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Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific 886 (previously known as Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific 887 [1]) is a 4-6-2 Pacific type steam locomotive built in 1910 by the American Locomotive Company for the Rock Island Railroad. [2] [3] It is located in Illinois.
In 1940, the Rock Island Railroad approached ALCO about building a road switcher locomotive, for both road and switching service. [1] To meet the Rock Island's request, ALCO created the RS-1. Their new design was a hood unit, in contrast to most existing locomotive designs at the time which were predominantly carbody units. The hood unit design ...
Rock Island locomotive #627, circa 1910 Fractional Share of the Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific Railway Company, issued June 30, 1898. Its predecessor, the Rock Island and La Salle Railroad Company, was incorporated in Illinois on February 27, 1847, and an amended charter was approved on February 7, 1851, as the Chicago and Rock Island Railroad.
The EMC-TA was a model of diesel locomotive produced for the Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railroad by the Electro-Motive Corporation in 1937. The original six Rock Island Rockets streamliners were three- or four-car stainless-steel semi-articulated trainsets built by Budd Company, powered by six identical locomotives, #601-606.
Railroad Quantity FA-2 Quantity FB-2 Road numbers FA-2 Road numbers FB-2 Notes American Locomotive Company: 2: 2: 1603A, D: 1603B, C: 1603A, B, C, D sold to Chicago and North Western 4103A, B-4104A, B Ann Arbor Railroad: 14 — 50, A–56, A — 4 units to Wabash Railroad in 1964, remainder traded to EMD on GP35s Baltimore and Ohio Railroad: 28: 16
The former NYC 4085, preserved at the New York Central Railroad Museum, was the lead locomotive on the final eastbound 20th Century Limited. [9] Another surviving E8 was operated by the Midland Railway, in Baldwin City, Kansas. Privately owned, this unit is ex-Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railroad E8A #652 and was used for special events ...
Monongahela Connecting Railroad 701 is at the Railroad Museum of Pennsylvania. [5] Chehalis Western Railroad 684 is at Fife History Museum and Cultural Center in Fife, Washington. [7] Buffalo Southern Railroad 423, formerly Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railroad 423 is at the Buffalo Southern's Hamburg Shops in Hamburg, New York. [8]
The Chicago Rock Island & Pacific Railroad LLC (AAR-reporting mark RILX) is an American Class III railroad operating in Mississippi, Kansas and Oklahoma.It uses the name and the most recent corporate identity of the first Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railroad (1852–1980).