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According to Wikipedia, The originalChicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railroad(CRI&P RW, sometimes calledChicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railway)[1](reporting marksCRI&P,RI,ROCK) was an AmericanClass I railroad. It was also known as theRock 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 formerBurlington-Rock Island Railroad.)The Rock Island Railroad ended passenger service in 1980.Popular
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