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[QUOTE]Originally posted by George Harris: [QB] The Golden State was the best thing Rock Island did, and given their finances, was the best they could do. They had two other top notch (as much as they could make it) trains, the Rocky Mountain Rocket and the Twin Star Rocket. If you have ever seen any of their track charts and found out what they had in the track for rail, they were truly pushing the envelope. As to a Chicago - Los Angeles routing: To go through San Antonio is a far cry from the original Golden State in both routing and end to end time. To say the routing is round about is an understatement. The primary culprit is going from Ft. Worth to El Paso via San Antonio. The direct rail distance is 615 miles. by way of San Antonio is 888 miles, a penalty of 273 miles, and including some very slow running in the San Antonio area. So, we have Texas Eagle - Sunset, current route: 2728 miles according to Amtrak Chicago - Ft. Worth - El Paso - Los Angeles: 2455 miles Golden State original via Tucumcari: 2483 miles Southwest Chief, current routing: 2256 miles However, the Rock Island line between Chicago and Kansas City has been partially abandoned. So, if we say, rather than that 510 miles, it follows the Southwest Chief's route of 437 miles, as near as practical rebirth of the original Golden State route would be 2410 miles. One nice thing about the original Golden State via Kansas City was the the through cars to/from Minneapolis up the Rock Island line (now UP) via Des Moines IA. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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