Which railroads bought the Rock Island equipment. Like the Auto Racks.

[JimEager]

Re RI and ROCK autorack dispositions, some RI Whitehead & Kales side-shieled trilevels mounted on TTRX flats went to DT&I. There are photos of two at the DT&I Modeler's site:

http://dti.railfan.net/Pototype_Images/Rolling_Stock/89%27FlatsRacks/89%27FlatAutoRacks.html

ROCK Portec enclosed trilevels ETTX 820260-820299 all went to DTI in 1981 and got GT logos and had their bifold doors replaced with yellow radial doors. They later went to UP.

All of the ROCK Portec shielded and fully enclosed bilevels and trilevels mounted on ROCK flats went to GTW.

[SALfan]

Saw a former RI covered hopper go thru Tallahassee westbound this afternoon.  Paint was worn but decent, angular "R" was still legible.  Good to see a survivor.  I was too far away to see reporting marks.

[Leo_Ames]

Bob-Fryml

Look closely at a Union Pacific 24,000-series bay window caboose and you'll probably see the letters "CRI&P" cast into the truck side frames. After The Rock went belly-up, U.P. acquired many, re-habbed a few, and sold the rest (mostly for scrap).

The re-habbed ex-Rock Island cabooses were wonderful - smooth riding and quiet too. They were noticably better than the "cadillac crummies" (original Union Pacific), specifically the CA-5s CA-9s, and CA-10s.

They were actually always Union Pacific owned. All the survivors technically only were returned to their owner when the Rock folded; UP didn't acquire anything.

http://utahrails.net/caboose/caboose-steel.php#ca-13

Don Strack also has a nice article up about the Rock's GP40's that were leased from Union Pacific.

http://utahrails.net/articles/ri-gp40s.php

[mudchicken]

If you cruise along the ex-CRIP Denver line between Belleville, KS and Limon, CO you will see dozens of 60Ft CRIP Ingram Blue or Primer Red/Brown boxcars that have come home to roost on the Kyle (G&W) for bean service. It's been interesting to see what's hiding in the backtracks at each station with NOKL and Kyle reporting marks. (The is absolutely no way everything labelled NOKL could fit into the surviving tracks at Woodward, OK.)