IAIS Rock Island heritage unit

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Our own "Zephyr", Eric, has been credited with the inspiration for this locomotive. His modern day Rock Island paint scheme was the basis for this.

How many prototypes follow the model?

Congrats Eric!
 


Thats a SWEET scheme, I hope IAIS does more, I'd like to see a revived bankrupt blue on some modern units...

I hope Intermountain or Athearn decide to do this with their Gevos.
 
The Rock Island is one of those railroads that I dont know to much about,
Wasn't it mergered with the UP? And if so, is there a reason why it has different road numbers than the rest of the heritage units?
 
The Rock Island has a very interesting story behind it's ending. I can't link to it right now (I'm typing this from my phone) but, I think that Wikipedia is a good read.
 
Littlefoot14 said:
The Rock Island is one of those railroads that I dont know to much about,
Wasn't it mergered with the UP? And if so, is there a reason why it has different road numbers than the rest of the heritage units?
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The Rock did not merge with the UP nor anyone else.
 
i did go to wikipedia and looked around, but now i have more questions than answers.

What railroad owns this locomotive?

Is the roadnumber of any significance?

Does this have anything to do with the UP heritage units?
 


Littlefoot14 said:
i did go to wikipedia and looked around, but now i have more questions than answers.

What railroad owns this locomotive?
It is owned by the Iowa Interstate Railroad (IAIS) who operates former Rock Island track from near Chicago to Davenport, IA.


Is the roadnumber of any significance?
Not to the RI. The two most recent locos were 512 and 513,


Does this have anything to do with the UP heritage units?

No.
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The UP does operate former Rock Island track from Ft. Worth, through El Reno, and up to Kansas.
 
Both 512 & 513, (not sure how many others) were built to CSX specs, then CSX canceled the order, so IAIS picked them up.
 
Its amazing that the CEO or president of the real railroad used a HO scale model railroad to do the heritage scheme. I mean that is just down right kick friggin ass and a kick ass CEO too.

Oh and has he been on here recently? I haven't seen anything new from him in a longgg time. I remember it was like a battle who would get out a new locomotive, NYC, RI or SOU. All amazing pieces of art and work.
 
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Oh my, that DM&E horn has some serious issues. Someone should probably put it out of it's misery.

IAIS 513 looks awesome on the rails.
 


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