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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 Chicago Rock Island & Pacific Railroad LLC (AAR-reporting mark RILX) is an American Class III railroad operating in Mississippi, Kansas and Oklahoma.It uses the name and the most recent corporate identity of the first Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railroad (1852–1980).
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.
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 .
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 station served Rock Island trains from the north to the south, and from the west to the east. In 1957 passenger trains included: [4] multiple Rocket trains (Chicago – Davenport - Des Moines) Rocky Mountain Rocket (Chicago – Davenport - Colorado Springs, CO) Kansas City Rocket (Minneapolis-St. Paul – Kansas City)
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.
An Aerotrain operating in suburban service in April 1965 as Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railroad No. 2 at Chicago's Englewood Union Station.. The Aerotrain was a streamlined trainset that the General Motors (GM) Electro-Motive Division (EMD) introduced in 1955.