Back Rheilffordd Chicago, Rock Island a Pacific Welsh Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railroad German Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railroad French Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railroad ID Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railroad Italian シカゴ・ロック・アイランド・アンド・パシフィック鉄道 Japanese Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railroad Portuguese 芝加哥、岩島和太平洋鐵路 Chinese
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 The Rock Island System in 1965. | |
| Overview | |
|---|---|
| Headquarters | Chicago, Illinois |
| Reporting mark | CRI&P, RI, ROCK |
| Locale | Arkansas, Colorado, Illinois, Iowa, Kansas, Louisiana, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, New Mexico, Oklahoma, South Dakota, Tennessee, and Texas |
| Dates of operation | October 10, 1852–March 31, 1980 |
| Successor | |
| Technical | |
| Track gauge | 4 ft 8+1⁄2 in (1,435 mm) standard gauge |
The original Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railroad (CRI&P RW, sometimes called Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railway)[1] (reporting marks CRI&P, 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.
- ^ "Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railway". digital.library.okstate.edu. Archived from the original on July 31, 2010. Retrieved January 17, 2022.