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	Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railroad - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railroad (AAR reporting mark RI) was a Class I railroad in the United States.
		Its ancestor, the Chicago and Rock Island Railroad, was incorporated on February 7, 1851 and operated its first train on October 10, 1852, between Chicago and Rock Island, Illinois.
		Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railroad #235, a GE U25B, passes through Blue Island, Illinois, in July, 1975.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Chicago,_Rock_Island_and_Pacific_Railroad (700 words)

	Encyclopedia: Rock and Roll
		Rock and roll (also spelled rock 'n' roll, especially in its first decade), is a genre of music that emerged as a defined musical style in the Southern United States in the 1950s, and quickly spread to the rest of the country, and the world (rhythm sample).
		Rock and roll emerged as a defined musical style in America in the 1950s, though elements of rock and roll can be heard in rhythm and blues records as far back as the 1920s.
		Main article: British rock British rock was born out of the influence of rock and roll and rhythm and blues from the United States, but added a new drive and urgency, exporting the music back and widening the audience for fl R and B in the U.S. as well as spreading the gospel world...
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Rock-and-Roll (7051 words)

	Rock Island District - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Rock Island District (RI) is a commuter rail line operated by Metra from Chicago, Illinois southwest to Joliet.
		The trackage is all owned by Metra, bought from the bankrupt Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railroad for $35 million in December 1982.
		In the early 1890s the line was extended north in conjunction with the expansion of the Chicago Terminal Transfer Railroad, and the portion on 99th was removed.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Rock_Island_District_(Metra) (403 words)

	Rock Island - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Rock Island, a town in Le Flore County, Oklahoma.
		Rock Island, one of five islands that make up Washington Township in Door County, Wisconsin.
		The Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railroad was a railroad which operated in the United States from 1851 to 1980, founded in Rock Island, Illinois.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Rock_Island (142 words)

	Union Pacific Rock Island GP40s
		When the Rock's operations came to an end, all of the 76 locomotives leased from UP (excluding those nine GP40s which had already been retired) were immediately returned to Union Pacific, along with 2,654 cars and 127 cabooses.
		In August 1984, all 51 of the former Rock Island GP40s were formally transferred to MP ownership, although only a maximum of 31 units were ever to receive yellow and gray paint, with 22 of those receiving Missouri Pacific lettering (see the roster for specific unit numbers).
		As the Rock Island units were returned and put into storage, their operating careers slowly, unit by unit, came to an end.
	utahrails.net /webpubs/ri-gp40s.php (2702 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Iowa Citians, fearful that the railroad might not reach their town, then the capitol of the of the state, decided to post a $50,000 bonus to the builders if the line was finished and a train run into the station on or before midnight December 31, 1855.
		As the Rock Island approached its centennial year of 1952, it was a strong railroad, and one of the best in the country.
		The Rock Island entered its third and final bankruptcy in 1975, and despite the best efforts of management and trustee, and the flashy new blue and white "Rock" image, the company could not survive.
	www.trainweb.org /cwmr/ri.html (3252 words)

	OSCN Found Document:WILSON v. CHICAGO, ROCK ISLAND & PACIFIC RAILROAD
		He said that at a point on the road 190 feet from the railroad track there were skid marks extending for 133 feet; that from the point where the skid marks stopped to the point of impact was a distance of 57 feet.
		However, there was no evidence that the loose chat upon the railroad right of way was so thick as to amount to a traffic hazard, and no evidence that it extended over the travelled portion of the road or had any effect at all upon decedent's control of his vehicle.
		136, 64 P.2d 712, the defendant railroad company had permitted its right of way, at a public crossing, to become so impassable from mud and mud holes that the automobile of plaintiff's decedent became mired and was struck by the railroad train.
	www.oscn.net /applications/oscn/DeliverDocument.asp?citeID=37277 (1391 words)

	Rock Island Lines Historical Overview (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		In 1885, the Rock Island purchased the majority of the outstanding stock of the Burlington, Cedar Rapids and Northern Railway.
		The railroad was struck by its clerks in August, 1979, in a wage dispute.
		In early 1980, the bankruptcy court determined that the Rock Island could not be successfully reorganized and ordered the liquidation of the railroad, the largest such liquidation in U.S. history.
	storm.simpson.edu /~RITS/histories/RIHistory.html (3279 words)

	Handbook of Texas Online: CHICAGO, ROCK ISLAND AND PACIFIC RAILROAD (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railroad Company (Rock Island) was chartered in Delaware on December 16, 1947, as successor in reorganization to the Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railway.
		The Rock Island was one of the weaker major railroads, and reentered receivership in 1975.
		Attempts to sell the railroad to a stronger carrier were delayed by regulatory hearings while the financial and physical condition of the Rock Island continued to deteriorate.
	www.tsha.utexas.edu /handbook/online/articles/view/CC/eqc9.html (607 words)

	Chicago School (architecture) - Hutchinson encyclopedia article about Chicago School (architecture) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The Loop is at the centre of Chicago's business district, and is so named after the ‘loop’ defined by the elevated rail track.
		In architecture, 19th-century North American movement, centred in Chicago, which heralded the arrival of the skyscraper with its emphasis on verticality.
		Developing in the wake of the Chicago fire in 1871, which demonstrated the need for alternatives to the traditional exposed cast-iron frame, the school found an early proponent in William Le Baron Jenney (1832–1907), whose Home Insurance building, Chicago, (1883–85), had a metal frame sheathed in brick.
	encyclopedia.farlex.com /Chicago+School+(architecture) (312 words)

	Chicago, Rock Island, & Pacific Railroad Co.
		In 1866, the rail absorbed the Mississippi and Missouri Railroad Co. By the end of the nineteenth century, the railroad owned nearly 3,000 miles of track, most of it in the Midwest.
		The few remaining assets when the company dissolved in 1984 were transferred to the Chicago Pacific Corp., a holding company since purchased by Maytag.
		This entry is part of the Encyclopedia's Dictionary of Leading Chicago Businesses (1820-2000) that was prepared by Mark R. Wilson, with additional contributions from Steven R. Porter and Janice L. Reiff.
	www.encyclopedia.chicagohistory.org /pages/2615.html (263 words)

	Rock Island's Family Tree - Page 3 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Incorporated "to construct a railroad, with all its incidentals, attachments and appurtenances in the States of Kansas, Missouri and Nebraska.
		Purchased Warren and Ouachita Valley Railroad [3/7/1899] on ?/??
		Incorporated "for the purpose of surveying, locating, constructing, operating and maintaining a standard gauge railroad and telegraph line and for the purpose of constructing or leasing, operating and maintaining such branch lines of railroad and telegraph as may be useful and profitable in the prosecution of its business.
	home.covad.net /~scicoatnsew/rihist3.htm (3510 words)

	Rock Island / Great Plains-West Rail Gallery
		The date was October 1st, 1851 when the first spadeful of dirt was turned at Chicago and railroad construction officially was begun on the new Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railroad.
		One year to the day later, a contract was signed between the Nebraska-based Union Pacific and the Chicago, Kansas and Nebraska Railway Company for joint use of the U.P. tracks between Kansas City and North Topeka for a period of 999 years.
		Rock Island GP38-2 #4340 - was among several GP38-2 units acquired by the Missouri Pacific when Rock Island shut down in 1980.
	www.trainweb.org /screamingeagle/gallery/crip.html (973 words)

	Iowa Department of Rail - Iowa Railroad History (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		This railroad later became known as the Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railroad.
		The former Rock Island main line across Iowa from Chicago to Davenport to Council Bluff, Omaha is now operated by the Iowa Interstate Railroad.
		The bankruptcies of the Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railroad and the Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul and Pacific Railroad in the mid 1970s caused the state to lose a significant amount of trackage and service.
	www.iowarail.com /industry/history.asp (488 words)

	Chicago, Rock Island, and Pacific Railroad Company -- Encyclopædia Britannica
		It added Chicago to its route and name in 1863, and in 1927 it was incorporated under its present name.
		Islands are found in oceans, seas, lakes, and rivers.
		This region encompasses the coast of the Pacific Ocean and ranges from tropical islands to the freezing temperatures.
	www.britannica.com /eb/article-9023987 (969 words)

	Rock Island
		On December 1, 1903, the Chicago, Rock Island and Texas, the Chicago, Rock Island and Mexico, and the Choctaw, Oklahoma and Texas were merged into the Chicago, Rock Island and Gulf.
		In 1930 the Chicago, Rock Island and Gulf and the Fort Worth and Denver City Railway Company jointly leased the Burlington-Rock Island between Dallas and Teague, and in 1950 it leased the balance between Teague and Houston.
		Although the Rock Island served fourteen states with nearly 8,000 miles of main track, it was one of the weaker of the major railroads.
	home.austin.rr.com /aldossantos/rock_island.htm (1236 words)

	[No title]
		This reviewer, a surveyor of railroads during student summers (Alaska Railroad in 1949 and 1950, Chicago, Rock Island, and Pacific Railroad in 1951) at a time when surveying was for line improvements and not for original location as in the days of Lincoln and Dodge, enjoyed the story.
		In 1862 when the U.S. Congress offered alternating sections of land for railroad ownership and its own federal bonds against which to borrow money as incentives for private capital to build a Pacific Railroad from Council Bluffs IA to Sacramento CA, there was nothing like this transcontinental railroad in the world.
		There are many too few maps, much too little real understanding of the technology of railroading, writing that slips into the vernacular not just in the quotes but in the text itself, even perhaps one sin of electronic writing by which one paragraph appears at two different places in the story.
	home.att.net /~pfrswr/ambro_00.doc (1072 words)

	Wheat Kings & Pacific
		Rock Island trackage dominates the current and final layout, with the current layout revolving around the railroad's Oklahoma operations.
		The early 1950's were dominated by "maroon, crimson, and aluminum white" colors, with the crimson ending in a stripe down the middle of the diesel locomotives, with "The Rocket" in white, and a fl "Rock Island" underneath on the aluminum white portion of the engine.
		In the period 1967 to 1970, many diesels were re-painted in the maroon/yellow/white paint scheme with "Rock Island" speed lettering.
	wheatkingsandpacific.qazam.com /rockisland.html (533 words)

	History of Peoria County towns
		Alta is situated in Medina township, along the Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railroad.
		It lies along the Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railroad, and is know for its fertile land and its abundant coal supply.
		Princeville is located at the junction between the Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railroad and the Santa Fe Railroad, mostly in Princeville township, but extending into Akron township as well.
	www.just1way.org /Peoria/Maps/townhistory.html (1301 words)

	OSCN Found Document:CHICAGO ROCK ISLAND & PAC. R. CO. v. STATE
		The right of way and tracks of the Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railroad Company run slightly northwest and southeast through the City of Shawnee and where it crosses Kickapoo Street is about 1025 feet wide and has ten tracks extending across Kickapoo Street.
		To the south of the Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific railroad tracks and west of Kickapoo Street is located what is known as Kickapoo Addition, consisting of about six blocks, and immediately south of the Oklahoma City-Ada- Atoka tracks is Englewood Addition, consisting of about forty or forty-two blocks.
		There is no crossing across the Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific tracks west of Beard Street for about one mile, or on the west edge of the City.
	www.oscn.net /applications/oscn/DeliverDocument.asp?citeID=58046 (1407 words)

	University of Arkansas, Fayetteville: Ark. Railroad Depot Collection
		Usually the name of the railroad and the date the depot was photographed are also provided, either on the front of the postcard or handwritten on verso.
		In the descriptions the name of the town (all are in Arkansas) is given first, followed by the name of the railroad and the date of the photograph (when this information has been included on the postcard).
		Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railroad/St. Louis Southwestern Railway.
	libinfo.uark.edu /specialcollections/findingaids/arkrrdepot.html (280 words)

	Council Communication No. 01-410 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Construction of this railroad crossing is necessary to allow traffic to use the new 11th/12th Street Connector which will soon be under construction between MLK Parkway and Cherry Street.
		The Heartland Rail Corporation and its operating subsidiary, Iowa Interstate Railroad, Ltd., currently operates this railroad as a successor in interest to the Chicago Rock Island and Pacific Railroad Company.
		This new pavement, which replaces SW 11th Street, crosses the existing railroad lines within the Vine Street right-of-way, and a new railroad crossing must be constructed on the connector.
	www.ci.des-moines.ia.us /mayor_council/agendas/2001_as/blue/01-410.htm (307 words)

	Rock Island's Family Tree - Page 6 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Rock Island and Peoria Railway Company (RIandP #2) [10/9/1877] sold to Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railway Company (CRIandP #3) [6/2-3/1880] on 6/11/1903.
		Jointly owned by Baltimore and Ohio; Chicago and Eastern Illinois; Chicago, Burlington and Quincy; Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railroad Company (CRIandP #5) [12/16/1947]; Gulf, Mobile and Ohio; Illinois Central; Litchfield and Madison; New York, Chicago and Saint Louis; New York Central; Saint Louis San Francisco; Wabash.
		Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railroad Company (CRIandP #5) [12/16/1947] sold its interest in company to Illinois Central on ~1968.
	home.covad.net /~scicoatnsew/rihist6.htm (4192 words)

	OSCN Found Document:CHICAGO, ROCK ISLAND & PACIFIC RAILROAD v. KINSEY
		It therefore follows that the trial court did not err in permitting the jury to pass upon the question of whether the defendant was guilty of negligence.
		It is an effort to prejudice the jury against the railroad.
		A primary issue in the case, as we pointed out above, was whether the speed at which the train was being operated was excessive where the conductor knew that plaintiff would have but one hand free when he attempted to board the caboose, because he held the packing hook in his other hand.
	www.oscn.net /applications/oscn/DeliverDocument.asp?citeID=32023 (2122 words)

	Historical Society of Pottawattamie County
		The Chicago Rock Island and Pacific Railroad Passenger Depot was constructed in 1899 on the south edge of downtown Council Bluffs and today is operated as a museum and model railroad display.
		The restored depot was originally built in 1899 for the Chicago Rock Island and Pacific Railroad (the "Rock Island"), one of 15 rail lines serving Council Bluffs.
		All railcars displayed outdoors were donated by the Union Pacific Railroad.
	www.thehistoricalsociety.org /Depot.htm (657 words)

	Rock Island's Family Tree - Page 1 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Leased line between Muscatine and Montezuma, Iowa; and branches Thornburg to What Cheer, Iowa; and Iowa Junction to Iowa City, Iowa; from Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railway Company [6/2-3/1880] on ~1915 while the CRIandP was in bankrupcy.
		Purchased twelve-mile line of railroad of between Rock Island and Coal Valley, Illinois, from Coal Valley Mining Company [5/19/1856] on 9/4/1869.
		Sold twelve-mile line of railroad of between Rock Island and Coal Valley, Illinois, to Rock Island and Peoria Railroad Company (RIandP #1) [2/14/1855] on 9/4/1869.
	home.covad.net /~scicoatnsew/rihist1.htm (2615 words)

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