ROCK ISLAND RAILROAD PART 2

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  • Опубліковано 29 жов 2024

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  • @joejoebus8814
    @joejoebus8814 Місяць тому +1

    I ♥ The Rock Island Lines, a mighty fine line.

  • @chriscummings4206
    @chriscummings4206 10 місяців тому +4

    There are many adults who build trains from LEGO, and many of them are very detailed (& expensive to build,) and the bright red and yellow diesel colors make it easy to build a roster for The Rock. I greatly appreciate your video series and find the slow pace and the fact that you are understanding of new railfan ignorance of knowledge about such things refreshing. Everyday, I try to find something new, thus broadening my interests in trains. Those EMD E series engines are beautiful.

  • @FreihEitner
    @FreihEitner 8 місяців тому +3

    Some nice vintage photos of a long-lost railroad.

  • @cprtrain
    @cprtrain 10 місяців тому +3

    Outstanding. Thanks.

  • @hongs8867
    @hongs8867 2 місяці тому

    Thanks for the video. Lots a great memories when I was growing up

  • @caseyvillemodelrailroad3877
    @caseyvillemodelrailroad3877 9 місяців тому +2

    Great vidio, love the old locos, im in 0 gauge of this period.Thanks for the morning coffee...

  • @Greatdome99
    @Greatdome99 3 місяці тому +1

    3:13: FTs were designed to be operated in A-B pairs only; in fact they were permanently coupled together with a fixed drawbar. The A unit did not have a starting battery and the B unit had a small steam generator for cab heat. Evidently RI modified innards as well as exterior pieces.
    12:12: H-15-44, not HH15-44. I think you were thinking of Alco's little HH660 switcher.
    32:47: Late model U25Bs had upgraded U28 innards (2800hp) though U25B carbodies were used on early U28s.
    UP scrapped its RI U-Boats and GP40s not long after they recovered them since they didn't have dynamic brakes. I saw some in a Tacoma WA scrap yard in 1982.

  • @richardmead9225
    @richardmead9225 6 місяців тому +1

    At the Oklhoma Railroad Museum, ALCO RS1
    Built in May 1943 by American Locomotive
    Works for the Chicago Rock Island &
    Pacific Railroad. Builder’s No. 70817
    (Phase II RS 1) Road number 743. Went
    through several owners before being
    purchased in 1986 by Eddie Birch Jr. & Jim
    Terrell who donated the locomotive to the
    Oklahoma Railway Museum in 2000.
    Weight: 240,000 pounds.
    Fuel: 1000 gallons

  • @jeffreymcfadden9403
    @jeffreymcfadden9403 10 місяців тому +2

    The Trans-Kentucky Terminal,,,TTI,,,,bought up some RI U28Bs,,,,,,,they were in the U25B car body.
    I photoed some of them.
    The TTI was a spin off L&N branch from Paris , Ky to a coal loading facility on the OHIO River in Maysville , Ky.
    Interestingly,,,,,CSX would later buy back the line.

  • @stephenlineman
    @stephenlineman Місяць тому

    looks to me they went bankrupt for painting engines 35 times to new schemes