maybe this is something RITS could acquire for Savannah with money from the sustaining funds? It would certainly be in the province, and would assuredly be a...
This is an excellent suggestion. Valuation and right of way maps are very helpful when conducting research for a specific part of the Rock Island, and using...
Also in the ICC files, this accident near Norton, KS, where a freight hit a troop train head-on due to a lap train order. The late Marion Parker of Goodland,...
I spent some time a year or two ago with Elwin Musser, the Mason City Globe Gazette photographer who was on the scene for the Buddy Holly plane crash. He gave...
Hey John Please contact me off line would you Lee in Waterloo ... From: jhn To: RITSlist@yahoogroups.com Sent: Saturday, January 31, 2009 1:13 PM Subject:...
... already :-) ... hi Miceal, ahh no you're not. It's not working because some of teh links resolve to a file on someones C: drive- a very basic linking error...
Greetings, I am letting go of two bay window cabooses - one is factory painted, the other I painted. Both are Athearn blue box kits: Athearn Rail Runner/CM...
Hi Dave, Okay thanks for that. At least now I know it is not me who's at fault. Well, inspired by your message I tried the site again this morning and...
From 1940 or 1941 Official Rock Island Directory of Industries Reprint: Hydraulic-Press Brick Co. Hunter Lumber Co. (listed as a coal dealer - it was common...
Hunter Lumber was in Chillicothe and I do know if they had a yard in Sparland too. They did sell all types of coal at the Chillicothe yard and my Mother had...
http://bnsfsd70.rrpicturearchives.net/archivethumbs.aspx?id=39874 Hi. I stopped by Doc's Caboose in Kansas City this past Saturday, and came across the Athearn...
it's gonna be a shame to weather one of these! Tooo pretty! ... From: "Jeff Carlson" <Tuba147@...> To: <RITSlist@yahoogroups.com> Sent: Monday, February...
So summing it up for now. The way it looks right now is that the Lumber co. must have been north of the depot on the east side of the tracks( I'm guessing)...
Hi all, I just uploaded a photo of a MTL GP9 (Joe's Rock Island File) I converted to a GP7 without a dynamic brake and custom painted it in the early scheme....
I dunno....they look awfully weird to me without any dirt on them. _____ From: RITSlist@yahoogroups.com [mailto:RITSlist@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of DAVID...
Group: Its funny how things come back to haunt oneself. I grew up in Moline, Il during the sixties and seventies. Of course the Rock Island was the main...
WHEN YOU'RE TALKING ABOUT GRANGER RAILROADS I THINK OF PHIL WEIBLER, WHO PRODUCED A VIDEO ON "GRAINGER ROADS" SOME YEARS BACK. I DON'T KNOW WHETHER OR NOT IT...
Hello, Paul, Richard, and RITSlist - Check out Herron Rail Video www.herronrail.com for PRAIRIE RAILS - America's Granger Railroads, a documentary produced by...
Hi all,  Does any make an HO scale version of the RI's unique signals?  If not, anyone have plans so I can make one?  Thanks! Jeff  Jeff Worones ...
I'm guessing that you are talking about the tri-color signals arranged in a triangular pattern. Atlas makes the type G signals in single and double head...
Jeff, Model Power #1679 is a block signal in the triangular format, though it is not a scale model of the RI signal. DT ... From: RITSlist@yahoogroups.com on...
Greetings and Salutations! ?? Are there available anywhere, track diagrams for the Rocks Illinois Divisions for purchase or otherwise? Thanks! Kevin...
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