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» July 27, 1998

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Built by General Motors Electro-Motive Division in October 1941, Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific Railroad E6A 630 was one of five E6As purchased by the railroad. The E6s earned their keep pulling the railroad’s passenger trains, such as the Rocky Mountain Rocket and _ for decades. One was wrecked and rebuilt into an E8A in 1953, another was retired in 1966 and two more were retired in 1969. But the 630 escaped the scrapper’s torch and was donated to the Kansas City Railway Museum (cut-and-paste this address: https://en-academic.com/dic.nsf/enwiki/10351345) in May 1979. It then ended up on the Midland Railway, in Baldwin City, Kansas. RI 630 has since been sold and will become part of a future museum in Manly, Iowa, along with Rock Island E8A 652. Both units have been cosmetically restored but currently are under a mechanical restoration at Mid-America Car in Kansas City, MO as of March 2017. (Kansas City, Missouri – July 27, 1998)

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