Class I railroad. It was also known as the Rock Island Line, or, in its final years, The Rock.
Rock Island locomotive #627, circa 1910
Fractional Share of the Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific Railway Company, issued June 30, 1898
The former Rock Island Depot at Chillicothe, Illinois, now a railroad museum
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The Iowa Interstate Railroad is a Class II regional railroad operating in the central United States. The railroad is owned by Railroad Development Corporation of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
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…Texas was sold to the Oklahoma, Kansas and Texas Railroad. The line between Peoria, Illinois, Bureau Junction and Omaha, Nebraska was acquired by the Iowa Interstate Railroad. Gibbons was released from the Rock Island on June 1, 1984, after its estate expired. With all assets sold and all debt retired, the Rock Island found…
Iowa City Depot, once part of the Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific Railroad, now on IAIS line.
Two trains meet near Altoona, Iowa. At left, train 707 is led by an EMD GP38-2. At right, train 710 is also led by a GP38-2.
Slug #651 coupled to GP38-2 #721
IAIS #708 crossing the Government Bridge at the Mississippi River, southbound from Davenport, Iowa into Rock Island, Illinois