Nostalgia & History > Maroon Monday -- A Rocket

CRI&P 642 (E7A) and sisters with Train 11, the Peoria Rocket, leaving La Salle Street Station on February 2, 1968.

Another of Roger Puta's photographs.

Enjoy,
Marty Bernard

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A-B-A E7s. Excellent!

This seems to be a very long Peoria Rocket - 3 units?!?!?  And looks like TOFC on the rear. Could this be a different train?

JGFuller Wrote:
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> This seems to be a very long Peoria Rocket - 3
> units?!?!?  And looks like TOFC on the rear.
> Could this be a different train?

I wondered the same, but it's Roger's caption and he was quite meticulous.  Anyhow, how many of us go out on a cold, I bet windy, and snowy Chicago day to take train pictures.

Marty



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MartyBernard Wrote:
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> Anyhow, how many of us
> go out on a cold, I bet windy, and snowy Chicago
> day to take train pictures.
 Like this?
http://www.trainorders.com/discussion/read.php?11,1272826,1272826#1272826

TAW

It's striking how everything in that photo is monochromatic except the locomotives. Did you perform any digital trickery?

Great shot!  The snow just sets the mood so nicely and SCREAMS Chicago.

- Jeff Carlson

3 units does seem a lot for a Peoria train but who knows how many prime movers and steam generators
are actually working.  They might have needed to 3 units just to get enough working parts
together to move the train.  It is, after all, the Rock Island.

:)

Englewood Wrote:
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> 3 units does seem a lot for a Peoria train but who
> knows how many prime movers and steam generators
> are actually working.  They might have needed to
> 3 units just to get enough working parts
> together to move the train.  It is, after all,
> the Rock Island.

That could be the Peoria Rocket or it could be Train 7, the Cornhusker. Both departed LaSalle St. in the morning and both were known to carry TOFC (Train 7 more so than Train 11).

Three E7s would be more typical of Train 7, but not unheard of for a Peoria train. If they have been recently shopped at the Rocket House this would a natural assignment for a shakedown run, they would make a 322-mile round trip and be back in Chicago that evening.

Since none of us were standing next to Roger that morning, we can only second-guess him.

NZ

#7 would be the remnent of now discontinued Rocky Mountain Rocket?  Meticulous notes or not, nobody is perfect, my vote goes with the suggestion that this is # 7.  This shot just screams of atmosphere.....and that screming you hear is the howling wind.  AA

Stanford White
Carmel Valley, CA