Description: CHICAGO ROCK ISLAND & PACIFIC RAILROADROCK ISLAND LINE This is a Vintage piece of Railroad History made by The Adams & Westlake Company for the CHICAGO ROCK ISLAND & PACIFIC RAILROAD. The frame is marked THE ADAMS & WESTLAKE CO. NEW YORK CHICAGO PHILA. "ADLAKE" RELIABLE ROCK ISLAND LINES. PAT'D MAY 5, 1908, last date APR. 1, 1913. The Brass burner and fuel fount are in good working condition. The Corning clear glass globe is embossed ROCK ISLAND LINES Cnx 2, No cracks, some small flea chips around rims and some cast marks. Please view photos and Email with questions. Thanks for looking.Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railroad8 languagesArticleTalkReadEditView historyToolsFrom Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaFor related topics, see Rock Island Line (disambiguation). For the new company, see Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railroad (2017).This article needs additional citations for verification. Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. Find sources: "Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railroad" – news · newspapers · books · scholar · JSTOR (January 2022) (Learn how and when to remove this message)Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific RailroadThe Rock Island System in 1965.OverviewHeadquartersChicago, IllinoisReporting markCRIP, RI, ROCKLocaleArkansas, Colorado, Illinois, Iowa, Kansas, Louisiana, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, New Mexico, Oklahoma, South Dakota, Tennessee, and TexasDates of operationOctober 10, 1852–March 31, 1980SuccessorshowListTechnicalTrack gauge4 ft 8+1⁄2 in (1,435 mm) standard gaugeThe original 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.
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Location: Warsaw, Missouri
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