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a train traveling down tracks next to a lush green field

This image is for my brother Imperator Marek. The photographer is unknown, but Mark figured out this picture was taken at College View siding in Lincoln, Nebraska during the 1950s. The diesel-electric locomotive is likely Rock Island 9009 and it is pulling train #26. It is eastbound (actually moving north at this location). Rock Island 9009 was one of several small dual-purpose locomotives built for the Rock Island by Electro-Motive Corporation in 1929. Units 9005 - 9007 were built from…

two yellow trains parked next to each other on train tracks

On a cloudy afternoon on October 26, 1969, three Rock Island passenger E-units rest in the Blue Island, Illinois, roundhouse. At the time, the Rock was obtaining some Union Pacific units to shore up passenger needs––photo by Joe McMillan.

two trains on train tracks next to each other

Rock Island E7 639 at Blue Island, Illinois on an unknown day in October 1979, Kodachrome by Chuck Zeiler. Number 639 was built in February 1948 (c/n 3735) on EMD Order E712A. By the date of this photo, the Rock Island no longer operated trains, the commuter operations had been taken over by the Regional Transportation Authority, which replaced these E units with F40PH's, and the freight operations were operated by the Kansas City Terminal, as directed by the ICC. The locomotive on the left…

black and white photograph of an old train

Doodlebugs became a popular early motorized rail car used by the industry to reduce expenses associated with passenger operations on light branch lines. Most were retired by the 1960s.

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