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Six years later, the Rock Island would go bust!

Excellent read, thank you.

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Watched it pull out of Fort Worth

I photographed some of that wreck while the Cab unit was still on its side. It was hauled to Cleburne and entered their CF-7 program there and emerged as a new CF-7!

Wow. I think the Seaboard Air Line (SAL) RR subsequently acquired at least a couple of the E-8's and used them on the Silver Comet. They may have remained in Katy livery for a year or so -- there should be some photos of them at the station in Atlanta (where "Katy" would look a bit out of place).

I was there that day, throwing Alka-Seltzer tablets to The pigeons at the top of the grain elevator. I had nothing better to do. Unfortunately, I received a heavy dose of frostbite to the bung-ho. But I'll never forget that day in 1978.

Great footage!

I miss them they were taken by the tornado😢

0:06 when did the Katy start repainting their heavyweights completely red? I don't see this particular paint scheme as often.

Thank you, for this video. I found the articles in the SP Bulletin very interesting. The article on page 22 about Rebuilding the Past somewhat personal. I purchased a signed Pencil and Ink Print of the Depot; this was one of the ways to help with the cost of the project This print has been with me thru numerous moves for almost forty years and still get compliments on how good it looks.

1:15 Are those the Magnolia Silos near the Waco station? They really would have been silos back then.

My fav wheeler switcher 0-6-0 steam trains

Very nice. Thanks!

I grew up in Ola. I remember the station much larger as well.

Shame it couldn't keep going. I'm an operating volunteer at the Illinois Railway Museum, and we have an original Rock Island geep in our collection. When it came time to repaint it from the CNW colors it arrived in, our superintendent, who started out as a dispatcher and tower operator on the Rock toward the very end, figured we could have some fun and paint it blue and white.

Wish this had better resolution in order to be able to read it...but great stuff anyhow...thanks for posting! I have a Katy employees' magazine around here, someplace... ...and some other Katy stuff....

Just now finding your channel (I'm always late to the party it seems) but I thought I'd take a moment to tell you how grateful I am for the video you posted. Been a train fan all my life as well as a life long Texan. Love the Katy. I run Lionels as a hobby in retirement and even thought there's not that much out there, I run as much MKT as I can, freight and Texas Special. As far as road names go, Lionel is obsessed with the NYC, AT&SF, and anything they can slap "Pennsylvania Flyer" on. Ugh. Keep up the good work, keep the Texas Rails rolling!

Did you by chance film any North Central Texas Railroad movements, locomotives or rolling stock? I’ve only found a few items on the WBAP/KXAS UNT news archives website.

Thanks Dillon for the information at the museum today. I really enjoyed this video. I did not know about it.

Fantastic post. Valuable info in this publication.

Wow! This took me the longest time to watch one of your videos, I read the whole magazine. Love the Question-and-Answer sections and the Safe Crackers, Hard Hat articles were excellent. How about that railroad clothing article with connections to Ft Worth. Thank you.

great slides👍👍somthing beautiful and melancholy about the " newly" abandoned rock 😞

There is a modern Katy coach at the Austin Stream Train. It is in regular service! I got to hop on Amtrak's Eagle someday and ride it.

Great to see all those baggage cars with mail and packages. GM saw them too. And lobbied the government to put it on trucks. That bankrupted the private passenger rail system. All of it Oct 1967. Slow expensive trucks. Now De joy that owns XPO Trucking a Trump appointee is getting that mail on his trucks. From the cut back Post Office with jacked up rates.

Shots after GM got the mail and express put on their trucks. Today's it's XPO De Joy's trucks. Slow and expensive. Air Mail even gone De Joy got rid of it . It's all his trucks! Postage jacked up again and again too. Services cut cut cut.

I was directed here by Frank Schulz from a You Tube video discussing Central Expressway in DFW. If that's the same Frank that I met while working at Bobbye Hall's in Dallas, well LTNS! I worked on the R/C side and drove the old r/w '56 Chevy.

Very sad the Rock had to shut down what a great railway.

When I lived in Pratt, KS for a short time in 1995, I was allowed multiple times inside the depot… Back then, I could walk in & as for a lineup so I knew what SP power and trains were coming… Those good ole’ days, like the Pratt depot are long gone😢

I’m impressed with the MKT MP15s on the Waxie Local! I’ve only experienced GP38-2s and GP39-2s working that line.

Thats the Georgetown Railroad business car passenger special. Most of those cars are stored in Georgetown. The observation car is on display in Georgetown at the GREX offices. It’s ex-Katy.

Happy New Year! and thank you for all of last year's videos.

It isn't easy to compensate for poor exposure, but this turned out good. I prefer to err on the underexposed side so the image doesn't look so washed. It's great to see the Blackhawk Films name again. They used to have quite the big catalog of offerings & a little bit of everything for everyone. Hope you had a good Christmas & have great New Year!! Regards!

The sound effects worked perfectly. 👍👍

Great B-RI JTD action! Blizzard of ‘78 timeframe.

Outstanding!

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It cool because 9000 up. Big boy 4014 up. 3450 ATSF. 2 OHTR Co. and Sunkist and 3.United States posts . 5021 sp. and the world biggest diesel all restored at La county fair at rail giants train museum big boy was removed and replaced with a diesel but 4014 got restored it still open to this day and all the diesel and steam still get repairs at the museum

Many of you may not know this, but a original CRI&P Pullman Bilevel still serves on her home rails. Metra 7869 was built for the Rock in 1970, she served in regular commuter service into the RTA well after CRI&P went under. A few years ago CRI&P 7869 was rebuilt into a bike car with her lower level being solely space for bikes and her upper level for the riders. The Rock will always live on, CRI&P 7869 is that beating heart of the former Rock Island.

Aft 610 in 1975

AFT 610 blows it's t&p Hancock 3 chime whistle

Aft 610 goes to chattanooga tn

Aft 610 going to texas

Aft 610 está soando o t&p Hancock 3 chime whistle igual a voz da vovó Mari

Texas and pacific 610 painted red white & blue

Was this engine an SP/T&NO switcher at some point? Seems to follow a lot of SP standards, especially the sausage tender.

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Super. 💙 T.E.N.

In the mid 1950s I would sometimes go to work with my Dad on Saturdays. He worked in downtown Dallas and it was a special day to see #7 working and going over the triple overpass as he drove to work. I was around 8 years old then and Dad would always drive as slow as possible so I could get a good look. I had Lionel trains back then and my Dad shared his love for trains as he enjoyed the trains big and small, as much as I did. I was very fortunate to find an individual selling off his HO train collection in February of this year. After talking a bit he mentioned he had a builder modify a brass SP 0-6-0 switcher to match the #7 used at the Union Terminal in Dallas. He asked me if I had any interest in such a loco. After he heard my childhood stories and love for the #7, he said he would sell it to me as he wanted it to go to someone who had a love for this loco. He had well over $800 invested in this project and that did not include the original price of the brass loco. The loco has DCC & sound and runs (and looks) great. I got it for way less than his investment just because he was glad to see it go to a good home. I still have a soft spot for an 0-6-0 loco today and have several for my layout. Before the #7 was moved to Frisco Texas, I would go to the fair grounds in Dallas and take photos of it there and I must have 60 or so photos in my file. The memories of the #7 and the good times with my Dad are very special now.