Those are great photos! It is nice to see so many blue freight cars (almost all of them match); however, it is sad to think they aren't in revenue service...
It is looking like #17869 is getting ready to move from Jaycee Grove in Tinley Park, IL. An excavator is parked next to the caboose and has been ripping up...
The Southern Region (south of KC) did NOT shut down on March 15. Operations east of Little Rock concluded on March 24, 1980, and sporadic operations south...
Just wondering if anyone has heard from Kathy lately? If Dave is in N.K.C. Hospital I hope he has a room on the south side over looking the N&S yard. Regards,...
In the continuing story of RI caboose #17869, my source at the Tinley Park-Park District says that the caboose is moving to storage for the moment. They are...
Hello all, I am trying to set up some sort of operation on my very small switching layout using waybills, etc. I imagine that other modelers out there have...
Hi I have a Hallmark 4-8-4 Northern that I would like to have remotored and DCC put in does anyone know of somebody who does this kind of thing. Someone who is...
Hi Jim, For your switching layout, you need to decide if you want to use car cards and waybills (CC&WB) or switchlists. The choice between these is kinda like...
Greetings, I am lowering the price on these 3-bay hoppers, R.I. 131931 and R.I. 131798. They are Intermountain ACF 4650 covered hoppers. The Rock Island...
Dan, Thanks for sharing these, it's nice to see them, but sad at the same time. To this day I am still jealous of my sister, she worked for the newspaper in...
... It breaks my heart to go down there and see all that fine engineering gone to waste. I think the Brighton and Centerville cutoffs were built in the late...
I've always admired the graceful old Western & Atlantic 4-4-0 called the General and plan to eventually try to get one of the 1/25 scale unpowered model kits...
The RI did rent some of the NYC Sharks during a power shortage back in the 1960's                                       ...
Changing the subject slightly, I have a post somewhere about NYC sharks operating on the RI for a very short while. I picked up one of the ER Models NYC Sharks...
Does anyone have more detail such as a date on 631-407 wreck? Richard Haave said "631-407 were damaged near Morris, IL in 1965 IIRC. Freight had lost a pole...
I remember hearing an engine crew talking about when the RI had the NYC Sharks on lease...Would have been sometime before 1960 since It was sometime in early...
When foreign line freight cars were emptied at a point on the Rock Island system what was the standard for returning the empty car back to the home road? Was...
Randy, I'm not familiar with the 1970's, but back in the 50's, the RI PREFERRED to load foreign empties with loads in the "direction" of the car's home road....
Rock Island caboose #17869 has been moved from its former display location at Tinley Park-Park District's McCarthy Park and is currently sitting safely in a...
According to a message on my answering machine, from Dave Schmidt of Houston, TX, he had talked to Dave's sister-in-law who reported that Dave required more...
Thanks Dave Schmidt and Dick for the update. I put a note in the mail to Dave the end of last week, and he should have received it by today. It has a picture...
Many many years ago Trains Magazine followed a 40' boxcar around the country (dim memory makes me think it was a Monon or an N&W box). It made its way all...
... Monon car number 1 ... The owner of the car wanted it to be able to ship HIS loads in. Running abound on other roads only made the per-diem payments. In...
LIST: You guys are making me dust off some of my ancient memory cells here. In the 1970's world of freight cars, this question deals mostly with "system" cars,...
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