Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railroad
 | | Reporting marks | RI, ROCK | | Locale | Arkansas, Colorado, Illinois, Iowa, Kansas, Louisiana, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, New Mexico, Oklahoma, South Dakota, Tennessee, and Texas | | Dates of operation | October 10, 1852 – March 31, 1980 | | Track gauge | 4 ft 8½ in (1435 mm) (standard gauge) | | Headquarters | Chicago, Illinois | The Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railroad (AAR reporting mark RI) was a Class I railroad in the United States. It was also known as the Rock Island Line, or, in its final years, THE ROCK. Its ancestor, the Chicago and Rock Island Railroad, was incorporated on February 7, 1851 and operated its first train on October 10, 1852, between Chicago and Rock Island, Illinois. Image File history File links Chicago_Rock_Island_and_Pacific_Herald. ...
Reporting marks on two CP Rail covered hoppers passing Wisconsin Dells, Wisconsin, June 20, 2004. ...
Official language(s) English Capital Largest city Little Rock Little Rock Area Ranked 29th - Total 53,179 sq mi (137,732 km²) - Width 239 miles (385 km) - Length 261 miles (420 km) - % water 2. ...
Official language(s) English Capital Denver Largest city Denver Area - Total - Width - Length - % water - Latitude - Longitude Ranked 8th 104,185 sq mi 269 837 km² 280 miles 451 km 380 miles 612 km 0. ...
Official language(s) English Capital Springfield Largest city Chicago Area - Total - Width - Length - % water - Latitude - Longitude Ranked 25th 149,998 km² 340 km 629 km 4. ...
Official language(s) English Capital Des Moines Largest city Des Moines Area - Total - Width - Length - % water - Latitude - Longitude Ranked 26th 145,743 km² 320 km 500 km 0. ...
Official language(s) None Capital Topeka Largest city Wichita Area - Total - Width - Length - % water - Latitude - Longitude Ranked 15th 82,277 mi²; 213,096 km² 211 mi; 340 km 400 mi; 645 km 0. ...
Official language(s) English and French Capital Largest city Baton Rouge New Orleans at last census; probably Baton Rouge since Hurricane Katrina Area - Total - Width - Length - % water - Latitude - Longitude Ranked 31st 51,885 sq mi 134,382 km² 130 miles 210 km 379 miles 610 km 16 29°N to...
Official language(s) None Capital Largest city Saint Paul Minneapolis Area - Total - Width - Length - % water - Latitude - Longitude Ranked 12th 87,014 sq mi 225,365 km² 250 miles 400 km 400 miles 645 km 8. ...
Official language(s) none, English most common Capital Largest city Jefferson City Kansas City Area - Total - Width - Length - % water - Latitude - Longitude Ranked 21st 69,709 sq mi 180,693 km² 240 miles 385 km 300 miles 480 km 1. ...
Official language(s) English Capital Largest city Lincoln Omaha Area Ranked 16th - Total 77,421 sq mi (200,520 km²) - Width 210 miles (340 km) - Length 430 miles (690 km) - % water 0. ...
Official language(s) None; English and Spanish de facto Capital Largest city Santa Fe Albuquerque Area - Total - Width - Length - % water - Latitude - Longitude Ranked 5th 315,194 km² 550 km 595 km 0. ...
Official language(s) None Capital Largest city Oklahoma City Oklahoma City Area Ranked 20th - Total 69,960 sq mi (181,196 km²) - Width 230 miles (370 km) - Length 298 miles (480 km) - % water 1. ...
Official language(s) English Capital Pierre Largest city Sioux Falls Area - Total - Width - Length - % water - Latitude - Longitude Ranked 17th 199,905 km² 340 km 610 km 1. ...
Official language(s) English Capital Nashville Largest city Memphis Area - Total - Width - Length - % water - Latitude - Longitude Ranked 36th 109,247 km² 195 km 710 km 2. ...
Official language(s) None. ...
October 10 is the 283rd day of the year (284th in Leap years). ...
1852 was a leap year starting on Thursday (see link for calendar). ...
March 31 is the 90th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (91st in Leap years), with 275 days remaining. ...
1980 (MCMLXXX) was a leap year starting on Tuesday. ...
Rail gauge is the distance between two rails of a railroad. ...
A foot (plural: feet) is a non-SI unit of distance or length, measuring around a third of a meter. ...
Mid-19th century tool for converting between different standards of the inch An inch is an Imperial and U.S. customary unit of length. ...
A millimetre (American spelling: millimeter, symbol mm) is an SI unit of length that is equal to one thousandth of a metre. ...
As railways developed and expanded one of the key issues to be decided was that of the rail gauge (the distance between the two rails of the track) which should be used. ...
Nickname: The Windy City Motto: Urbs In Horto (Latin: City in a Garden), I Will Official website: http://egov. ...
A World War II era print advertisement for the Association of American Railroads (AAR). ...
Reporting marks on two CP Rail covered hoppers passing Wisconsin Dells, Wisconsin, June 20, 2004. ...
A Class I railroad in the United States, or a Class I railway (also Class I rail carrier) in Canada, is one of the largest freight railroads, as classified based on operating revenue. ...
February 7 is the 38th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. ...
1851 was a common year starting on Wednesday (see link for calendar). ...
October 10 is the 283rd day of the year (284th in Leap years). ...
1852 was a leap year starting on Thursday (see link for calendar). ...
Chicago (officially named the City of Chicago) is the third largest city in the United States (after New York City and Los Angeles), with an official population of 2,896,016, as of the 2000 census. ...
Rock Island is a city located in Rock Island County, Illinois. ...
Once an acquisition target of the Union Pacific Railroad, the company went into receivership for its third and final bankruptcy in 1975. Attempts to reorganize failed, and the ICC ordered the Kansas City Terminal railway to take over operations of the Rock Island in August 1979 after a clerk strike. On March 31, 1980, the bankruptcy court ruled that the Rock Island could not be successfully reorganized and ordered its liquidation, the largest such liquidation in U.S. history. The Union Pacific Railroad NYSE: UNP is the largest railroad in the United States. ...
Bankruptcy is a legally declared inability or impairment of ability of an individual or organization to pay their creditors. ...
Notice of closure stuck on the door of a computer store the day after its parent company, Granville Technology Group Ltd, declared bankruptcy (strictly, administration - see text) in the UK. Bankruptcy is a legally declared inability or impairment of ability of an individual or organization to pay their creditors. ...
1975 (MCMLXXV) was a common year starting on Wednesday (the link is to a full 1975 calendar). ...
March 31 is the 90th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (91st in Leap years), with 275 days remaining. ...
1980 (MCMLXXX) was a leap year starting on Tuesday. ...
Territory The Rock Island stretched across Colorado, Illinois, Iowa, Kansas, Missouri, Nebraska, New Mexico, Oklahoma and Texas. The easternmost reach of the system was Chicago, and the system also reached Memphis, Tennessee; west, it reached Denver, Colorado, and Santa Rosa, New Mexico. Southernmost reaches were to Galveston, Texas, and Eunice, Louisiana while in a northerly direction the Rock Island got as far as Minneapolis, Minnesota. Official language(s) English Capital Denver Largest city Denver Area - Total - Width - Length - % water - Latitude - Longitude Ranked 8th 104,185 sq mi 269 837 km² 280 miles 451 km 380 miles 612 km 0. ...
Official language(s) English Capital Springfield Largest city Chicago Area - Total - Width - Length - % water - Latitude - Longitude Ranked 25th 149,998 km² 340 km 629 km 4. ...
Official language(s) English Capital Des Moines Largest city Des Moines Area - Total - Width - Length - % water - Latitude - Longitude Ranked 26th 145,743 km² 320 km 500 km 0. ...
Official language(s) None Capital Topeka Largest city Wichita Area - Total - Width - Length - % water - Latitude - Longitude Ranked 15th 82,277 mi²; 213,096 km² 211 mi; 340 km 400 mi; 645 km 0. ...
Official language(s) none, English most common Capital Largest city Jefferson City Kansas City Area - Total - Width - Length - % water - Latitude - Longitude Ranked 21st 69,709 sq mi 180,693 km² 240 miles 385 km 300 miles 480 km 1. ...
Official language(s) English Capital Largest city Lincoln Omaha Area Ranked 16th - Total 77,421 sq mi (200,520 km²) - Width 210 miles (340 km) - Length 430 miles (690 km) - % water 0. ...
Official language(s) None; English and Spanish de facto Capital Largest city Santa Fe Albuquerque Area - Total - Width - Length - % water - Latitude - Longitude Ranked 5th 315,194 km² 550 km 595 km 0. ...
Official language(s) None Capital Largest city Oklahoma City Oklahoma City Area Ranked 20th - Total 69,960 sq mi (181,196 km²) - Width 230 miles (370 km) - Length 298 miles (480 km) - % water 1. ...
Official language(s) None. ...
Nickname: The Windy City Motto: Urbs In Horto (Latin: City in a Garden), I Will Official website: http://egov. ...
Nickname: The River City, The Bluff City Official website: http://www. ...
Nickname: The Mile-High City Official website: http://www. ...
Santa Rosa is the county seat of Guadalupe County, New Mexico. ...
Nickname: The Oleander City Official website: City of Galveston Location Location in the state of Texas Government County Galveston Mayor Lyda Ann Thomas Geographical characteristics Area Total 539. ...
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Nickname: City of Lakes Motto: En Avant Official website: http://www. ...
Major lines included Minneapolis to Kansas City, Missouri, via Des Moines, Iowa; St. Louis, Missouri, to Santa Rosa via Kansas City; Herington, Kansas, to Galveston, Texas, via Fort Worth, Texas, and Dallas, Texas; and Santa Rosa to Memphis. The heaviest traffic was on the Chicago-to-Rock Island and Rock Island-to-Muscatine lines. Image File history File links CRIP_235. ...
Image File history File links CRIP_235. ...
Milwaukee Road GE U25B at Bellingham, Washington, 1972. ...
Incorporated City in 1835. ...
1975 (MCMLXXV) was a common year starting on Wednesday (the link is to a full 1975 calendar). ...
Nickname: City of Fountains or Heart of America Official website: http://www. ...
Des Moines skyline, as seen from the Iowa State Capitol. ...
Nickname: Gateway City, Gateway to the West, or Mound City Official website: http://stlouis. ...
Herington is a city located in Dickinson County, Kansas. ...
Nickname: The Oleander City Official website: City of Galveston Location Location in the state of Texas Government County Galveston Mayor Lyda Ann Thomas Geographical characteristics Area Total 539. ...
Nickname: Cowtown Motto: Official website: ci. ...
Nickname: Big D Official website: www. ...
The system got its start in Chicago and was a major player in the Iowa railroad industry.
Passenger trains The Rock Island jointly operated the Golden State Limited (Chicago—Kansas City—Tucumcari—El Paso—Los Angeles) with the Southern Pacific Railroad from 1902–1968. The name was shortened to the Golden State after 1948's modernization. Train No. ...
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1902 (MCMII) was a common year starting on Wednesday (see link for calendar). ...
1968 (MCMLXVIII) was a leap year starting on Monday (the link is to a full 1968 calendar). ...
State nickname: The Golden State Other U.S. States Capital Sacramento Largest city Los Angeles Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger Official languages English Area 410,000 km² (3rd) - Land 404,298 km² - Water 20,047 km² (4. ...
1948 (MCMXLVIII) was a leap year starting on Thursday (the link is to a full 1948 calendar). ...
The railroad operated a number of trains known as Rockets serving the Midwest, including the Rocky Mountain Rocket (Chicago—Omaha—Lincoln—Denver—Colorado Springs), the Corn Belt Rocket (Chicago—Des Moines—Omaha), the Twin Star Rocket (Minneapolis—St. Paul—Des Moines—Kansas City—Oklahoma City—Fort Worth—Dallas—Houston), the Zephyr Rocket (Minneapolis—St. Paul—Burlington—St. Louis) and the Choctaw Rocket (Memphis—Little Rock—Oklahoma City—Amarillo). The Choctaw Rocket was a named passenger train operated by the Rock Island Railroad, initially designated as train No. ...
The Rock Island did not join Amtrak on its formation in 1971, and continued to operate its own passenger trains. After concluding that the cost of joining would be the same as operating the two remaining intercity roundtrips (the Chicago-Peoria Peoria Rocket and the Chicago-Rock Island Quad Cities Rocket), the railroad decided to "perform a public service for the state of Illinois" and continue intercity passenger operations. Both trains were discontinued on December 31, 1978. Amtrak train in downtown Orlando, Florida Amtrakâs high-speed Acela Express at Penn Station New York, NY Amtrak is the brand name of the intercity passenger train system created on May 1, 1971 in the United States. ...
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As part of its last-ditch effort to stay in business, the road adopted a new color scheme proclaiming " The Rock." #4340 was among several EMD GP38-2 units acquired by the Missouri Pacific Railroad when the Rock Island shut down in 1980, and became MoPac #2278. A song called The Rock Island Line memorializes the railroad. Versions were recorded by Johnny Cash, Johnny Horton, Huddie Ledbetter, The Weavers, Lonnie Donegan and many other artists, including a parody version by Stan Freberg. The chorus to the old song reads: Image File history File links RI_4340. ...
Image File history File links RI_4340. ...
LLPX 2235 leads a train in Anaheim, California, in early 2005. ...
Missouri Pacific (MoPac; AAR reporting mark MP) was one of the first railroads in the United States west of the Mississippi River. ...
1980 (MCMLXXX) was a leap year starting on Tuesday. ...
Johnny Cash (February 26, 1932 â September 12, 2003) was a vastly influential American country music and rock music singer, guitarist and songwriter and the husband of June Carter Cash. ...
John Gale Johnny Horton (April 30, 1925âNovember 5, 1960) was an American country music singer. ...
Leadbelly (January 29, 1885 - December 6, 1949) was an influential blues singer and guitarist. ...
The Weavers were an immensely popular and influential folk music quartet from Greenwich Village, New York, United States. ...
Lonnie Donegan MBE (April 29, 1931 â November 3, 2002) was a skiffle musician, possibly the most famous of them all. ...
Stanley Victor Freberg (born August 7, 1926 in Los Angeles) is a voice actor, comedian, and advertising creative. ...
- The Rock Island Line is a mighty good road
- The Rock Island Line is the road to ride
- The Rock Island Line is a mighty good road
- If you want to ride you gotta ride it like you find it
- Get your ticket at the station for the Rock Island Line
The verses of the song tell a humourous story about a train operator who smuggles "pig iron" through a toll gate by claiming all he hand on board was live stock
See also The Spirt of Peoria on the 2004 Grand Excursion The Grand Excursion was a voyage by train and steamboat into the Upper Mississippi River valley that first took place in June of 1854. ...
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References - (1973). Handy Railroad Atlas of the United States. Rand McNally & Co. p.53.
External links - Rock Island Technical Society History page @ Simpson College
- The Rock Island Line
- History of the song
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A Northern Pacific train travels over Bozeman Pass, June 1939. ...
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The Northwestern Pacific Railroad (NWP) was a regional railroad serving the Redwood Empire of Northern California. ...
The New York Central Railroad (AAR reporting mark NYC), known simply as the New York Central in its publicity, was a railroad operating in the North-Eastern United States. ...
The New York Connecting Railroad or NYCR is a rail line in Queens, New York City. ...
The New York, Susquehanna and Western Railway (NYS&W), also known as the Susie-Q, is a freight railway that runs from Bergen, Hudson and Passaic counties in northern New Jersey northwest through Binghamton, New York with northern termini in Syracuse and Utica. ...
The Oklahoma City-Ada-Atoka Railway(OCAA) was formed from trackage from Oklahoma City, Oklahoma to Atoka, Oklahoma via Shawnee, Oklahoma and Ada, Oklahoma that was not included in the 1923 reorganization of the Missouri-Kansas-Texas Railroad. ...
Oregon Electric Railway was an interurban railroad line that linked Portland, Oregon to Eugene, Oregon. ...
Spokane, Portland & Seattle Railway coach at Snoqualmie, Washington (Northwest Railway Museum collection) The Spokane, Portland and Seattle Railway (AAR reporting mark SPS) was a United States-based railroad incorporated in 1905. ...
The New York, Ontario and Western Railway, more commonly known as the O&W or NYO&W, was a regional railroad with origins in 1868, lasting until 1957 when it was ordered liquidated by a US bankruptcy judge. ...
The Penn Central Transportation Company, usually called Penn Central, was an American railroad company, headquartered in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and formed by the merger on February 1, 1968 of the Pennsylvania Railroad and the New York Central Railroad. ...
The Pittsburgh and Lake Erie Railroad (P&LE) ( AAR reporting mark PLE), also known as the Little Giant, was formed on May 11, 1875. ...
The Pere Marquette Railway (AAR reporting mark PM) was a railroad that operated in the Great Lakes region of the United States. ...
1893 map The Pennsylvania Railroad (AAR reporting mark PRR) was an American railroad existing 1846â1968, after which it merged into Penn Central Transportation. ...
Pennsylvania-Reading Seashore Lines (PRSL) was a joint venture of the Pennsylvania Railroad and Reading Railroad in southern New Jersey. ...
The Pittsburg, Shawmut and Northern Railroad (AAR reporting mark PSN) also known as the Shawmut Line, was a former short line railroad company operating passenger and freight service on standard gauge track in central Pennsylvania and western New York. ...
The P&WV formed a connection between the Wheeling and Lake Erie Railway and Western Maryland Railway. ...
1923 map The Reading Company (AAR reporting mark RDG), usually called the Reading Railroad, and officially known as the Philadelphia and Reading Rail Road and then the Philadelphia and Reading Railway until 1924, operated in southeast Pennsylvania and neighboring states. ...
The Richmond, Fredericksburg, and Potomac Railroad (AAR reporting mark RFP) was a railroad connecting Richmond, Virginia to Washington, DC. It is now a portion of the CSX Transportation system. ...
The Rutland Railroad was a small railroad in the north-eastern United States, primarily in the state of Vermont but extending into the state of New York. ...
The Seaboard Air Line Railroad (AAR reporting mark SAL) was an American railroad that existed between 1880s and 1967, when it merged with the Atlantic Coast Line Railroad, its longtime rival, to form the Seaboard Coast Line Railroad. ...
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The Spokane International Railroad (SI) was a short line railroad which first went into operation December 31, 1887 between Spokane, Washington and the Canadian Pacific at Kingsgate, British Columbia. ...
Staten Island Railway (SIR, formerly SIRT) is a rapid transit line operating in the Borough of Staten Island, New York City, USA. Like the BMT lines to Coney Island, it began as a normal railway but was later converted to R44 subway cars . ...
The Sacramento Northern Railway was an electric interurban railway system in the U.S. state of California. ...
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The Southern Railway (AAR reporting mark SOU) was the product of nearly 150 predecessor lines that were combined, reorganized and recombined beginning in the 1830s, formally becoming the Southern Railway in 1894. ...
The Southern Pacific Railroad (AAR reporting mark SP) was an American railroad. ...
Spokane, Portland & Seattle Railway coach at Snoqualmie, Washington (Northwest Railway Museum collection) The Spokane, Portland and Seattle Railway was a United States-based railroad incorporated in 1905. ...
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The Tennessee, Alabama and Georgia Railroad was created through a reorganization of the Chattanooga Southern Railway in 1911. ...
The Tennessee Central Railway Company was founded in 1884 as The Nashville and Knoxville Railroad Company. ...
On 1 January 2005, Kansas City Southern (KCS) took control of The Texas Mexican Railway Company (Tex Mex) and the U.S. portion of the International Bridge in Laredo, Texas. ...
Map The Texas and Northern Railway (AAR reporting mark TN) is an eight-mile (13 km) railroad connecting Lone Star, Texas, to the former Louisiana and Arkansas Railway, now a line of the Kansas City Southern Railway, between Daingerfield and Hughes Springs. ...
The Texas and Pacific Railway Company (known as the T&P) was created by federal charter in 1871 with the purpose of building a southern transcontinental railroad between Marshall, Texas and San Diego, California. ...
Utah Railway, railway in the American state of Utah. ...
The Virginian Railway (AAR reporting mark VGN) was a Class 1 railroad located in Virginia and West Virginia in the United States. ...
The Western Railway of Alabama (WRA), also known as the Montgomery and West Point Railroad, ran from a junction near Selma, Alabama through Montgomery, Alabama to West Point, Georgia. ...
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There were two Wisconsin Central railroads that ran through Wisconsin and neighboring states. ...
The Wheeling and Lake Erie Railway (reporting mark WLE)s oldest predecessor rail line began in Ohio, with the organization of the Carroll County Rail Road on March 9, 1850. ...
The Western Maryland Railway ( AAR reporting mark WM) was an American Class I railroad which operated in Maryland, West Virginia and Pennsylvania. ...
The Western Pacific Railroad (AAR reporting mark WP) was a Class I railroad in the United States. ...
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