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.
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)
I used to like seeing the Burlington Zephyrs and the green Northern Pacific trains go through the town where I lived west of Chicago.
ReplyDeleteI think things would have been so much better if we had stayed with trains rather than semi-trucks!!!! Happy PFF!
ReplyDeleteThe 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!
ReplyDeleteI would have liked to ride on the streamlined rocket, I love trains and this is a beauty.
ReplyDeleteThat 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.
ReplyDeleteA very stylish train that looks as if it is on a mission! Fascinating old postcard!
ReplyDeleteI love your train, and how wonderful that he kept that card.mine is here.
ReplyDeleteBeautiful train. Love the color and the shape - would love to take a ride on this train.
ReplyDeletestunning streamline train - is there anything more romantic?!
ReplyDelete...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 ;-)
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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.
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