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[QUOTE]Originally posted by TwinStarRocket: [QB] I don't remember too many details because I was so young, but in the 50's my dad worked for an ad agency with a headquarters in Peoria, IL (right out of "Mad Men" on AMC TV). He took me along on a rail business trip from our home in Minneapolis. We had an overnight roomette to Chicago, which must have been on the Pioneer Limited (Milwaukee Road) or the Blackhawk (CBQ). Then we took the Rock Island to Peoria on General Motors' "Train of the Future", the "Jet Rocket". It had articulated cars that connected without the usual doors and vestibules, just open space. The cars were so lightweight that vibration made all the covers on the china rattle loudly in the diner. And, oh what a different looking locomotive! Kind of like a late fifties car. Mr. Norman found a picture of it when I mentioned it before here. But I really wish I could have taken a western LD in those days. All our trips out west were in the big old family convertibles, top down night and day. My dad liked to chase trains. I remember chasing a Missouri Pacific passenger train through western Kansas in the night, and a Zephyr up the Wisconsin side of the Mississippi. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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