RI Any Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific fans left...

Stourbridge Lion Aug 29, 2006

  1. The Rocket

    The Rocket Staff Member TrainBoard Supporter

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    C Scott Richardson
    RockIslandLine.org
    2394 Highway 38
    Wilton, Iowa 52778

    I will take anything you have for Rock Island Images... and can even send them back to you if you would like! Thank you!
     
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  2. The Rocket

    The Rocket Staff Member TrainBoard Supporter

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    They have been added to the site in the 1st Coach... Thank you!
     
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  3. Kurt Moose

    Kurt Moose TrainBoard Member

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    I'll get them in the mail as soon as I can for you!(y)
     
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  4. BoxcabE50

    BoxcabE50 HOn30 & N Scales Staff Member TrainBoard Supporter

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    In your "2nd Coach", "King Street Station" can be deleted. It went away many years ago, when Karl passed on.
     
  5. Kurt Moose

    Kurt Moose TrainBoard Member

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    Karl King, miss that guy!:cry:

    Used to go over to his house weekly, buy stuff, chat with him, run some trains on that huge layout of his!
    He was a good guy.:(
     
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  6. BoxcabE50

    BoxcabE50 HOn30 & N Scales Staff Member TrainBoard Supporter

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    Yup. Was there many a time. It was a great place to meet up with fellow N scalers. Bought heaps of stuff from him.
     
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  7. r_i_straw

    r_i_straw Mostly N Scale Staff Member

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    Most of my photos are of old beat up equipment like this old "Al Capone" coach that someone had on their ranch south of Dallas.
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    Or this hopper waiting for repairs at the GATX plant in Hearne, Texas.
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  8. r_i_straw

    r_i_straw Mostly N Scale Staff Member

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    I posted these photos last December in another thread. They salvaged some parts of an old covered hopper they were scrapping to use for decor at the new Farmrail office in Clinton, Oklahoma.
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  9. acptulsa

    acptulsa TrainBoard Member

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    Good stuff. But neither is my favorite Rock Island photo.

    You posted that here some time ago.

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  10. r_i_straw

    r_i_straw Mostly N Scale Staff Member

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    Oh, yeah. I forgot about that one at Houston Union Station. The TA 602 diesel was out of service on Feb. 7, 1938 when Rock Island 47 had to be substituted to pull the Budd built train set for the Texas Rocket. Here is another Rock steamer at Houston Union Station, power for a heavyweight train on the Bulington Rock Island joint line.
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  11. Kurt Moose

    Kurt Moose TrainBoard Member

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    Jeez, I'm horrible at remembering things!:confused:

    Getting these in the mail to you today! 20 pics total, and you can keep them. I got them with a batch of Milw ones so they're not needed.
     
  12. WVa_Jon

    WVa_Jon TrainBoard Member

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    Looks like it's been a while since the last post so here goes. I live in central MO, about an hour away from the St Louis-KC sub through Eldon, Versailles, and other MO towns. Rails stayed in place, incredibly, until the 2014-16 time frame when those rails disappeared. It's been a few years but rail was still in place from somewhere around St Louis to east of Gerald, MO. The highway crossing, west of Union on US 50 was still in place, as of my last visit, but everything west of that highway crossing is gone. I have a number of pictures and will upload them if possible.
     

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