Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railroad

Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railroad
	The Rock Island System in 1965.
Overview
Headquarters	Chicago, Illinois
Reporting mark	CRIP, RI, ROCK
Locale	Arkansas, Colorado, Illinois, Iowa, Kansas, Louisiana, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, New Mexico, Oklahoma, South Dakota, Tennessee, and Texas
Dates of operation	October 10, 1852–March 31, 1980
Successor	List CSX Transportation Chicago Pacific Corporation; Union Pacific Railroad; Iowa Interstate Railroad; Missouri Pacific Railroad; Chicago and North Western; Metra Commuter Rail; Burlington Northern Railroad; Southern Pacific Railroad; Missouri–Kansas–Texas Railroad; Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway; Kyle Railroad ;
Technical
Track gauge	4 ft 8+1⁄2 in (1,435 mm) standard gauge

The original Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railroad (CRI&P RW, sometimes called Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railway)^[1] (reporting marks CRIP, RI, ROCK) was an American Class I railroad. It was also known as the Rock Island Line, or, in its final years, The Rock.

At the end of 1970, it operated 7,183 miles of road on 10,669 miles of track; that year it reported 20,557 million ton-miles of revenue freight and 118 million passenger miles. (Those totals may or may not include the former Burlington-Rock Island Railroad.)

The song "Rock Island Line", a spiritual from the late 1920s first recorded in 1934, was inspired by the railway.

^ "Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railway". digital.library.okstate.edu. Archived from the original on July 31, 2010. Retrieved January 17, 2022.

[1] "Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railway". digital.library.okstate.edu. Archived from the original on July 31, 2010. Retrieved January 17, 2022.

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