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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.
Rock Island locomotive #627, circa 1910 Fractional Share of the Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific Railway Company, issued June 30, 1898 Its predecessor, the Rock Island and La Salle Railroad Company, was incorporated in Illinois on February 27, 1847, and an amended charter was approved on February 7, 1851, as the Chicago and Rock Island Railroad.
The Rock Island District also serves Joliet with 21 trains. As of February 15, 2024, Metra operates six trains (three in each direction) on the Heritage Corridor on weekdays, with each train serving all stations on the route. All inbound trains originate from Joliet in the morning, and all outbound trains terminate at Joliet in the afternoon.
Monument showing the Rocket routes in 1952 at the former Rock Island Lines Passenger Station in Rock Island, Illinois. The Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railroad Rockets were lightweight, streamlined diesel-electric passenger trains built by the Budd Company. These six trains were the first streamlined equipment purchased by the Rock Island ...
The Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railroad operated an Auburn Park station at 78th Street [4] from 1879 [3] to 1978. [4] After ridership dropped to 21 daily riders, the station was dropped from most train schedules in favor of increased service to the Oak Forest and Midlothian stations in the suburbs. [7]
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.
A fold-out Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad schedule from 1959 shows the Twin Star Rocket schedule south of Fort Worth.. The Rock Island assigned the two Rocket train sets from the Kansas City–Minneapolis Rocket, and one train set from the Kansas City–Dallas Texas Rocket was transferred to the new Twin Star Rocket.
Midlothian is a station on Metra's Rock Island District line located in Midlothian, Illinois. The station is located at 3750 West 147th Street Midlothian is 18.4 miles (29.6 km) away from LaSalle Street Station, the northern terminus of the Rock Island District line. [2] In Metra's zone-based fare structure, Midlothian is located in zone 2.