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EL 1223
Title:  EL 1223
Description:  EL 1223
Photo Date:  8/12/1978  Upload Date: 10/7/2018 8:24:26 PM
Location:  Silvis, IL
Author:  J Fischer
Categories:  Roster,Yard
Locomotives:  EL 1223(GP7)
Views:  324   Comments: 1
EL 1216
Title:  EL 1216
Description:  EL 1216
Photo Date:  8/12/1978  Upload Date: 10/7/2018 8:24:57 PM
Location:  Silvis, IL
Author:  J Fischer
Categories:  Roster,Yard
Locomotives:  EL 1216(GP7)
Views:  282   Comments: 1
EL 1207
Title:  EL 1207
Description:  EL 1207
Photo Date:  8/12/1978  Upload Date: 10/7/2018 8:25:30 PM
Location:  Silvis, IL
Author:  J Fischer
Categories:  Roster,Yard
Locomotives:  EL 1207(GP7)
Views:  296   Comments: 1
CRIP 1337
Title:  CRIP 1337
Description:  CRIP 1337
Photo Date:  8/12/1978  Upload Date: 10/7/2018 8:32:19 PM
Location:  Silvis, IL
Author:  J Fischer
Categories:  Roster,Yard
Locomotives:  CRIP 1337(GP18)
Views:  661   Comments: 1
CRIP 675
Title:  CRIP 675
Description:  CRIP 675
Photo Date:  8/12/1978  Upload Date: 10/7/2018 8:32:46 PM
Location:  Silvis, IL
Author:  J Fischer
Categories:  Roster,Yard
Locomotives:  CRIP 675(F7A)
Views:  410   Comments: 1
CRIP 4523
Title:  CRIP 4523
Description:  CRIP 4523, The Rock
Photo Date:  8/12/1978  Upload Date: 10/7/2018 8:33:17 PM
Location:  Silvis, IL
Author:  J Fischer
Categories:  Roster,Yard
Locomotives:  CRIP 4523(GP7R) CRIP 4597(U30C)
Views:  415   Comments: 1
UP 229582
Title:  UP 229582
Description: 
Photo Date:  8/15/1978  Upload Date: 10/20/2013 6:11:16 PM
Location:  Silvis, IL
Author:  Noel Stoutenburg
Categories:  Roster,RollingStock,Yard
Locomotives: 
Views:  320   Comments: 0
UP 259560
Title:  UP 259560
Description: 
Photo Date:  8/15/1978  Upload Date: 10/20/2013 6:11:20 PM
Location:  Silvis, IL
Author:  Noel Stoutenburg
Categories:  Roster,RollingStock,Yard
Locomotives: 
Views:  353   Comments: 0
UP 229587
Title:  UP 229587
Description: 
Photo Date:  8/15/1978  Upload Date: 10/20/2013 6:11:26 PM
Location:  Silvis, IL
Author:  Noel Stoutenburg
Categories:  Roster,RollingStock,Yard
Locomotives: 
Views:  177   Comments: 0
UP 259560
Title:  UP 259560
Description: 
Photo Date:  8/15/1978  Upload Date: 10/20/2013 6:11:30 PM
Location:  Silvis, IL
Author:  Noel Stoutenburg
Categories:  Roster,RollingStock,Yard
Locomotives: 
Views:  202   Comments: 0
UP 259560
Title:  UP 259560
Description: 
Photo Date:  8/15/1978  Upload Date: 10/20/2013 6:11:34 PM
Location:  Silvis, IL
Author:  Noel Stoutenburg
Categories:  Roster,RollingStock,Yard
Locomotives: 
Views:  115   Comments: 0
UP 229582
Title:  UP 229582
Description: 
Photo Date:  8/15/1978  Upload Date: 10/20/2013 6:11:39 PM
Location:  Silvis, IL
Author:  Noel Stoutenburg
Categories:  Roster,RollingStock,Yard
Locomotives: 
Views:  174   Comments: 0
RI 95580
Title:  RI 95580
Description: 
Photo Date:  8/15/1978  Upload Date: 10/20/2013 6:11:42 PM
Location:  Silvis, IL
Author:  Noel Stoutenburg
Categories:  Roster,RollingStock,Yard
Locomotives: 
Views:  160   Comments: 0
UP 215373
Title:  UP 215373
Description: 
Photo Date:  8/15/1978  Upload Date: 10/20/2013 6:11:46 PM
Location:  Silvis, IL
Author:  Noel Stoutenburg
Categories:  Roster,RollingStock,Yard
Locomotives: 
Views:  199   Comments: 0
CRIP 298
Title:  CRIP 298
Description:  CRIP 298
Photo Date:  9/15/1978  Upload Date: 9/4/2024 7:05:28 PM
Location:  Silvis, IL
Author:  George R Cockle
Categories:  Roster,Yard
Locomotives:  CRIP 298(U33B) CRIP 390(GP40)
Views:  90   Comments: 0
RI 816
Title:  RI 816
Description: 
Photo Date:  1/1/1979  Upload Date: 4/7/2013 7:37:03 PM
Location:  Silvis, IL
Author:  Mitch Cline
Categories:  Roster
Locomotives:  CRIP 816(SW8) CRIP 823(SW8)
Views:  821   Comments: 0
Reflections on the Rock
Title:  Reflections on the Rock
Description:  F7A 675 reflected in the pond.
Photo Date:  5/15/1979  Upload Date: 7/24/2012 10:55:29 PM
Location:  Silvis, IL
Author:  Martin OToole
Categories:  Night,Yard
Locomotives:  CRIP 675(F7A)
Views:  472   Comments: 1
CRIP 4511
Title:  CRIP 4511
Description: 
Photo Date:  7/11/1979  Upload Date: 3/24/2005 11:01:00 AM
Location:  Silvis, IL
Author: 
Categories: 
Locomotives:  CRIP 4511(GP7R)
Views:  982   Comments: 1
CRIP 947
Title:  CRIP 947
Description: 
Photo Date:  8/20/1979  Upload Date: 1/14/2018 2:30:19 PM
Location:  Silvis, IL
Author:  Five Prime
Categories: 
Locomotives:  CRIP 947(SW1500)
Views:  706   Comments: 1
CRIP 295
Title:  CRIP 295
Description:  CRIP 295
Photo Date:  12/2/1979  Upload Date: 9/4/2024 6:59:35 PM
Location:  Silvis, IL
Author:  J Fischer collection
Categories:  Roster,Yard
Locomotives:  CRIP 295(U33B)
Views:  55   Comments: 0
CRIP 296
Title:  CRIP 296
Description:  CRIP 296
Photo Date:  3/21/1980  Upload Date: 9/4/2024 7:00:17 PM
Location:  Silvis, IL
Author:  Gary L Powell
Categories:  Roster,Yard
Locomotives:  CRIP 296(U33B)
Views:  64   Comments: 0
Motorcars
Title:  Motorcars
Description:  Not only were locomotives from all over the Rock Island brought in to Silvis for disposition but every motorcar from section houses fanning out for a hundred miles in all directions from Silvis were also brought in for sale (date not exact)
Photo Date:  4/7/1980  Upload Date: 8/11/2006 1:36:07 PM
Location:  Silvis, IL
Author:  Rob Kitchen
Categories: 
Locomotives: 
Views:  1124   Comments: 1
Motorcars
Title:  Motorcars
Description:  Not only were locomotives from all over the Rock Island brought in to Silvis for disposition but every motorcar from section houses fanning out for a hundred miles in all directions from Silvis were also brought in for sale (date not exact)
Photo Date:  4/7/1980  Upload Date: 8/11/2006 1:36:08 PM
Location:  Silvis, IL
Author:  Rob Kitchen
Categories: 
Locomotives: 
Views:  1000   Comments: 2
Motorcars
Title:  Motorcars
Description:  Not only were locomotives from all over the Rock Island brought in to Silvis for disposition but every motorcar from section houses fanning out for a hundred miles in all directions from Silvis were also brought in for sale (date not exact)
Photo Date:  4/7/1980  Upload Date: 8/11/2006 1:36:06 PM
Location:  Silvis, IL
Author:  Rob Kitchen
Categories: 
Locomotives: 
Views:  2075   Comments: 2
Rock Island Graveyard
Title:  Rock Island Graveyard
Description: 
Photo Date:  9/15/1980  Upload Date: 8/4/2010 11:32:27 PM
Location:  Silvis, IL
Author:  John Lameck
Categories:  Yard
Locomotives:  CRIP 4451(GP7R)
Views:  1025   Comments: 2
Rock Island Graveyard
Title:  Rock Island Graveyard
Description: 
Photo Date:  9/15/1980  Upload Date: 8/4/2010 11:32:01 PM
Location:  Silvis, IL
Author:  John Lameck
Categories: 
Locomotives: 
Views:  496   Comments: 2
Rock Island Graveyard
Title:  Rock Island Graveyard
Description: 
Photo Date:  9/15/1980  Upload Date: 8/4/2010 11:31:36 PM
Location:  Silvis, IL
Author:  John Lameck
Categories: 
Locomotives:  CRIP 4545(GP7R) CRIP 4467(GP7R)
Views:  1351   Comments: 1
Rock Island Graveyard
Title:  Rock Island Graveyard
Description: 
Photo Date:  9/15/1980  Upload Date: 8/4/2010 11:30:44 PM
Location:  Silvis, IL
Author:  John Lameck
Categories: 
Locomotives:  CRIP 4451(GP7R)
Views:  660   Comments: 0
Rock Island for sale
Title:  Rock Island for sale
Description:  Date Unknown
Photo Date:  10/1/1980  Upload Date: 6/15/2010 6:49:16 PM
Location:  Silvis, IL
Author:  Mike Cunningham
Categories:  Yard
Locomotives: 
Views:  1109   Comments: 1
Post-shutdown
Title:  Post-shutdown
Description: 
Photo Date:  11/1/1980  Upload Date: 2/4/2014 2:58:27 PM
Location:  Silvis, IL
Author:  Ken Carlson
Categories: 
Locomotives:  CRIP 4506(GP7R) CRIP 4454(GP7R) CRIP 4463(GP7R)
Views:  2039   Comments: 0
CRIP Road Slug 284
Title:  CRIP Road Slug 284
Description: 
Photo Date:  12/10/1980  Upload Date: 4/10/2005 10:06:44 AM
Location:  Silvis, IL
Author:  Ron Keller
Categories: 
Locomotives:  CRIP 284(Yard Slug)
Views:  1795   Comments: 2
CRIP 416
Title:  CRIP 416
Description:  Probably cheating by putting this one in a switcher album. Dont know if Rock Island used these primarily for yard duty or what, though thats likely not what Alco intended. Abyway, gts a pretty cool loco so I included it. Here it is one of the hundreds of dead units awaiting their fate at Silvis.
Photo Date:  12/29/1980  Upload Date: 11/27/2012 3:04:32 PM
Location:  Silvis, IL
Author:  TS _Illinois
Categories: 
Locomotives:  CRIP 416(C415)
Views:  646   Comments: 0
CRIP 4530
Title:  CRIP 4530
Description: 
Photo Date:  1/24/1981  Upload Date: 11/27/2010 11:44:47 PM
Location:  Silvis, IL
Author:  Ken Kessler
Categories: 
Locomotives:  CRIP 4530(GP7R)
Views:  515   Comments: 0
Rock 816
Title:  Rock 816
Description:  Rock 816 awaits disposition a year after shutdown
Photo Date:  4/11/1981  Upload Date: 2/6/2005 6:31:48 PM
Location:  Silvis, IL
Author:  James Mischke
Categories: 
Locomotives:  CRIP 816(SW8)
Views:  1227   Comments: 1
Rock Island #533
Title:  Rock Island #533
Description:  Scanned from a print I took. Setting at Chrome Crankshaft with several sister engines a year after the RI shut down.
Photo Date:  5/13/1981  Upload Date: 2/2/2025 2:43:23 PM
Location:  Silvis, IL
Author:  Rich Varner
Categories:  Roster
Locomotives:  CRIP 533(SW1)
Views:  25   Comments: 0
RI Slugs
Title:  RI Slugs
Description:  Pride of Armoudale
Photo Date:  8/11/1981  Upload Date: 4/7/2013 7:30:49 PM
Location:  Silvis, IL
Author:  Mitch Cline
Categories:  Roster
Locomotives:  CRIP 999(Yard Slug) CRIP 998(Yard Slug)
Views:  942   Comments: 1
Rock E's
Title:  Rock E's
Description:  Took this at Silvis yard before I was asked to leave.
Photo Date:  8/11/1981  Upload Date: 4/7/2013 7:32:10 PM
Location:  Silvis, IL
Author:  Mitch Cline
Categories:  Yard
Locomotives:  CRIP 652(E8A)
Views:  646   Comments: 0
RI 2
Title:  RI 2
Description:  Found my way to Silvis Yard after the shutdown. I was able to take some photos before I was asked to leave.
Photo Date:  8/11/1981  Upload Date: 3/20/2013 10:19:37 PM
Location:  Silvis, IL
Author:  Mitch Cline
Categories:  Roster
Locomotives:  CRIP 2(LWT-12)
Views:  1134   Comments: 1
RI 287
Title:  RI 287
Description:  Took this at Silvis yard before I was asked to leave.
Photo Date:  8/11/1981  Upload Date: 4/7/2013 7:34:05 PM
Location:  Silvis, IL
Author:  Mitch Cline
Categories:  Roster
Locomotives:  CRIP 287(U33B)
Views:  942   Comments: 2
RI 290
Title:  RI 290
Description:  Took this at Silvis yard before I was asked to leave.
Photo Date:  8/11/1981  Upload Date: 4/7/2013 7:35:42 PM
Location:  Silvis, IL
Author:  Mitch Cline
Categories:  Roster
Locomotives:  CRIP 290(U33B) CRIP 292(U33B)
Views:  1122   Comments: 1
RI 415-416
Title:  RI 415-416
Description:  Found my way to Silvis Yard after the shutdown. I was able to take some photos before I was asked to leave.
Photo Date:  8/11/1981  Upload Date: 3/20/2013 10:16:44 PM
Location:  Silvis, IL
Author:  Mitch Cline
Categories:  Roster
Locomotives:  CRIP 415(C415) CRIP 416(C415)
Views:  1199   Comments: 2
RI Bicentennial 652
Title:  RI Bicentennial 652
Description:  Found my way to Silvis Yard after the shutdown. I was able to take some photos before I was asked to leave.
Photo Date:  8/11/1981  Upload Date: 3/20/2013 10:25:39 PM
Location:  Silvis, IL
Author:  Mitch Cline
Categories:  Roster
Locomotives:  CRIP 652(E8A)
Views:  773   Comments: 0
RI BAGGAGE CAR
Title:  RI BAGGAGE CAR
Description:  Took this at Silvis Yard before I was asked to leave.
Photo Date:  8/11/1981  Upload Date: 4/7/2013 7:38:21 PM
Location:  Silvis, IL
Author:  Mitch Cline
Categories: 
Locomotives: 
Views:  265   Comments: 1
F&P SW1500 1504
Title:  F&P SW1500 1504
Description:  Fordyce & Princeton Railroad SW1500 1504 at Silvis, Illinois on February 20, 1982, Kodachrome by Gib Allbach, Chuck Zeiler collection.
Photo Date:  2/20/1982  Upload Date: 5/22/2013 2:43:57 PM
Location:  Silvis, IL
Author:  Gib Allbach
Categories:  Roster
Locomotives:  FP 1504(SW1500)
Views:  566   Comments: 0
Chrome Crankshaft Leasing 1338
Title:  Chrome Crankshaft Leasing 1338
Description:  Gary Powell slide. Chrome 1338 is ex Rock Island 1338 leased!to the Tradewater Railroad.
Photo Date:  6/1/1982  Upload Date: 3/2/2017 1:17:08 PM
Location:  Silvis, IL
Author:  Richard Kundert
Categories:  Roster
Locomotives:  CCL 1338(GP18)
Views:  570   Comments: 0
BN 4366
Title:  BN 4366
Description:  The former SPS 340 is now BN4366 in this shot,taken at Silvis,IL in October 1982.
Photo Date:  10/23/1982  Upload Date: 10/1/2024 12:54:12 PM
Location:  Silvis, IL
Author:  Hugh Blaney
Categories: 
Locomotives:  BN 4366(C636)
Views:  59   Comments: 0
RI 193
Title:  RI 193
Description:  Actual day unknown
Photo Date:  3/1/1983  Upload Date: 7/24/2023 10:07:50 AM
Location:  Silvis, IL
Author:  Alan Gaines
Categories: 
Locomotives:  CRIP 193(U33B)
Views:  186   Comments: 0
RI 192
Title:  RI 192
Description: 
Photo Date:  3/27/1983  Upload Date: 1/22/2025 11:07:56 AM
Location:  Silvis, IL
Author:  Alan Gaines
Categories: 
Locomotives:  CRIP 192(U33B)
Views:  32   Comments: 0
RI 197
Title:  RI 197
Description: 
Photo Date:  3/27/1983  Upload Date: 1/22/2025 11:08:30 AM
Location:  Silvis, IL
Author:  Alan Gaines
Categories: 
Locomotives:  CRIP 197(U33B)
Views:  32   Comments: 0
Refurbished GP38
Title:  Refurbished GP38
Description: 
Photo Date:  4/30/1983  Upload Date: 3/6/2010 1:41:54 PM
Location:  Silvis, IL
Author:  Mark Singer
Categories:  Roster
Locomotives:  UNKNOWN GP38(GP38)
Views:  756   Comments: 0


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