Wednesday Jan 30 2008
Northbound at Kingfisher
Today’s spin of the wheel brings us a slide from March 21st in 1976 as we see a northbound Rock Island freight train passing through Kingfisher, Oklahoma. The power is a diverse mix of two SD40-2’s, a U28B and a GP7.
After the breakup of the Rock Island in the early 1980’s, all ten SD40-2’s went to the Illinois Central Gulf. What was the Rock’s Southern Region Subdivision 25 between Caldwell, Kansas and El Reno, Oklahoma is today part of the Union Pacific’s Enid Subdivision.
