Rock Island's bicentennial E8 652 debutes on the 20th Century Railroad Club's Railfair '76 special from Chicago to Bureau, shown here departing Chicago.

a westbound RI grain train comes around the connector at Sheffield Interlocking on the east side of Kansas City

Rock Island 652 specially painted for the bicentennial slows for a station stop at the Geneseo depot on the way to Chicago from Rock Island.

Look! There just ahead!! It's a bird, it's a train - it's Aerotrain! Built by GM to "save the industry" in 1955, the train was lightweight and streamlined utilizing a set of modified GM Truck &... (more)

westbound Rock Island train departing Quad Cities

power at Rock Islands El Reno yard includeing not yet lettered exUP F unit

A Rock Island train was departing the Quad Cities westbound

RI 240 sitting outside the Rock Island shops in Silvis, IL

After making a flag stop at Bureau, the Quad City Rocket departs Bureau and continues its journey to LaSalle Street Station in Chicago.

Two Rock Island GP7 units are idle on a hot July 4th holiday in Little Rock.

A typical midwestern scene -- Rock Island mail train No. 39 with a single coach on the rear leaves Herington, Kansas on May 31, 1965 to continue its run to Tucumcari, N.M. to be handed over to the... (more)

Rock Island's passenger Train 39, formerly called the "Imperial," derailed at Valencia, Ks., 11 miles west of Topeka, and two steam-powered derricks were slowly clearing the double-track mainline ... (more)

On a drizzly March day, a 'new blue' geep and a pair of ragged GEs wait with their train for a new crew. Probably a Roger Bee photo.