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Nostalgia & History > Maroon Monday: A Rock Island Freight Beginning to End in 1964Date: 06/29/20 13:38 Maroon Monday: A Rock Island Freight Beginning to End in 1964 Author: BNSF-6432 From the approaching EMD rumble to the caboose fading away to each joint, here's a look at a northbound Rock Island freight traveling through Oklahoma. I believe these were taken in Frank Tribbey's hometown of Medford, OK.
1) A quartet of pinstriped maroon EMD's (Two F's and two GP's) take lead approaching Mr. Tribbey. 2) The consist throttles up out of town with loads of coal, possibly from the southeast region of the state near the head end. 3) Some sort of special load rides on three flat cars 19 cars from the head end. Date: 06/29/20 13:41 Re: Maroon Monday: A Rock Island Freight Beginning to End in 1964 Author: BNSF-6432 4) More miscellaneous freight towards the rear.
5) Five trailers bring up the rear ahead of the caboose, with windows open for A/C in the summer heat. Taken by Frank Tribbey in July of 1964 PQM Date: 06/29/20 13:57 Re: Maroon Monday: A Rock Island Freight Beginning to End in 1964 Author: ghemr Interesting photos, especially the gondolas converted to intermodal service at the rear of the train!
Date: 06/29/20 13:59 Re: Maroon Monday: A Rock Island Freight Beginning to End in 1964 Author: dcfbalcoS1 Track still in pretty good shape back in the early 60's. Won't last long however.
The odd loads back in the train may be two upright cement storage tanks belonging to Halliburton and the center car has a scale tank and I-beam frame. If this is correct it is probably going to a new bulk plant construction site and probably came from the shop in Duncan, Okla. Date: 06/29/20 14:38 Re: Maroon Monday: A Rock Island Freight Beginning to End in 1964 Author: kevink Pretty cool, thanks for sharing!
Date: 06/29/20 14:47 Re: Maroon Monday: A Rock Island Freight Beginning to End in 1964 Author: SCKP187 Neat sequence.
Brian Stevens Date: 06/29/20 15:27 Re: Maroon Monday: A Rock Island Freight Beginning to End in 1964 Author: Milwaukee That entire train from the power to the caboose looks like it came right out of the Lionel model train catalog!
Thanks for sharing the great group of photos. Very interesting to see the Might Fine Line when it could legitimately use that line. Date: 06/29/20 16:51 Re: Maroon Monday: A Rock Island Freight Beginning to End in 1964 Author: LV95032 Oh for someone to take photos of every car in that train and then the next train and the next .... What a wonderful collection that would be !
Date: 06/29/20 16:56 Re: Maroon Monday: A Rock Island Freight Beginning to End in 1964 Author: Dick The Rock Island in the sixties used gondolas when they were short of flats which was just about all the time as their piggyback traffic ws growing rapidly. As far as i know these were circus loaded.
Dick Eisfeller Date: 06/29/20 20:12 Re: Maroon Monday: A Rock Island Freight Beginning to End in 1964 Author: Clarence A C&IM box is a rare bird.
Clarence Date: 06/29/20 21:15 Re: Maroon Monday: A Rock Island Freight Beginning to End in 1964 Author: Ritzville What a cool series! Very enjoyable!
Larry Date: 06/30/20 00:34 Re: Maroon Monday: A Rock Island Freight Beginning to End in 1964 Author: Evan_Werkema dcfbalcoS1 Wrote:
> Track still in pretty good shape > back in the early 60's. Won't last long however. Rock Island freight "beginning to end" in more ways than one. Date: 06/30/20 01:16 Re: Maroon Monday: A Rock Island Freight Beginning to End in 1964 Author: mp51w The two trucks at the crossing are cool too!
Date: 06/30/20 05:13 Re: Maroon Monday: A Rock Island Freight Beginning to End in 1964 Author: zr190 Dick Wrote:
------------------------------------------------------- > The Rock Island in the sixties used gondolas when > they were short of flats which was just about all > the time as their piggyback traffic ws growing > rapidly. As far as i know these were circus > loaded. To clarify, the gons were re-built with 5th wheels in order to handle trailers. Later they were -re-re-built to company tieservice. zr190 Date: 06/30/20 06:51 Re: Maroon Monday: A Rock Island Freight Beginning to End in 1964 Author: Bob3985 Excellent photos.
Thanks for the memories. Bob Krieger Cheyenne, WY Date: 06/30/20 06:52 Re: Maroon Monday: A Rock Island Freight Beginning to End in 1964 Author: SP8595 Incredible series!
Date: 06/30/20 08:54 Re: Maroon Monday: A Rock Island Freight Beginning to End in 1964 Author: cabman What a great collection taken when freight trains were interesting, unlike today. And not a single tagged car!
Date: 07/01/20 20:58 Re: Maroon Monday: A Rock Island Freight Beginning to End in 1964 Author: rrman6 A beautiful train and with NO graffiti. Thanks for the incredible shots of better times!
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