page_title: Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railroad
hierarchical_section_title: Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railroad
caption_attribution_description: English: Rock Island System Map
context_page_description: The Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railroad was a Class I railroad in the United States. 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.
  The song "Rock Island Line", a spiritual from the late 1920s first recorded in 1934, was inspired by the railway.
context_section_description: The Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railroad (CRI&P RW, sometimes called Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railway) (reporting marks CRIP, RI, ROCK) was a Class I railroad in the United States. 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.
caption: The Rock Island System in 1965.
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