Nostalgia & History > Maroon Monday: subversion amongst us

Once it became common knowledge that the Rock Island’s days were more or less numbered I think a lot of us started looking at foreign power on the Rock’s main lines in a little bit different light. Of course, CRI&P and SP/SSW power had been ‘joined at the hip’ for years hauling both passenger & freight traffic together. But seeing Espee & Cotton Belt power in our neck-o-the-woods (Armourdale, Topeka, Herington & Wichita, etc) in the months prior to the bitter end became different. It was getting harder & harder to just write off as normal when we all knew what was coming.

1. CRI&P 386 & SP 8744 sit on adjacent tracks at the roundhouse in Herington, KS on November 9, 1978. In just 16 months the Rock Island will be lost to history…

Thanks for looking back!
Lance Garrels
santafe199



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Her 35th funeral anniversary is fast approaching...thanks for the great photos!

Thanks again Lance for your continued support of this theme for Monday.
The Rock was my training ground for working on the UP.

Bob Krieger
Cheyenne, WY

Very nice!

Actually, it should read submersion... There is a U-Boat among us. These units had interesting horn that went "ahooooga." Crossings made for some interesting sounds.

"A mind is a terrible thing to let it roam free."

Yukon Yeti



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YukonYeti Wrote: > "A mind is a terrible thing to let it roam free."

(power chuckling!) as in: '...it may not come back??'

;^)

santafe199 Wrote:
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> YukonYeti Wrote: > "A mind is a terrible thing to
> let it roam free."
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> (power chuckling!) as in: '...it may not come
> back??'
>
> ;^)


Dan Quayle "A mind is a terrible thing to lose"

Most old railroaders go by "A waist is a terrible thing to mind." Today I saw a man in a BNSF Hazmat vest that made me look tiny!

Fred in Wichita

199, Thank you for your contribution. AA

Stanford White
Carmel Valley, CA