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Find out which of the Rock Island Rocket passenger trains held the fitting “Rocket” name and where they went into the history books.

For 126 years, the words "Rock Island" meant more than just a city. They were the common name of a railroad, and those words were carried in large white lettering on locomotives and on the company's ...

I sat on the hard, wooden bench beneath the window of the Rock Island locomotive as my uncle, Jim Fowler, pushed the throttle forward. He sat on the other side of the locomotive from me as he grasped ...