TheTrustee of the bankrupt Rock Island Railroad held an auction at Biddle Yard in Little Rock, Arkansas on July 12, 1980. They auctioned off things like typewriters, adding machines, filing cabinets, desks (including a few rolling-cover desks), chairs, a variety of shop tools and station signs, two former Rock Island commuter cars, and a stainless-steel Rock Island RPO car.  I was there and took some slides of buildings and rolling stock including the Rock Island RPO car. Also a photo of Missouri Pacific locomotives 1849 and 1893.  I recently found some of the slides and here they are.

Included:
1) Rock Island caboose
2) Rock Island RPO stainless steel car 96512
3) Old turntable and tracks
4) Rock Island boxcar RI 195594
5) Missouri Pacific locomotives 1849 and 1893
6) Rock Island gondola 1439
7) "Route of the Eagles" MoPac boxcar MP-X 3563
8) Line of Rock Island work cars


Rock Island caboose. My original slide was dark and I lightened it up a little.


Rock Island RPO car 96512.  I don't have a clue what happened to it.


Old turntable tracks.


Turntable.


Old Rock Island buildings and boxcar.


Rock Island boxcar RI 195594.


Missouri Pacific locomotives 1849 and 1893. According to Bill Pollard, these were taken as you are in the bay window area of the "new" yard office building at Biddle (the one that burned).   The train is headed toward Confederate Blvd or whatever they call it now (the old Pine Bluff highway).  That grunge was on the windows---spiderwebs or something similar.


The same train as previous photo. Taken July 1980. 


Rock Island gondola 1439.


"Route of the Eagles" MoPac boxcar MP-X 3563.


Work cars.

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