Nostalgia & History > Maroon Monday: Rock Isla Is [the best!]

Ah yes… the good old Rock Island and its infinite variety of misplaced engine hood doors! Here’s a version that may or may not have already been covered here on TO. If it has, what the heck. Here’s a Jim Watson shot with another look back at everybody’s pet favorite railroad (R.I.P.!) and its engine hood antics. Enjoy!

1. CRI&P (“Rock Isla Is”) 277 sits blissfully unaware of bad grammar in Council Bluffs, IA on February 27, 1975.
(photo by James W. Watson)

Thanks for reading it again!
Lance Garrels
santafe199

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Interesting shot. Near as I can tell those units are parked in the area that the car rebuilder is now located at.

Nope, the tracks are still there. The buildings are gone. The tracks are stub-ended. This is looking north toward the Alter scrapper/Griffith Pipe complex.

rsanchez Wrote:
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> Interesting shot. Near as I can tell those units
> are parked in the area that the car rebuilder is
> now located at.