Transportation-Trains Information

• Train wreck in snow
  photograph by John Henry Hauberg, MSS 27, glass negative

  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  

• 1) #35 engine, 1882; 2) 4-64 wheeled engine, #3000; Burlington Route exhibit, Chicago World's Fair, Chicago, IL, 1935
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• "America," Rock Island Lines engine, c. 1895, won mail contract for R.I. Lines by making the fastest time between Chicago, IL, & Dubuque, IA
  photograph from the Tom Jackson collection, MSS 304, folder 6

  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  

• Engine 35, 1882, mail car, replica of one on which mail was first sorted while in transit, 7/28/1862
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• No. 6 Baldwin wood-burner, built in 1891, Midwest Central Railroad, Mt. Pleasant, IA
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• No. 2 Baldwin, 1906, served as power in Cypress logging operations in South Carolina, Midwest Central Railroad, Mt. Pleasant, IA
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• Fenelson Place Elevator, 4th St. Lift, Dubuque, IA, world's steepest and shortest scenic railway, erected in 1882, 296 ft. long
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• Locomotive 30006, Class S4 Hudson, 1930, weighs 225 tons, traveled 2,348,267 mi., now located in Galesburg, IL
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• The Rock 4334, 2 General Motors EMD GP 38-2, red GE U-Boat lead coal hoppers & piggyback freight, Des Moines, IA, 12/17/1976
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• "Quad Cities Rocket," Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific Railroad's E-8 Unit #655, passenger train
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• Wreck, C.C.N.W., DeWitt, IA, 4/23/1908
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• Wreck of Dolly near Edwards River, east of New Boston, IL, 3/27/1909
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• Just arrived, Williamsfield, IL, 1910
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• Excursion train, Chicago, Burlington & Quincy (C.B. & Q.), at 20th St., Rock Island, IL, 1963
  photograph from the Tom Jackson collection, MSS 304, folder 6

  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  

• Rock Island Lines locomotive, pulled 1952 Centennial Train
  photograph from the Tom Jackson collection, MSS 304, folder 6

  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  

• Rock Island Southern #527, at Reynolds, IL, 1952
  photograph from the Tom Jackson collection, MSS 304, folder 11

  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  

• Rock Island Southern engine #220, at Milan, IL, c. 1949
  photograph from the Tom Jackson collection, MSS 304, folder 11