The Oklahoma & Kansas Railroad, LLC (OKRL), a subsidiary of the Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific Railroad, LCC (Rock Island), will lease and operate approximately 37.26 miles of rail line owned by the ...

Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railroad. Share full article. June 4, 1869. Credit... The New York Times Archives. See the article in its original context from June 4, 1869, Page 1 Buy Reprints.

At a meeting of the Directors of the Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railroad Company, held at Davenport, Iowa, yesterday, several resignations were accepted and the vacancies filed.

In 1887, it was said that the Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific Railroad was the last major railroad to enter Nebraska, but at that time it was considerably south of Lincoln. Still, in 1889, a ...

Before they got together, both Chicago Pacific Corp. and Harvey Kapnick were more or less on the scrap heap.When the Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railroad emerged from a court-ordered ...

A train pulling executive coaches from the Iowa Interstate Railroad pulls up to the old Rock Island line train depot Tuesday, May 5, 2009 in Iowa City. (Brian Ray/The Gazette) The Union Pacific ...

On April 3, neighbors supporting building a landscaped greenway down the old Rock Island railroad right of way gathered at the City Yard. Among those briefing the neighbors were city parks ...

This is what happens when a railroad has more resourcefulness than resources. ... the Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific RR, simply added a roof, two doors, and five tiny windows to an aging boxcar.

Built in 1905, the 702-foot Rock Island Bridge once carried livestock over the river as part of the Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railway. It was decommissioned in the early 1970s.

The Vale Tunnel is a railway tunnel south of Raytown, near Kansas City, Missouri. It was built by the Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific railroad in 1903-04, and was the final tunnel of four to be ...

The construction of the railroad that was to become the Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railroad began in 1851 at the southern limits of Chicago. The line reached Joliet by October 1852. A gaily ...