Motorcars  Contributor's Pick!       
Not only were locomotives from all over the Rock Island brought in to Silvis for disposition but every motorcar from section houses fanning out for a hundred miles in all directions from Silvis were also brought in for sale (date not exact)
Date: 4/7/1980 Location: Silvis, IL Views: 976 Collection Of:   Rob Kitchen
Author:  Rob Kitchen
Motorcars
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Carl Wilmoth General Skeletons!!! 8/12/2006 8:07:39 AM
Carl Wilmoth General I can remember as a kid seeing equipment like this and it was like the enginemen of old who kept their engines tip top and polished, the MOW was the same till the Sectiions got chopped and all the foremen when seniority took to the traveling MOW gangs 2/27/2007 1:06:01 PM

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