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[aryburn-trains]

The Des Moines Rocket with a deadheading heavyweight diner behind the unique DL-103b #624 shot by Tom Harley between 16th Street interlocking and Englewood Union Station on the south side of Chicago in fall of 1946.

[collinthenychudson]

I haven’t drawn a 4-8-4 since I drew N&W 611 back in September 2025, so here is my drawing of the Rock Island R-67, also my first drawing of 2026.

Reference Image: https://www.facebook.com/groups/TheRockIsland/posts/24290295597339828/

Drawing: C) Me

[20th-century-railroading]

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Westbound freight on the former Cotton Belt at Addison, Texas, behind a pair of SP B30-7s, and a Rock Island slug set, on October 20, 1979.

[railwayhistorical]

A Mighty Fine Line

Here’s a westbound Rock Island freight train crossing over the diamonds at Joliet, Illinois. The train is clattering over both the Santa Fe as well as the Gulf, Mobile & Ohio here. The lead unit seen here is a General Electric U28B built for the road in 1966.

One image by Richard Koenig; taken September 20th 1975.

[marmarinou]

“The longest day of 1970, and shortly after I finished high school, a Rock Island westbound freight passes U.D. Tower and crosses the GM&O/ATSF diamonds behind two F7 (119-107).”

Joliet, Illinois

June 21,1970

Photo by Paul Enenbach

(via Joliet, Illinois, 21JUN'70 | The longest day of 1970, and sh… | Flickr)

[aryburn-kc]

KANSAS CITY KS Sept 29 1979 -- Rock Island SW! 538 has seen better days much like its parent road. Complete shutdown of the Rock was only months away as this little switcher awaits its fate at Armourdale Yard.

[thefakeray]

Rock Island F9M 4168 by Chuck Zeiler Via Flickr: Rock Island F9M 4168, date, location, and photographer unknown, Chuck Zeiler collection. This locomotive was built in January 1948 as UP F3 1412A ( c/n 4617 ) on EMD Order E818A. It was renumbered to 1412, later renumbered to 1519. During September 1958 it was rebuilt by EMD to F9M 539, retaining most of its F3 carbody features. During February 1972, this unit and 18 other rebuilt F3A's were sold to the Rock Island, and the RI send a like number of their units to EMD for trade-in credit on UP's order of SD40-2's. The Rock also acquired 12 F9M B-units in a like sale/trade at the same time. This particular unit sports a UP-made snowplow for duties in the Pacific Northwest. Number 4168 was traded to EMD in mid-1976.

[aryburn-trains]

Des Moines Rocket Streamliner at Rock Island, IL. August 1958