#rock island

[unteriors]

11th Street, Rock Island, Illinois.

#Rock Island #Illinois

[mikeywayarchive]

Rock Island, Denver // Nov 15th 2004 // __displaced__ on livejournal

#mikey way #rt #fi #gw #whole gang #fans #mcr #live #revenge #2004 #nov 2004 #11/15/04 #denver #rock island #radiohead #photo #originals

[badsciencejokes]

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#back to school #college #orion technical college #orion tech #orion tech college #grant #scholarship #davenport iowa #davenport #quad cities #visit quad cities #bettendorf #iowa #moline #rock island #illinois #grant money #electronics #degree #massage therapy #medical coding #medical assisting #bad science jokes

[emeraldexplorer2]

Someone captured this scene from the passenger platform at Denver Union Station of Rock Island train #8 the Denver section of the Rocky Mountain Rocket in September 1966.

#vintage #vintage railroads #railroad #train station #vintage train travel #vintage trains #rocky mountain rocket #rock island railroad #rock island #denver union station #denver #colorado #1966

[20th-century-railroading]

BN 6603, former GN 430, operates Great Northern longhood first, handling train 3, once known as the "Pacific Zip" through Rock Island, WA on the last lap into Wenatchee where it will receive a new crew and hopefully a properly facing loco for the trip into south Seattle. About a half hour earlier the lead SD45 had to be removed at Quincy, WA due to issues with one of its trucks. Note the engineer is operating from the trailing unit, head out of the window! March 06, 1980

#bn #burlington northern #1980 #trains #freight train #history #rock island #washington

[aryburn-trains]

The Rockets by Craig Sanders Via Flickr: For a few years in the 1970s the Rock Island Railroad operated a pair of passengers trains from Chicago that served downstate Illinois points. Both trains received some funding from the state. Both trains featured Rocket in their names although neither was much of a speedster given the countless slow orders imposed on their routes. At left is the Peoria Rocket sitting next to the Quad Cities Rocket. Both trains made their final runs on the last night of 1978. The image was made at LaSalle Street Station in Chicago. June 25, 1977

#peoria rocket #quad cities rocket #commuter train #cri&p #rock island railroad #1977 #chicago #peoria #rock island #trains #passenger train #history #lasalle street station #illinois

[trainmaniac]

Rock Island Aura by jayb_3132 Via Flickr: New Lenox, IL

#plants #morning #dark #sticks #winter #cold #outside #historic #moody #cloudy #SWS #Rock Island #Metra #New Lenox #IAIS 513 #GP38 #IAIS 702 #bridge #train #railway #railroad #Iowa Interstate #SIBI #IAIS SIBI #IAIS #flickr

[lisamarie-vee]

#life magazine #1940s #trains #rock island #b&w

[capt-riverdry]

M551 Sheridan

A 76mm gun is installed on an M551, registration number 13C503, at Rock Island Arsenal in 1967

#american tank #sheridan #m551 #rock island #afv #prototype #light tank #tank #vietnam

[marmarinou]

Rock Island F7A 677 (EMD 3-1949) leaving LaSalle Street station with an afternoon commuter run.

Chicago

June 8, 1977

Photo by Charlie Whipp

#trains #railroad #railroads #rails #rail #tracks #illinois #rr #track #train #trainspotting #Chicago #old Chicago #rock island #commuter train #urban #fog #clouds #LaSalle street station

[nysocboy]

Gemstone Connection: The Boy on the Prospect List

When I was growing up in Rock Island,  anyone who set foot inside the Nazarene Church for any reason, but didn't "get saved" and become a member, was placed on the Prospect List.

Even if they just came for Vacation Bible School, or to cheer for a friend at a Jump Quiz Tournament.

They stayed on that list forever, unless they asked to be removed or the Church Board decided to purge the list of names from many years ago.

(All models are over 18)

Every August, about a month before the fall revival, our Sunday school teacher gave each of us the contact information for 10 age- and -gender appropriate Prospects.  We were supposed to make it our business to "win them for the Lord," or at least invite them to church.

During the next month, we received 1 point for each Prospect that we prayed for, 2 points for each letter or post card, 5 points for each telephone call, and 10 points for each in-person visit, plus an extra 10 point if they actually came to church.

You might think that the Prospects would be buried in letters or harassed by constantly-ringing telephones, but in fact most people settled for prayer. It's a daunting prospect to cold-call someone you don't know, who has been to your church just once.

During the fall revival, the kid, teenager, and adult with the most points received awards, usually Bibles, while the whole congregation clapped and yelled "Amen!"

During the summer after 5th grade, the first year I was eligible, I wimped out with "prayer only."

In 6th grade,  I sent a few post cards.

In 7th grade, I tried phone calls, only to get two "wrong numbers" (which didn't count) and one "You made a mistake -- I never went to that church."

During the summer after 8th grade, I decided to go all the way with a personal visit.

I was fascinated by a name that appeared on the Prospect List every year: Francis DePew, who came to Vacation Bible School one summer, but never appeared again. He was in the same grade as me, and he lived on the Hill, but he didn't go to Washington Junior High.

That meant he went to Jordan Catholic School!

The Preacher told us all about Catholics!  When they weren't worshipping idols and being brainwashed by evil priests, they were laughing in the face of God, drinking, smoking, dancing, playing cards, going to movies.  But their favorite form of sin was the sex orgy, men cavorting with other men's wives, teenagers having sex without being married, all manner of abominations, as in the days before the Flood!

All manner of abominations?  I had to meet this Francis DePew!  Maybe I could get him to the altar, where he would cry and apologize to God, and I could wrap my arm around his waist and hug him.

The full story, with illustrations, is on Righteous Gemstones Beefcake and Boyfriends

#the righteous gemstones #Gemstone Connection #Rock Island #Catholic #Evangelical #Nazarene #S

[propadv]

1952 36,524 sunsets. Now another century of service dawns... for your railroad... the Rock Island 

Source: Time Magazine 

Published at: https://propadv.com/railroad-poster-and-ad-collection/rock-island-poster-and-ad-collection/ 

#1952 #Rock Island #Railroad #Railway #Ad #Advert #Advertising #Poster

[artistmacposts]

Rock Island Tribute Metra Locomotive at LaSalle St. Station

#youtube #rock island #metra #locomotive #chicago #tribute #Rock Island Red #lasalle st. station #train #railroad #commuter #mass transit #transit #rta

[corgiboobs]

Pictures from around Rock Island, Tennessee back in January 2023.

#Tennessee #Rock Island

[thebowerypresents]

Palm Provide Sonic Snack at Hometown Show

Palm – Music Hall of Williamsburg – November 30, 2022

I have waited long and patiently for the return of Palm, the abstract art-rock foursome whose debut full-length, Trading Basics, oh so quietly blew my mind in 2015. Thank the good and many gods that the band has returned — not only to recording music, with this year’s Nicks and Grazes, but also to playing live. On Wednesday night at Music Hall of Williamsburg, Palm put on a stunning and intoxicating show so delectable that you could nearly see the crowd salivating.

Vocalists Eve Alpert and Kasra Kurt, bassist Gerasimos Livitsanos and drummer Hugo Stanley hadn’t put out a studio album since 2018’s aptly named Rock Island, a balancing act of jagged and oppositional time changes, loops and dreamy psych-like vocals that have been stretched and pulled like taffy. The band drew quite a bit from that album on Wednesday, playing “Composite” early on to whoops and shouts from the crowd. Kurt’s vocals — not to mention his lyrics — are deeply reminiscent of droned-out Beach Boys: “God only sees it from both sides / Take a chance to clean His foggy eyes.”

On “Composite,” as on “Dog Milk,” as on “Heavy Lifting,” as on … well, a great much of what Palm played last night, the music warps and twists midway through, like a real-time record scratch, which is simply tantalizing when performed live. The foursome’s jammy outro on “Heavy Lifting” (Rock Island) was exhilarating, as was the build on “Feathers,” off Nicks, which started slow, soft and doomy and worked up to a percussive, near-danceable tune: “Make it up,” Alpert sang, “like a performer.”

Despite their adventurousness, Palm have managed to carve out a truly distinct sound, often punctuated by steel drum. That’s carried over into Nicks, on songs like “On the Sly,” which smacks of Animal Collective and Deerhoof. The live effect was one of buoyancy, keeping the room’s energy lifted all evening. But Livitsanos’s bass kept the floor in sight. Stanley’s drums are just a feat to behold, like a mathematical proof that has somehow been through the looking glass of a Pollock painting. The band encored with “Ankles,” the hit off Trading Basics, an angular, math-y classic of their genre that rippled across the room. Palm playing live is such a special sonic snack. Leave your expectations of form at home, though, and open your brain portals to some seriously excellent music. —Rachel Brody | @RachelCBrody

#Animal Collective #Beach Boys #Deerhoof #Eve Alpert #Gerasimos Livitsanos #Hugo Stanley #Kasra Kurt #Music Hall of Williamsburg #Nicks and Grazes #Palm #Rachel Brody #Review #Rock Island #Trading Basics

[20th-century-railroading]

An eastbound freight train courses through the Columbia River valley near Rock Island, Wash. Power on this day is a four-unit set of F7s totaling 6,000 horsepower. Great Northern

#gn #great northern #trains #freight train #history #rock island #washington