This was taken 4 days after it was all over.
A blue "Rock" GP sits outside of the engine house at Silvis sometime after shutdown. Unknown photographer and date.
Not only was 630 the only Shovelnose on the Rock Island painted with a golden nose, it was (and still is) the last operational E6 in the country. Just as several of The Rock's Early Cowl units ha... (more)
A vintage view inside Silvis of Rock Island workers moving the boiler and cab of one of the 5000 series during a rebuild. Date and photographer unknown.
Rock Island U30C basking in the morning sun outside of the Silvis shops. Rock Island purchased 18 of these beasts in 1973.
The Company Sign! Chrome was a rebuilder of locomotives in the ex-CRI&P shops and yard.
The Rock Island Switcher works the sidings at Silvis with an SD38-2. In the background is National Railway Equipment's (NRE) Silvis facility, the former Rock Island shops.
They had been sitting there a long time.
A rare overhead view inside the Rock Island locomotive facilty at Silvis, Illinois. Unknown date and photographer.
An aerial view of the Rock Island yard in Silvis, Illinois. Unknown date and photographer.
Rock Island U30C 4587 heads the line of a dozen dead and forlorn U-boats waiting their final fate on a siding at Silvis, Illinois on March 26, 1989.
I loved the sound of these in Run 8.
Great paint scheme.
EMD and GE products pair up at Silvis waiting for work.