Friday, June 25, 2010

Postcard Friendship Friday

Here is the Rock Island Rocket, a train that made daily trips between Peoria and Chicago prior to 1950 and it went right through Rome, the little town where I grew up, and Chillicothe, a bigger little town to the north. Quite a streamliner, as I can remember calling it. You could kind of tell time by when the Rocket came through. I do remember one heading north somewhere around 5:00 p.m. and one coming south around 9:00.

My brother e-mailed this postcard to me when he saw that I was posting them on Friday with the postcard group. The card was sent to his wife and sister when they were little girls back in 1944.


This is not a postcard, but a picture of the old Rock Island depot in Chillicothe that is now a railroad museum. Happy PFF which is hosted by Beth at http://thebestheartsarecrunchy.blogspot.com/ (Click to enlarge)

10 comments:

  1. I used to like seeing the Burlington Zephyrs and the green Northern Pacific trains go through the town where I lived west of Chicago.

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  2. I think things would have been so much better if we had stayed with trains rather than semi-trucks!!!! Happy PFF!

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  3. The diagonal in this beautiful card emphasizes nicely the speed of this train. I travel ebery day with a train (sadly not so amazingly designed as this one) to my office - and I enjoy it. Happy PFF!

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  4. I would have liked to ride on the streamlined rocket, I love trains and this is a beauty.

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  5. That looks such an amazing train! Beautiful! And I have to say that I never thought I had it in me to describe a train as beautiful.

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  6. A very stylish train that looks as if it is on a mission! Fascinating old postcard!

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  7. I love your train, and how wonderful that he kept that card.mine is here.

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  8. Beautiful train. Love the color and the shape - would love to take a ride on this train.

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  9. stunning streamline train - is there anything more romantic?!
    ...and i'm fascinated by the fact that you grew up in a small town called "rome", living as i do in a large italian city with the same name ;-)

    happy PFF!

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  10. I especially LOVE the first postcard--it just fills my eyes. Thank you for posting this very interesting postcard and commentary! I enjoyed it very much.

    Happy PFF!

    Don't forget to visit Gemma's Mailbox meme--I forgot to add in the link on PFF--but it's there now!

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