Eastbound CRIP train at Pullman Jct south side of Chicago

Southbound train near Kingfisher

Inbound train arriving El Reno

A freight with a trio of E's about to depart the yard at Silvis, IL

Sitting on a BNSF flatcar on the east side of the former Rock Island shop, the Eldon (IA) Depot Museum's re-incarnated Rock Island GP7 1275 received some last minute work to lower the exhaust stac... (more)

Rock Island GP40 384 along with a GP7 and U25B idle between assignments at their Twin Cities facility located at Inver Grove south of St. Paul. The yellow nose paint was an influence of Union Paci... (more)

Two 150-ton overhead cranes work together at the former Rock Island shop to load a former Santa Fe GP7 wearing Rock Island paint onto a BNSF flatcar. The re-incarnated Rock Island 1275 is going to... (more)

Sitting on a BNSF flatcar on the east side of the former Rock Island shop, the Eldon (IA) Depot Museum's re-incarnated Rock Island GP7 1275 is receiving some last minute work to lower the exhaust ... (more)

Two 150-ton overhead cranes work together at the former Rock Island shop to load a former Santa Fe GP7 wearing Rock Island paint onto a BNSF flatcar. The re-incarnated Rock Island 1275 is going t... (more)

Eastbound Rock Island train Brinkely

National Railway Equipment in Silvis, IL completed the new Rock Island 1275 last week. Iowa Interstate's Rock Island heritage was at NRE for wheel work and the pair were put together for a few ph... (more)

A westbound freight led by a quartet of GE U-boats gets ready to thump across Burlington Northern's Galesburg to Savanna mainline. Kodachrome slide processed in September 1974.

Rock Island U33B 286 awaits a trip through the shop at Silvis. Kodachrome slide processed in September 1974.

Painted for the bicentennial, Rock Island E8 652 leads the Peoria Rocket west out of Chicago. Kodachrome slide processed in January 1977.

Freshly rebuilt and repainted GP7R 4549 leads a westbound freight down 5th Street in Davenport. Kodachrome slide processed in April 1977.