"Rock Island Line" is an American folk song. Ostensibly about the Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railroad, it appeared as a folk song as early as 1929...
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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...
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Rock Island Line may refer to: Rock Island Line, the traditional song Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railroad, believed to be the line mentioned in the...
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Rock Island is a city in and the county seat of Rock Island County, Illinois, United States. The population was 37,108 at the 2020 census. Located at...
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The Rock Island District (RI) is a Metra commuter rail line from Chicago, Illinois, southwest to Joliet. Metra does not refer to its lines by color, but...
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Look up rock island in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Rock Island may refer to: islets known as rocks or rock islands Rock Island Township (disambiguation)...
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Rock Island Line is an album by Johnny Cash on vinyl format, later released on CD, with a few train and fun songs included of which some were from different...
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rising to prominence with a hit recording of the American folk song "Rock Island Line" which helped spur the broader UK skiffle movement. Donegan had 31...
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The Rock Island Depot and Freight House is a two-story railroad station and adjacent one-story freight house from the turn of the 20th century. It was...
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The Rock Island Clean Line was a proposed 500-mile high voltage direct current (HVDC) transmission line. The stated purpose of the line was to transport...
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Rock Island Line stations in Iowa City and Council Bluffs, Iowa. The station is east of a junction with the Illinois Railway (former CB&Q branch line...
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Cedar Rapids and Northern Railway in January 1902. The line was turned over to the Chicago, Rock Island, and Pacific Railroad in June of the same year. The...
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skiffle in late 1955. Donegan's fast-tempo version of Lead Belly's "Rock Island Line" was a major hit in 1956, featuring a washboard (but not a tea-chest...
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The Rock Island Depot is a historic railroad station located at 201 East 10th Street in Sioux Falls, South Dakota. The station opened in 1886 to serve...
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sold both trainsets at a discount to the Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railroad (the Rock Island line), which designated their locomotives as numbers...
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Wabash Cannonball (album) (section "Rock Island Line")
Arrangement "Big Rock Candy Mountain" "Wabash Cannonball" (J. A. Roff) "Casey Jones" (T. Lawrence Seibert) Eddie Newton - Music "Rock Island Line" "Careless...
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Island and Pacific Railroad (Rock Island Line) from 1893 to 1966. The station served trains including the Rock Island's Rocky Mountain Rocket (Chicago...
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The Rock Island Railway Depot is a historic train station building on 3rd Street in Fordyce, Arkansas. Built c. 1925 by the Rock Island Railroad, it is...
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El Paso and Northeastern Railway (redirect from El Paso Rock Island Line)
with the Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railroad (CRI&P) allowed for the introduction of the Golden State Limited in 1902. When a line connecting to lucrative...
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Discogs.com. Retrieved 25 February 2022. "Images for Leadbelly - Rock Island Line". Discogs.com. Retrieved 25 February 2022. "The Bourgeois Blues - Lead...
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skiffle craze of the mid-1950s and who had his first transatlantic hit, "Rock Island Line", while with Barber's band. He provided an audience for Donegan and...
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east-west line. The settlement originally known as Maney Junction developed at the crossing of these railroads. A post office was established as Rock Island, Indian...
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Island–Vermont Street is a Metra station in Blue Island, Illinois, servicing the Rock Island District and Metra Electric District Lines. On the Rock Island...
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The Derby Line–Rock Island Border Crossing is a road crossing that connects the town of Stanstead, Quebec, with Derby Line, Vermont, on the Canada–United...
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Johnny Cash (category American rock singers)
"Orange Blossom Special", and "Rock Island Line". During the last stage of his career, he covered songs by contemporary rock artists; among his most notable...
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is Rock Island; its largest city is neighboring Moline. Rock Island County is one of the four counties that make up the Davenport-Moline-Rock Island, IA-IL...
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Rock Island was a census-designated place (CDP) in Broward County, Florida, United States. The population was 3,076 at the 2000 census. It is now a neighborhood...
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Bobby Darin discography (category Rock music discographies)
and compilations from his career. Darin recorded his first single, "Rock Island Line"/"Timber", on the Decca label in 1956, and released his eponymous debut...
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Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railroad (the Rock Island line) the Jet Rocket train between Chicago and Peoria. The unit later became the Rock Island's locomotive...
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Rock Island is the 17th studio album by the British rock group Jethro Tull, released in 1989. The album continued the hard rock direction the band took...
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