[RITSlist] Rock Island Southern

[Norm Metcalf]

No, the RIS didn't go to Macomb.  Macomb had a would-be interurban, the 
Macomb, Industry & Littleton.
>    Norm Metcalf, Boulder Colorado
>
> todd p wrote:
>>   Also the RIS went to Macomb? I know it went to Monmouth and then to 
>> Galesburg. At Cameron the line would be to the north of the BN line 
>> there.You can still see the ROW where it runs under the transon.
>>   The RIS also had the RI&MC on it from Rok Island out to Sherrard 
>> Premption area.My grandfather remebers as  a kid making the conductor 
>> on the line( who rode the cab of the steam engine as there was no 
>> caboose on this local) so mad that he would throw lumps of coal at 
>> the kids taunting him.To which they would then pick up and run home 
>> with.
>>   I know there is a small yahoo group on the RIS and a book on the 
>> RI&P that goes into some details.
>> --- On Tue, 5/6/08, trainboy03 at mchsi.com <trainboy03 at mchsi.com> wrote:
>>
>>  
>>> From: trainboy03 at mchsi.com <trainboy03 at mchsi.com>
>>> Subject: Re: [RITSlist] Rock Island Southern
>>> To: ritslist at simpson.edu
>>> Date: Tuesday, May 6, 2008, 7:38 PM
>>> The Iowa Interstate still operates over the Rock Island
>>> Southern from Rock Island, through Milan, along Andalusia Road, and 
>>> ends at
>>> the new Steel Warehouse in the Rock Island Industrial Park, just 
>>> west of
>>> the Centennial Expressway/Milan Beltway.  The far west end of the 
>>> branch
>>> sat dormant for many years until the track was rebuilt by the IAIS 
>>> to access the
>>> Steel Warehouse.  Its now one of the largest customers on the 
>>> branch, seeing
>>> service just about all five days a week the IAIS job runs down the 
>>> branch.
>>>
>>> The Milan Depot still stands today and is home to the
>>> Whistle Stop Java Shop coffee house.
>>>
>>> -- 
>>> Erik Rasmussen
>>> Coal Valley, IL
>>>
>>>
>>> ----------------------  Original Message: ---------------------
>>> From:    jpslhedgpeth at aol.com
>>> To:      ritslist at simpson.edu
>>> Subject: Re: [RITSlist] Rock Island Southern
>>> Date:    Tue, 6 May 2008 15:26:24 +0000
>>>
>>>    
>>>> The remains of the Rock Island Southern is now what is
>>>>       
>>> known as the MILAN BRANCH    
>>>> running from just west of the depot at Rock Island
>>>>       
>>> southeast to Milan (depot is    
>>>> still there) and along ANdalusia Road (HWY 92).?
>>>> We rehabed the far end of the line in the mid 70's
>>>>       
>>> for the Rock Island    
>>>> industrial park, but I don't think they ever had a
>>>>       
>>> rail customer there and the    
>>>> track is back out now, at least into the RI Industrial
>>>>       
>>> park.
>>>    
>>>> The line curved south just beyond what is now the end
>>>>       
>>> and extended on to    
>>>> Sherrard, Ransom, CAble (put those names together and
>>>>       
>>> you get a prize for Rock    
>>>> Island history) and ultimately ended up at
>>>>       
>>> Galesburg...It was at one time, maybe    
>>>> to the end electric.
>>>>
>>>> All of the above is subject to correction by someone
>>>>       
>>> who really knows something    
>>>> about it.
>>>>
>>>> Pete
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> -----Original Message-----
>>>> From: celestialgardens at netzero.net
>>>>       
>>> <celestialgardens at netzero.net>
>>>    
>>>> To: weezride at aol.com
>>>> Cc: ritslist at simpson.edu
>>>> Sent: Tue, 6 May 2008 8:56 am
>>>> Subject: Re: [RITSlist] (no subject)
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Rock Island Southern was a both steam and electric
>>>>       
>>> shortline that ran south out    
>>>> of Rock Island, Illinois, intil the late thirties.? No
>>>>       
>>> relation to our Rock    
>>>> Island Lines except to interchange traffic.? Jim
>>>>       
>>> Neubauer     
>
>



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