Golden Rocket (train)

The Golden Rocket was a proposed named passenger train of the Rock Island (CRIP) and Southern Pacific (SP) railroads.

Planned in the late 1940s, Southern Pacific eventually pulled out of the agreement and service never commenced.

In February 1946, 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.

[2] 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.

[1] Rock Island assigned the cars to service on the Golden State,[4] its other transcontinental train (jointly operated with Southern Pacific).