Golden State (train)
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The Golden State was a named passenger train between Chicago and Los Angeles from 1902–1968 on the Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railroad and the Southern Pacific Company (SP) and predecessors. It was named for California, the “Golden State”.
Streamlined version of the train.
1909 postcard ad for the train.
1911 postcard. The railroad hired American illustrator Rose O'Neill to produce some of its promotional material.
Promotional ad from 1907
Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railroad
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The original Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railroad was an American Class I railroad. It was also known as the Rock Island Line, or, in its final years, The Rock.
Rock Island locomotive #627, circa 1910
Fractional Share of the Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific Railway Company, issued 30. June 1898
The former Rock Island Depot at Chillicothe, Illinois, now a railroad museum
Aerotrain advertisement.