Colorful motive power consist!
At the south end of the station
A real oddball, Rock Island EMD AB6 is accelerating out of Chicago's La Salle Street Station with a bi-level commuter train.
Rock Island GE U33B 298 leads a mixed bag of power on an eastbound freight during a New Years Eve 1978 blizzard.
Rock Island 268 leads a U28B/GP40/GP7/GP38-2 lashup near the Silvis Shop less than a month before shutdown.
Less than one month before the end, Rock Island SW1500 947 shoves two classic fifty-footers over the Silvis hump.
The "David P. Morgan" leads two rebuilt GP7's on the Blue Island service tracks in October 1976.
A nice E8. E7B, E7A set heads up the westbound GOLDEN STATE about to stop at Joliet. Someone was busy with the red paint in Chicago.
A real hot box. I had never seen one before and I don't recall whether the coach was used again back to Chicago that day.
A Rock Island EMD F2 is paired with leased Great Northern FT units 258 A&B on a westbound freight for a pleasing color combination.
Rock Island RS-3 486 departs Joliet with three cars for Chicago on a flawless, sunny June day.
An eight car Rock Island commuter train is about to stop at Englewood station.
An E8, E7B and FP7A are teamed up on the Rock Island / Southern Pacific GOLDEN STATE departing LaSalle St. station.
Eastbound Rock Island freight on the Tucumcari Line, near Fowler, Kansas. Verne Brummel (photographer) / Dave Cramer (photo editing). Visit our websites at - Railroad: Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific (Rock Island)Locomotive: EMD GP38-2Location: Fowler (nearby), Kansas, USALocomotive #: CRIP 4326Train ID: UnknownPhoto Date: August 02, 1978
