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EMD F7 Expansion: Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Skin Pack

The fabled Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railroad was a legend in its own time. A Might Fine Line was immortalized in song when Clarence Wilson, a member of the Rock Island's Colored Booster Quartet (an employee choir group from the railroad's Biddle Shops in Little Rock, Arkansas) wrote "Rock Island Line" in 1929.
A few different versions sprang up in the succeeding years, the most famous of which was recorded by icon Johnny Cash in 1970.
Unfortunately, for all the Rock's fame it was not quite as glamorous in reality. It carried problems tracing back to its earliest years and served cities its competitors already reached.
The Rock never "ran down into New Orleans" as Mr. Cash sang and struggled after the company's greatest leader, John D. Farrington, retired. In 1964, a merger was agreed upon with Union Pacific to assure the Rock's survival.
Alas, there was much opposition to this union and as the Interstate Commerce Commission dragged its feet the railroad physically collapsed.
In late 1974, when the agency finally gave its blessing UP was no longer interested. With few options left the Rock Island entered bankruptcy and was liquidated in 1980. In one of the industry's great ironies, most of the railroad's principal routes survive today.

Here we have the Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific EMD F7's locomotives.

• CRI&P EMD F7A 100 - 115
  
• CRI&P EMD F7B 100 - 109
  
• All units are available starting 1949 and retire in 1979

You will need the starter pack to make this work.

• Group listed
  
• Custom sounds by Mr. Cheesecake

• Top speed of 70mph
  
• Weight = 234,000 lb
  
• Tractive effort = 55,000 lb/f
  
• Power = 1500HP