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The ''Golden Rocket'' was a proposed named passenger train of the Rock Island (CRIP) and Southern Pacific (SP) railroads. In the 1940s, the Rock Island and Southern Pacific Railroads planned on jointly-introducing a high-speed, tri-weekly passenger train that would run between Chicago, Illinois and Los Angeles, California. Two 11-car consists were to have been placed into service on the new line, one owned by the CRIP and the other by the SP. However, just as Pullman-Standard neared completion on the Rock Island trainset in 1947, and in the midst of an aggressive advertising campaign, the Southern Pacific abruptly withdrew from the project. Rock Island took delivery of its rolling stock: a baggage-dormitory car, three coaches, a coffee shop-bar-lounge car, four sleeping cars, and a sleeper-lounge-observation car (with barbershop). The Rock Island consist for the ''Golden Rocket'': # Baggage-dormitory #820 # Coach ''Valle Verde'' # Coach ''Valle Vista'' # Coach ''Valle Mar'' # Coffee-shop lounge ''El Café'' # Diner ''El Comedor'' # 4-double bedroom, 4-compartment, 2-drawing room sleeper ''La Quinta'' # 22-roomette sleeper ''La Costa'' # 12-double bedroom sleeper ''La Jolla'' # 12-double bedroom sleeper ''La Palma'' # 2-double bedroom, 1-drawing room sleeper buffet lounge-observation ''La Mirada'' The proposed Southern Pacific consist for the ''Golden Rocket'' that was never built: # Baggage-dormitory # Coach ''Valle Rio Grande'' # Coach ''Valle del Sol'' # Coach ''Valle Imperial'' # Coffee-shop lounge ''El Café Frontero'' # Diner ''La Fonda'' # 4-double bedroom, 4-compartment, 2-drawing room sleeper ''Monte Chiricahua'' # 22-roomette sleeper ''Monte Santa Rita'' # 12-double bedroom sleeper ''Monte San Jacinto'' # 12-double bedroom sleeper ''Santa Catalina'' # 2-double bedroom, 1-drawing room sleeper buffet lounge-observation ''La Galleria'' The units arrived bearing the ill-fated ''Golden Rocket''s eye-popping livery, painted bright vermilion on top and bare stainless steel on the bottom. The cars also retained the festive Mexican-themed interiors originally intended for the ''Rocket''. Rock Island immediately placed the cars into service on the ''Golden State'', its other transcontinental train (jointly-operated with Southern Pacific). The ''Golden State''s cars and locomotives retained the ''Golden Rocket'' colors well into 1953, after which time the locomotives were repainted in the SP's well-known red-and-orange ''Daylight'' livery. Both railroads advertised the ''Golden Rocket''. It was promoted as "''America's Newest, Most Beautiful Streamliner''"; instead, it became "''the train that never was''." ==See also== * ''El Comedor'' * Passenger trains on the Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railroad * Passenger trains on the Southern Pacific Railroad 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Golden Rocket (train)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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