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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 Twin Star Rocket was a passenger train operated by the Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railroad.Introduced on January 14, 1945, it was the only new streamlined train permitted to enter service in World War II by the U.S. government. [1]
An EMD LWT12 locomotive pulling the Rock Island line's Jet Rocket. 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.
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. The Rocky Mountain Rocket ran from 1939 to 1966; the train was discontinued prior to the ...
By the time Amtrak was formed in 1971, the once-proud Rock Island was down to just two intercity trains, the Chicago-Peoria Peoria Rocket and the Chicago-Rock Island Quad Cities Rocket, both of which now operated entirely within the borders of Illinois. However, the Rock Island opted against joining Amtrak, in part because the government ...
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 Choctaw Rocket followed a railway built by the Choctaw, Oklahoma and Gulf Railroad between 1900 and 1902, informally known as the Choctaw Route. The CO&G and its railways were purchased by the Rock Island railroad in 1902. A predecessor train, along the same route, and having the numbers #51/52, had the name, Chocktaw Limited in the 1930s. [2]
A magazine ad for the Golden Rocket from the Rock Island. A magazine ad for the Golden Rocket from Southern Pacific. The Golden Rocket was a proposed named passenger train of the Rock Island (CRIP) and Southern Pacific (SP) railroads. Planned in the late 1940s, Southern Pacific eventually pulled out of the agreement and service never commenced.