The Chicago, Rock Island, and Pacific Railroad (CRI&P RW, sometimes called Chicago, Rock Island, and Pacific Railway) (reporting marks CRIP, RI, ROCK) was a Class I railroad in the United States. It was also known as the Rock Island Line, or, in its final years, The Rock.
At the end of 1970, it operated 7,185 miles of road on 10,670 miles of track; that year it reported 20,555 million ton-miles of revenue freight and 120 million passenger-miles. (Those totals may or may not include the former Burlington-Rock Island Railroad.)
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MoreThe Chicago, Rock Island, and Pacific Railroad (CRI&P RW, sometimes called Chicago, Rock Island, and Pacific Railway) (reporting marks CRIP, RI, ROCK) was a Class I railroad in the United States. It was also known as the Rock Island Line, or, in its final years, The Rock.
At the end of 1970, it operated 7,185 miles of road on 10,670 miles of track; that year it reported 20,555 million ton-miles of revenue freight and 120 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.
Subject ID: 13282
Subject ID: 13282