The Rock Island Line is a mighty fine line – Rock Island Coffee Mug is printed on the back and front. Dishwasher and microwave safe. 11 oz. The Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific Railroad was the first railroad to cross the Mississippi River. This mug features a beautiful collage of Rock Island passenger and freight diesels, with pioneer, farmer, town and country. Rock Island signs and this Rock Island coffee mug make great gifts for Father’s Day, birthday, or retirement.
Information from Wikipedia: The Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railroad (CRI&P RW, sometimes called Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railway)[1] (reporting marks CRIP, RI, ROCK) was an American Class I railroad. It was also known as the Rock Island Line, or, in its final years, The Rock.
At the end of 1970, it operated 7,183 miles of road on 10,669 miles of track; that year it reported 20,557 million ton-miles of revenue freight and 118 million passenger-miles. (Those totals may or may not include the former Burlington-Rock Island Railroad.)
The song “Rock Island Line”, a spiritual from the late 1920s first recorded in 1934, was inspired by the railway.
The Rock Island’s last attempt to survive: In 1974, the road adopted a new color scheme and rebranded itself as “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.
Now set free and adrift, both operationally and financially, the Rock Island assessed its options. It hired a new president and CEO, John W. Ingram, a former Federal Railway Administration (FRA) official. Ingram quickly sought to improve efficiency and sought FRA loans for the rebuild of the line, but finances caught up with the Rock Island all too quickly. With only $300 of cash on hand, on March 17, 1975, Rock Island entered its third bankruptcy under Chapter 77 of the Federal Bankruptcy Act.[8] William M. Gibbons was selected as receiver and trustee by Judge Frank J. McGarr, with whom Gibbons had practiced law with in the early 1960s.
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