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Rock Island RS3 with suburban train

By Angela Cotey | December 19, 2014

| Last updated on August 8, 2025

The Rock Island used a variety of diesel power on its Chicago suburban trains, but Alco RS3s predominated. In 1966, maroon RS3 499 has just departed La Salle Street Station with three cars.
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