Two laborers hurry to finishing refueling Rock Island 40 East at Herington, Kansas — a poor man’s fueling facility on the ground, no pipes, no uprights.
Rock Island Geep 1330 leads its local over the manual CB&Q crossing on the outskirts of St.Joseph, Missouri for a customer probably waiting for his shipment in the insulated box car. October 22, ... (more)
With four F units and two Geeps, Rock Island’s 106 West has just returned to its own trackage and guns it out of Topeka, Ks. headed west on April 18, 1965.
Three Geeps hustle Rock Island tonnage westbound over Union Pacific traffic rights at North Topeka, Kansas as Santa Fe’s local from Atchison with a Fairbanks-Morse road-switcher also arrives tow... (more)
“Can you hear me now?” Rock Island GP40 371 and GP35 318 follow a rural “grapevine” phone line near Mayetta, Kansas northward toward St. Joseph, Mo. July 3, 1965.