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programs attacked the maintenance backlog. This coincided with a massive campaign beginning in May 1975 to rebrand the railroad as simply “The Rock”, with modern eye-catching livery. However, the FRA-backed loans that Ingram sought were thwarted by the lobbying efforts of competing railroads, which saw a healthy Rock Island as a threat to their own survival. By 1978, main line track improved in quality. For example, at the end of that summer, the
Illinois Division had no slow orders, and freight velocity was rising. The sale of the Golden State Route to the Southern Pacific had been agreed to. The Rock Island slowly inched towards a financial break-even point, despite the economic malaise that plagued the late 1970s.
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Pacific ultimately ended up owning and operating more of the Rock Island than it would have acquired in its attempted 1964 merger. The one line it currently does not own (or operate regularly, other than detours) is the Chicago-to-Omaha main
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strikebreaking situation, the unions appealed to the FRA and ICC for relief. Despite the fact that Rock Island management had been able to move 80% of pre-strike tonnage, at the behest of the Carter
Administration, the ICC declared a transportation emergency, finding that the Rock Island would not be
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Farrington, from 1948 to 1955. As the aura from those days waned in the late 1950s, the Rock Island found itself faced with flat traffic, revenues, and increasing costs. Despite this, the property was still in decent shape, making the Rock
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Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railroad Company. In 1877 Ransom Reed Cable became a director and in 1883 replaced Hugh Riddle as president, retiring as Chairman of the Board in 1902. The railroad expanded through construction and
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The Rock Island offered to open the books to show the precarious financial condition of the road in an effort to get the BRAC in line with the other unions that had already signed agreements. Fred J. Kroll, president of the BRAC, declined the offer to audit the books of the Rock Island. Kroll pulled
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With its debts on hold, Rock Island charted a new course as a grain funnel from the
Midwest to the port of Galveston, Texas. The Ingram administration estimated that the Rock Island could be rebuilt and re-equipped at a cost of $ 100 million and sought financing for the plan. Grain shuttles that had
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Pacific viewed the expense of bringing it back to viable operating
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seemingly so close, the Rock Island cut expenses to conserve cash. Expenditures on track maintenance were cut, passenger service was reduced as fast as the ICC would allow, and locomotives received only basic maintenance to keep them running. The Rock Island began to take on a ramshackle appearance
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Illinois Division as the track quality declined from 1971 through 1977. The transit times, once a speedy 2½ hours in the 1950s, had lengthened to a 4½ hour run by 1975. The State of Illinois continued to subsidize the service to keep it running. The track
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Directed Service Order enabled one-time suitors, via KCT management, to basically test operate portions of the Rock Island that had once interested them. On January 24, 1980, Judge McGarr elected to not review the Rock Island's final plan of reorganization. He simply initiated the shutdown and
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Facing the loss of the UP's traffic at the Omaha gateway, virtually every railroad directly and indirectly affected by the potential UP/Rock Island merger immediately filed protests to block it. With these filings began the longest and most complicated merger case in
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issued a back-to-work order that BRAC dismissed. Still more traffic flowed on the strikebound Rock Island. According to Ingram, "by the end of the sixth week, the Rock Island was handling about 30 percent of its prestrike tonnage with 5 percent of the prestrike onboard train operating personnel.
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was scheduled to closely match the Santa Fe's transit time end-to-end and was to have its own dedicated trainsets, one purchased by the Rock Island, the other by Southern Pacific. As the Rock Island's set of streamlined passenger cars was being finished, the Southern Pacific abruptly withdrew its
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After 10 years of hearings and tens of thousands of pages of testimony and exhibits produced, Klitenic, now an administrative law judge, approved the Rock Island-Union Pacific merger as part of a larger plan for rail service throughout the West. Under Klitenic's proposal, almost all of the Rock
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both of which now operated entirely within the borders of Illinois. However, the Rock Island opted against joining Amtrak, in part because the government assessed the Amtrak entrance fee based upon passenger miles operated in 1970. After concluding that the cost of joining would be greater than
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line C&NW, as well as the granger turned transcon Milwaukee Road. Both of these never advanced much beyond the data gathering and initial study phases. In 1964, its last profitable year, the Rock Island agreed to pursue a merger plan with the UP, which would form one large "super" railroad
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Kansas City Terminal began the process of embargoing in-bound shipments in late February, and the final train battled three days of snow drifts to arrive in Denver on March 31, 1980. Cars and locomotives were gathered in 'ghost trains' that appeared on otherwise defunct Rock Island lines and
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From the vantage point of the 1974 railroad industry, Klitenic's plan was viewed as an unmanageable and far too radical solution to both the granger railroad issue and the larger issue of the future of rail freight transportation in general. The visionary plan would not be realized until the
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and derailments occurred with increasing frequency. In an effort to prop up its future merger mate, UP asked the Rock Island to forsake the Denver gateway in favor of increased interchange at Omaha. Incredibly, the Rock Island refused this, and the UP routed more Omaha traffic over the
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building, with a smaller commuter station located one block south of the old station. The RTA gradually rebuilt the track and added more new equipment to the service, leaving the property in better shape than it was in the Rock Island's heyday, albeit with less track. The
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history. Faced with failing granger railroads and large Class I railroads seeking to expand, ICC Hearing Examiner Nathan Klitenic, presiding over the case, sought to balance the opposing forces and completely restructure the railroads west of the Mississippi River.
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able to move the 1979 grain harvest to market. This decision came despite the railroad's movement of more grain out of Iowa in the week immediately preceding the order than during any week in its history. The ICC issued a Directed Service Order authorizing the
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condition to be severely prohibitive. Additionally, the ICC attached conditions for both labor and operating concessions that the UP deemed too excessive for their tastes. These factors led the Union Pacific to walk away from the deal later in 1974.
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program of 1978 helped with main-line timekeeping, although the Rock Island's management decreed that the two trains were not to delay freight traffic on the route. By this time, both once-proud trains were down to just two coaches, powered by
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was downgraded due to nonrail competition, the route traveled by the train was gradually shortened from 1966 onward. Its western terminus was cut back first to Omaha, then to Council Bluffs. After briefly running without a name, it was renamed
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locomotives entering their second decade of service. With the trains frequently running with as many paying passengers as coaches in the train, Illinois withdrew its subsidy, and the two trains made their final runs on December 31, 1978.
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was ultimately proven correct, as both he and other bondholders who had purchased Rock Island debt for cents on the dollar during the low ebb in prices did especially well. The line from the end of commuter service in Blue Island to
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to provide heat, air conditioning, and lighting for the new cars. In 1970, another order, this time for Pullman-built bilevel cars arrived to further supplement the fleet. To provide the power for these cars, several former
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stainless-steel, bilevel cars in 1961, the Rock Island elected to add to a subsequent order and took delivery of its first bilevel equipment in 1964. Power for these new cars was provided by orphaned passenger units: three
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at Omaha, all seeking a slice of the flood of western traffic that UP interchanged there. Under the ICC revenue rules in place at the time, the Rock Island sought traffic from Omaha, yet preferred to keep the long haul to
1101:, reducing the need for the tight web of track that crisscrossed the plains states such as Iowa. As for available overhead traffic, in 1958, no less than six Class I carriers were serving as eastern connections for the
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remaining in the passenger business, the railroad decided to "perform a public service for the state of Illinois" and continue intercity passenger operations. To help manage the service, the Rock Island hired
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his BRAC clerks off the job in August, 1979. Picket lines went up at every terminal on the Rock Island's system and the operating brotherhoods honored the picket lines. The Rock Island ground to a halt.
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ran into the Rock Island's Mississippi River Bridge. The steamboat was overcome by a fire, which also destroyed a span of the bridge. This accident caused a series of court cases. In one of the cases,
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In 2017, thirty-seven years after the Rock Island folded, a new startup company that owns the rights to the Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific name began operating in the southern United States. The
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units arrived in late 1977 and, in summer, 1978, briefly could be seen hauling Capone cars. The Rock Island's commuter F and E units were relegated to freight service or the scrapyard.
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with the slab roof of the train shed literally falling apart, requiring its removal. By this time, the Rock Island could not afford to replace the clearly worn-out equipment.
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The Ingram management team operated as much of the Rock Island as they could. Trains slowly began to move, with more traffic being hauled every week of the strike. President
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liquidation of the Rock Island, which was what Henry Crown had advocated for from the very beginning. Not wanting to preside over an asset sale, Rock Island president
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Other trains operated by the Rock Island as part of its Rocket fleet included the
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appointed receiver trustee during bankruptcy, April 20, 1915 - June 21, 1917.
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acquired the line between the Twin Cities and Kansas City. The line between
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purchase. The Rock Island's cars were delivered and found their way into the
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appointed receiver trustee during bankruptcy, March 17, 1975 - June 1, 1984.
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Oklahoma Digital Maps: Digital Collections of Oklahoma and Indian Territory
2144:"RailNews Review 2022: Silvis Becomes Rail Preservation's 'Shop of Dreams'"
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From the 1920s on, the suburban services were operated using Pacific-type
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United Press International, "Rock Island Railroad Files For Bankruptcy",
1841:"Rise and Decline of the Rock Island Passenger Train in the 20Th Century"
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2092:"Chugging to Silvis: former building to become rail preservation museum"
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In Iowa, the C&RI's incorporators created (on February 5, 1853) the
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resigned, and Gibbons took over as president of the bankrupt railroad.
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1895:"A Mighty Good Road: The Decline and Fall of the Rock Island Railroad"
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https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1884/02/26/113297353.pdf
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In 1974, the road adopted a new color scheme and rebranded itself as "
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The Rock Island Line’s logo as “The Rock”, used from May 1975 to 1980.
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which had a branch operating through the northwestern edge of Mexico.
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A 1907 advertisement for travel between Chicago and the Pacific Coast
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The railroad retired its last steam locomotive from service in 1953.
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Hannah, Leslie; Faculty of Economics, University of Tokyo (2006).
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route would be sold to the Southern Pacific. The Memphis-Amarillo
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2175:"The Rock founders faced tragedy and travail before triumphing"
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replaced Frank O. Lowden as receiver trustee on April 19, 1943.
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2077:"Silvis shop | Railroading Heritage of Midwest America"
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service in the Chicago area. The primary route ran from
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2053:. Rock Island Technical Society. 1996. Archived from
853:(Memphis—Little Rock—Oklahoma City—Amarillo) and the
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60:. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed.
2518:The Rock Island Line (Railroads Past and Present)
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1460:Presidents of the Rock Island Railroad included:
1445:new Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railroad LLC
847:(Minneapolis—St. Paul—Burlington—St. Louis), the
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1439:Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railroad (2017)
25:Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railroad (2017)
2602:Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific Railroad LLC
1811:https://chicagology.com/goldenage/goldenage170/
2264:. University of Minnesota Press. p. 101.
1624:, its subsidiary extending to Galveston, Texas
732:. The local run on this line was known as the
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4415:Former Class I railroads in the United States
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1310:, painted in Rock Island livery as a memorial
4495:Standard gauge railways in the United States
2457:. St. Paul, MN: MBI Publishing. p. 76.
2345:: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (
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938:Baltimore and Ohio Chicago Terminal Railroad
894:as managing director of passenger services.
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1380:. In 1988, the company was acquired by the
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888:National Association of Railroad Passengers
69:"Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railroad"
4490:Railroads in the Chicago metropolitan area
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1825:. Rand McNally & Co. 1973. p. 53.
1742:. New York City: Touchstone. p. 157.
1682:"Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railway"
1417:The Rock Island Line Workshop, located in
670:#630 at Midland Railway, Baldwin City, KS.
147:
4540:American companies disestablished in 1880
4405:Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railroad
2654:Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railroad
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2011:
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1823:Handy Railroad Atlas of the United States
1452:. The company rosters eight locomotives.
1248:Brotherhood of Railway and Airline Clerks
1175:The Rock Island's last attempt to survive
783:until its last run on February 21, 1968.
362:Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railroad
133:Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railroad
120:Learn how and when to remove this message
4525:1866 establishments in the United States
4520:Railway companies disestablished in 1980
4510:Railway companies disestablished in 1880
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2015:Rock Island Requiem: Rock Island Requiem
1467:, November 27, 1850 - December 22, 1851.
1410:" and executive produced Jay Sommers's "
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370:Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railway
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1423:Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad
786:The Rock Island also competed with the
708:, the Rock Island jointly operated the
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4535:American companies established in 1866
4530:American companies established in 1947
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4515:Railway companies established in 1947
4505:Railway companies established in 1866
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1949:
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1763:Roseman, Curtis (February 22, 2006).
1622:Chicago, Rock Island and Gulf Railway
1515:, December 31, 1901 - March 26, 1904.
1344:was sold in pieces. The line between
749:, once part of the Rock Island system
305:Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway
249:October 10, 1852–March 31, 1980
2090:Kinnicutt, Grace (January 9, 2023).
1839:C., Nelson, Paul (January 1, 1971).
1834:
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1473:, December 22, 1851 - December 1854.
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452:. Construction continued on through
58:adding citations to reliable sources
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2262:Minneapolis and the Age of Railways
2142:Franz, Justin (December 29, 2022).
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1354:Oklahoma, Kansas and Texas Railroad
1240:Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers
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2002: (7th Cir. Oct. 7, 1981).
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1527:, December 1909 - April 20, 1915.
1521:, March 26, 1904 - December 1909.
1246:had accepted new agreements. The
1066:Chicago and North Western Railway
1055:Regional Transportation Authority
626:, to Santa Rosa via Kansas City;
535:The Rock Island stretched across
465:Mississippi and Missouri Railroad
21:Rock Island Line (disambiguation)
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1509:, June 1898 - December 31, 1901.
1497:, April 14, 1877 - June 6, 1883.
1085:Rock Island's survival challenge
1002:. The engines were rebuilt with
835:(Chicago-Des Moines-Omaha), the
831:(Chicago—Des Moines—Omaha), the
486:The former Rock Island Depot at
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16:Defunct American Class I railway
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1539:, June 22, 1917 - June 7, 1933.
1491:, August 1866 - April 14, 1877.
1395:The company inspired the song "
1306:engine 678 (since scrapped) at
1118:for haulage to the West Coast.
599:. Southernmost reaches were to
467:Company (M&M), to run from
405:Burlington-Rock Island Railroad
153:The Rock Island System in 1965.
45:needs additional citations for
4475:Defunct South Dakota railroads
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1738:Donald, David Herbert (1999).
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1213:Federal Railway Administration
917:The Rock Island also operated
788:Chicago, Burlington and Quincy
753:The 1948 modernization of the
301:Missouri–Kansas–Texas Railroad
1:
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1112:Denver and Rio Grande Western
768:s fleet soon after delivery.
431:Rock Island locomotive #627,
4465:Defunct New Mexico railroads
2587:Rock Island System Map, 1885
2545:Rock Island System map, 1966
2233:Wargin, Tom (June 2, 1999).
1719:. Rock Island Railroad. 1970
1479:, December 1854 - June 1863.
1269:Kansas City Terminal Railway
967:units added later. In 1949,
881:and the Chicago-Rock Island
857:(a local counterpart to the
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293:Burlington Northern Railroad
7:
4480:Defunct Tennessee railroads
4450:Defunct Minnesota railroads
4445:Defunct Louisiana railroads
2826:Chicago-Hot Springs Limited
2582:The Rock Island In Arkansas
2012:Schneider, Gregory (2013).
1686:digital.library.okstate.edu
1599:
1503:, June 6, 1883 - June 1898.
1374:Chicago Pacific Corporation
1244:United Transportation Union
1195:." #4340 was among several
646:Intercity passenger service
391:. It was also known as the
269:Chicago Pacific Corporation
23:. For the new company, see
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4460:Defunct Nebraska railroads
4455:Defunct Missouri railroads
4430:Defunct Illinois railroads
4425:Defunct Colorado railroads
4420:Defunct Arkansas railroads
2455:Classic American Railroads
2260:Hofsommer, Don L. (2005).
2179:The Railroad Comes to Town
1485:, June 1863 - August 1866.
1450:Mississippi Delta Railroad
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1427:National Railway Equipment
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591:. To the west, it reached
522:Green Mountain train wreck
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1330:Chicago and North Western
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1201:Missouri Pacific Railroad
1157:Chicago and North Western
716:Southern Pacific Railroad
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297:Southern Pacific Railroad
285:Chicago and North Western
281:Missouri Pacific Railroad
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2847:Des Moines-Omaha Limited
2616:Wheels of Progress, 1950
2522:Indiana University Press
2492:10.1086/scr.1982.3109552
2480:The Supreme Court Review
2368:(13): 16. July 26, 1976.
1995:Gibbons v. United States
1989: (Sept. 26, 1979).,
1858:10.17077/0003-4827.11117
1640:Iowa Interstate Railroad
1531:Jacob McGavock Dickinson
1390:Iowa Interstate Railroad
1366:Iowa Interstate Railroad
907:Chicago commuter service
833:Des Moines-Omaha Limited
704:In competition with the
277:Iowa Interstate Railroad
19:For related topics, see
4485:Defunct Texas railroads
1408:The Beverly Hillbillies
520:On March 21, 1910, the
494:In 1857, the steamboat
490:, now a railroad museum
4435:Defunct Iowa railroads
2900:Rocky Mountain Limited
2453:Schafer, Mike (1996).
1987:360 I.C.C. 289
1956:Transportation Journal
1926:347 I.C.C. 556
1650:LaSalle Street Station
1589:, 1974 - January 1980.
1471:John Bloomfield Jervis
1360:, Bureau Junction and
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1070:Chicago Stock Exchange
1044:LaSalle Street Station
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597:Santa Rosa, New Mexico
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4500:Rock Island, Illinois
2893:Mid-Continent Special
2886:Iowa-Nebraska Limited
2748:Rocky Mountain Rocket
2516:Marvel, Bill (2013),
2000:660 F.2d 1227
1939:Playground Daily News
1928: (Oct. 29, 1974).
1513:William Bateman Leeds
1304:Iowa Northern Railway
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2870:Golden State Limited
2651:Named trains of the
2577:The Rock Island Line
1716:Yard Clerical Manual
1519:Benjamin L. Winchell
1364:was acquired by the
1075:Rock Island District
913:Rock Island District
711:Golden State Limited
54:improve this article
2923:Twin Cities Express
2739:Rock Island Rockets
2298:. February 26, 1884
2123:. December 28, 2022
2096:The Quad-City Times
1645:Joseph E. Sheffield
1575:Jervis Langdon, Jr.
1557:John Dow Farrington
1356:. The line between
1230:Creditors, such as
883:Quad Cities Rocket,
621:St. Louis, Missouri
368:, sometimes called
289:Metra Commuter Rail
179:CRI&P, RI, ROCK
134:
2916:Short Line Express
2908:Sam Houston Zephyr
2794:Other named trains
2730:Quad Cities Rocket
2715:Kansas City Rocket
2360:"Lines on Labor".
1845:The Annals of Iowa
1593:William M. Gibbons
1547:Frank Orren Lowden
1404:Petticoat Junction
1324:was leased to the
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1217:William M. Gibbons
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2185:on April 17, 2004
2057:on March 17, 2008
2033:978-0-7006-2030-2
2024:10.1353/book35876
1899:Arkansas Business
1543:Joseph B. Fleming
1501:Ransom Reed Cable
1483:Charles W. Durant
1350:Fort Worth, Texas
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1569:R. Ellis Johnson
1563:Downing B. Jenks
1456:Company officers
1419:Silvis, Illinois
1397:Rock Island Line
1358:Peoria, Illinois
1352:was sold to the
1308:Coralville, Iowa
1035:Joliet, Illinois
838:Twin Star Rocket
829:Corn Belt Rocket
806:Colorado Springs
632:Galveston, Texas
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