Rock Island 100-Ton 3-Bay Open Hopper, Rib Sides with Coal Load #15100

Rock Island 100-Ton 3-Bay Open Hopper, Rib Sides with Coal Load #15100

• This 100-ton 3-bay open hopper with rib sides and coal load is black with white letting and runs on Bettendorf trucks. Several hundred of these cars were built in the late 1950s and refurbished en-masse in the mid to late 1970s, and were painted in various iterations of the Rock Island paint scheme. This car was lettered for the Rock Island Improvement Company, a private owner/lessor founded to continue some operations after Rock Island entered bankruptcy.