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memphis offered little hope or help for rock island. its yard was stub end and opened off a track classified as an L&N yard track. further, the only entry switch into the RI yard faced east--yes, east. this meant RI arrivals had to pass beyond the switch and be pulled in by a yard eng. departing the train was built with road power at the stub end and the train was pulled out of the yard by a switch eng. then on its westward way it had to get by the entry wye into union station for MoP, Southern and L&N. Less than a mile farther west, it crossed the IC and the wyes into central station used by RI and Frisco and through traffic of the IC. the river bridge was shared with MoP and SSW. SSW used the RI track from brinkley, ark, 70 miles west and had three times as many freight trains as RI perhaps. L&N passenger trains and its SSW connecting freight also used that yard track restricting access to the RI yard at times.
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