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The
Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railroad (CRI&P RW, sometimes called
Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railway) (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.
