Rock Island GE U25B 241, with UP GP30 855 and UP SD24u 3399 at Blue Island, Illinois August 28, 1975. Unknown photographer listed on slide, from my collection.

Rock Island GP40 No.381, leads SP GP35 6561, and RI U25B 219 at Trenton, Missouri. Photo taken from my slide collection, no photographer listed on slide.

Rock commuter train on "Suburban" line approaching Blue Island.

During the Fourth of July weekend, Southern 4501 was used to haul passengers on an excursion around Chicago and Indiana known as the Independence Limited. Prior to one of its runs, the steam loco... (more)

Rock Island 4161 is an F9AM rebuilt from Union Pacific F3A no. 1440A for UP. The unit was built in March 1948 and rebuilt in January 1959. It was one of several Fs acquired by financially strapped... (more)

A Rock Island SW1200RS (flexicoil trucks) handles switching chores at Inver Grove, MN while a caboose from a Soo Line transfer job waits to depart back to Shoreham Yard in northeast Minneapolis (C... (more)

The Rock GE U33B 297. A Mike Bledsoe Photo.

Set of power coming from Blue Island passing through Pullman Jct heading to RI South Chicago *corrected* yard to take a freight train west.

One year old RI 4583, Rock Island owned 18 GE 3000hp U30C's numbered 4582-4599.

The Rock Island crossing the Gulf, Mobile & Ohio and Santa Fe tracks at Joliet, Illinois with an eastbound freight lead by EMD FTA 88, FTB 88A, F7B 120B and BL2 526 July 8, 1965. Photo taken fro... (more)

Rock Island freight with in the lead SD40-2 4795, the 2nd unit Southern Pacific GE U33C 8630 and a Rock Island F9Am 4168 ex UP 537 still in yellow near Saginaw, Texas February 1974.

Westbound Rock Island commuter train arriving Joliet

Looking like a model railroader's kitbashing project, Rock Island GP40 4710 sits in the deadline in North Little Rock, Arkansas, in May 1985. The deadline is made up of former Rock Island and Wes... (more)

Eastbound Rock Island intermodal train Joliet Union Station

Eastbound Rock Island Joliet Union Station