| Rock Island E7 640 at Blue Island, Illinois on an unknown day in October 1979, Kodachrome by Chuck Zeiler. Number 640 was built in February 1948 ( c/n 3736 ) on EMD Order E712. By the date of this photo, the Rock Island no longer operated trains, the commuter operations had been taken over by the Regional Transportation Authority, which replaced these E units with F40PH's, and the freight operations were operated by the Kansas City Terminal, as directed by the ICC. |