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Rock Island locomotive #627, circa 1910 Fractional Share of the Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific Railway Company, issued June 30, 1898. Its predecessor, the Rock Island and La Salle Railroad Company, was incorporated in Illinois on February 27, 1847, and an amended charter was approved on February 7, 1851, as the Chicago and Rock Island Railroad.
The Rock Island District (RI) is a Metra commuter rail line from Chicago, Illinois, southwest to Joliet.Metra does not refer to its lines by color, but the timetable accents for the Rock Island District line are "Rocket Red" in honor of the Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railroad's Rocket passenger trains.
Originally, the Rock Island Railroad provided passenger service in the Quad Cities via the Quad Cities Rocket train. The railroad initially declined to hand passenger operations over to Amtrak, and service to Chicago continued until December 31, 1978.
It operated on a route between Chicago and Rock Island, Illinois. It was a remnant of one of the Rock Island's premier trains, the Rocky Mountain Rocket. That train's route had been cut back to Omaha in 1966; after a year without a name, it was renamed The Cornhusker.
Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railroad: RI: 1866 1880 Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railway: Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railway: RI RI 1880 1948 Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railroad: Chicago and Rock River Railroad: CB&Q: 1869 1899 Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad: Chicago, Rockford and Northern Railroad: CB&Q: 1874 1892 ...
Pages in category "Passenger trains of the Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railroad" The following 12 pages are in this category, out of 12 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
Rock Island Rail is also planning to reopen the rail line between the river port of Rosedale, Mississippi, and Greenville, Mississippi. The county owned port authority had acquired this line from Illinois Central in 1981 and operated it under the name Great River Railroad until 2001, when the tracks had to be embargoed.
The Chicago Rail Link was the contract switching operator for Union Pacific and CSX's intermodal facilities in Chicago as of 2010, but it is unclear whether this contract is still effective. [6] The CRL serves the Port of Chicago, as well as being the current switching operator over Metra trackage to their Blue Island yard on the Rock Island ...