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RI NB Train 99 at Cedar Rapids Iowa March 22, 1975. W.S. Kuba photo. Scanned from the Iowa Chapter NRHS Collection and used with permission.

MILW86A 

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I like it!!  Keep that Rock Island stuff coming!!

MILW86A Wrote:
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> RI NB Train 99 at Cedar Rapids Iowa March 22,
> 1975. W.S. Kuba photo. Scanned from the Iowa
> Chapter NRHS Collection and used with permission.

Thanks for posting that shot, always enjoy seeing the RI, especially in Iowa.  One comment on the train ID though - 99 was a 1960s-era train ID on that line and it was changed during the 1972 reconfiguration of train IDs/schedules.  After 1972, the westbound/"northbound" trains in CR were 61 (Chicago-Twin Cities) and 69 (Silvis-CR).

Take care,

Mark

mamfahr Wrote:
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> MILW86A Wrote:
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> > RI NB Train 99 at Cedar Rapids Iowa March 22,
> > 1975. W.S. Kuba photo. Scanned from the Iowa
> > Chapter NRHS Collection and used with
> permission.
>
> Thanks for posting that shot, always enjoy seeing
> the RI, especially in Iowa.  One comment on the
> train ID though - 99 was a 1960s-era train ID on
> that line and it was changed during the 1972
> reconfiguration of train IDs/schedules.  After
> 1972, the westbound/"northbound" trains in CR were
> 61 (Chicago-Twin Cities) and 69 (Silvis-CR).
>
> Take care,
>
> Mark

Thanks for this info, Mark, much appreciated.  Many of the fans in this
area used the old numbers long after the Rock had stopped.  So when
I used the new ones that I was familiar with, they would give me funny
looks.  By the time I got to the Rock, 69 and it's opposite number, 68?, were 
gone.  

Nick Tharalson,
Marion, IA