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The Golden State was the last first-class train on the Rock Island, retaining its dining cars and sleeping cars until its last run on February 21, 1968. [9] The Rock Island also competed with the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy railroad in the Chicago-to-Denver market.
The Imperial was a night train of the Rock Island and the Southern Pacific. It operated from Chicago to Los Angeles , via Kansas City (Missouri) and Tucumcari (New Mexico). Route
Pages in category "Passenger trains of the Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railroad" The following 12 pages are in this category, out of 12 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
It grants Rock Island Rail common carrier operation on about 0.2 miles of track at Swan Lake, Mississippi. The rest of the county's infrastructure had been relegated to non-common carrier, contract service back in 2001. There, Rock Island Rail's first revenue run took place on April 28, 2019.
The Quad Cities Rocket was a named passenger train of the Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railroad.It operated on a route between Chicago and Rock Island, Illinois.It was a remnant of one of the Rock Island's premier trains, the Rocky Mountain Rocket.
The Rock Island District (RI) is a Metra commuter rail line from Chicago, Illinois, southwest to Joliet.Metra does not refer to its lines by color, but the timetable accents for the Rock Island District line are "Rocket Red" in honor of the Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railroad's Rocket passenger trains.
Meanwhile, the first EMD LWT12 locomotive (serial number 20826), began to travel on the Rock Island line between Chicago and Peoria in February 1956 when pulling the line's Jet Rocket train, which bore a strong resemblance to an Aerotrain. [5] [18] [19] The Rock Island later designated the power car as locomotive number 1. [20]
The Rocky Mountain Rocket was a streamlined passenger train of the Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railroad.Rock Island's train numbers 7 and 8 ran between Chicago's LaSalle Street Station and Denver's Union Station and Colorado Springs, Colorado.