1950S “THE ROCKY MOUNTAIN ROCKET” ROCK ISLAND RAILROAD CHICAGO TO DENVER PASSENGER TRAIN XD48094
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This film explores various tourist destinations along the famous "Rocky Mountain Rocket" line. The streamlined “Rocket” trains (numbers 7 and 8) ran from Chicago, Illinois to Denver and Colorado Springs, Colorado from 1939 to 1966. The journey was scheduled as 19.5 hours. Rock Island used an EMC E6 and EMC AB6 diesel to haul the train.
00:15 Main title on graphic of train.00:24 "And Colorado - Vacationland Supreme" on mountain graphic. 00:29 Pan Chicago skyline to South Street train station. 01:08 Conductor and passenger examine map inside passenger car. 01:16 Woman reads by window. 01:23 Well dressed women look at menus. 01:30 Train on track. 01:49 Tracks racing behind train. 02:01 Woman combs girl's hair. 02:07 Woman and children walk down aisles. 02:18 Porter speaks with passengers in sleeping car. 02:25 People eat in dining car. 02:48 Attendant pours drinks for passengers in observation lounge. 03:01 Trip map: "Rock Island Route of the Rocky Mountain Rockets" from Chicago to Denver and Colorado Springs. 03:27 Colorado State Capital Building, Denver, Colorado. 03:36 State Capital Annex exterior. 03:44 Denver City and County Building in Civic Center Park. 03:51 View of Civic Center Park. 03:56 Landscape in Red Rocks Park, including Stage Rock. 04:10 Elk graze in field in Cody Park. 04:19 Herd of bison graze. 04:27 Buffalo Bill's grave in Lookout Mountain. 04:36 Buffalo Bill Memorial Museum. 04:42 Echo Lake 04:49 Map: Denver, Rocky Mountain National Park, other landmarks. 05:12 Saint Vrain Highway. 05:20 South Saint Vrain Highway route through Big Thompson Canyon. 05:37 Rocky Mountain National Park and Estes Park Village. 05:46 Continental Divide. 05:52 Long's Peak. 05:56 Olympus Lodge. 06:00 Longs Peak Inn. 06:03 Woman looks at Longs Peak. 06:08 Columbine Lodge. 06:13 YMCA Conference Center (YMCA of the Rockies). 06:21 Horse riders at stables. 06:32 Pan over Mary's Lake. 06:38 Group eat by water. 06:49 Bear Lake. 06:53 Nymph Lake. 07:04 Tourists ride horses. 07:16 Two men rest by water. 07:23 Dirt road to mountain. 07:29 Stead's Ranch. 07:35 Trail Ridge Road. 07:42 Pan over snowcapped peaks. 08:11 Red bus drives road. 08:20 Window Peak view of Gorge Lakes, Mount Julian, Mount Ida. 08:44 Bighorn sheep on rocky wall. 09:00 Grand Lake. 09:10 "You are now at world famous Mineral Belt Gold Mine and Silver, Open to visitors". 09:16 Gold mine. 09:23 Tourists enter "Start tunnel". 09:34 Group of horseback riders. 09:45 Horses cross stream .09:56 Riders approach building. 10:10 Glenwood Canyon. 10:13 Glenwood Springs. 10:19 Man in cowboy hat fly fishing. 10:23 Two men catch a fish. 10:26 Fish underwater. 10:36 Hotel Colorado exterior. 10:41 Water fountain at Hotel Colorado. 10:49 People swim in Hot Springs Pool. 11:04 People lounge on beach by water. 11:07 Man drops woman in water. 11:15 Train travels through the Royal Gorge. 11:35 Twisting tracks through rocks. 11:44 Royal Gorge Bridge above the Arkansas River. 11:53 View of canyon below. 11:59 Elevator track. 12:08 Royal Gorge Incline Railway. Car travels up steep track. 12:16 Cable car passes. 12:30 Building with sign: "Rock Island Lines". 12:35 Pan across Colorado Springs. 13:22 Colorado Street leading to Pike Peaks Mountain. 13:28 Antlers Hotel exterior. 13:33 Pikes Peak Avenue, Colorado Springs. 13:39 Hotel guests in garden. 13:57 Plaza Hotel. 14:03 Broadmoor Resort on Cheyenne Lake. 14:08 Broadmoor. 14:16 Broadmoor golf course. 14:23 Polo players chase ball. 14:35 Broadmoor-Cheyenne Mt. Highway. 14:40 Car travels highway. 14:48 Main points to Will Rogers Shine of the Sun. 14:58 Bust of Will Rogers. 15:05 Buses at monument. 15:22 Cheyenne Lodge. 15:41 "Will Rogers Rodeo". 15:46 Montage: Rodeo events. 16:39 Plains Indians in war bonnets by teepees. 16:59 Montage: Cheyenne Canyon, Eagle Cliff, Inspiration Point, Seven Falls. 18:26 Manitou Cliff Dwellings reproduction. 18:35 Incline railway up Mount Manitou. 18:48 William Canyon. 19:15 Building, sign: "Wonderful Cave of the Winds". 19:19 Visitors walk through cave chambers, stalactites and stalagmites. 19:42 Garden of the Gods. 20:03 Balanced Rock and Indian Rocks, Colorado Springs. 20:18Sign "Pikes Peak Summit 18" 20:20 Montage of Pikes Peak roadways to summit. 20:53 Cog Railway ascending peak. 21:32 Garden of Gods in distance. 21:45 Woman looks to Lake Moraine. 21:51 Train passes. 22:01 Observation tower on Pikes Peak. 22:10 Sunset. 22:15 Train returns to Chicago. 22:27 "The End"..
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Was privileged to move to Colorado as a tike in 1950, I remember going down to Union Station to pick up grandpa when I was 3 or 4, what a memory... Colorado was AMAZING back in those days when present cities were just small towns and the countryside was covered with small farms instead of housing developments.
A wonderful life
As a railfan with family in Colorado, it still strikes me as amazing every time I'm out there. Parents are both Boulder natives, both born in the 50s. I've taken Amtrak to/from Union Station numerous times. Only way to see the Rockies.
@@sturmovik5448 We settled in Boulder in the mid 50s when I was 10, it was a 'beyond wonderful' place to be a kid and grow up, when everything was downtown and the railroad tracks ran along the north side of Water Street, now Canyon Blvd...Another great way to see the Rockies is on a motorcycle, something I got to do in the 70s, 80s and 90s till the thrill was gone...cheers
@@markmark2080 That's the impression my mom had of the place. She was born in 56, and raised mostly just outside the city in a house that was in the family until just last year. Her parents bought the lot as soon as it was on the market, because it was the best view in town. A thousand feet above the city, the whole city perfectly framed between two hills and Denver in the far distance. You could watch cars moving like ants, like from a plane just after takeoff. The patio, basement rec room and both master bedrooms had what anywhere else in the country would have been literal million-dollar views. I'll always love memories of that old house.
Golden age of train travel.
All that beauty and not an amusement park, mobile phone or fast food joint in sight, pure bliss.
Thanks for posting!
I've been looking for some fabulous footage of the Rocket with that compact 1200HP EMC TA locomotive on the point. This film delivers in COLOR !!
The TA was designed to be only as tall as the passenger coaches. Only the Rock Island had them!
Estees Park…lol. I grew up there. It’s just Estes. No matter, I really like these old newsreels. It’s fun to see the town and area before my time.
A lot better then, than now in every way!!!🤔🧐😳
My grandfather worked a couple summers at the YMCA camp out there in the late '40s. Glad I got to visit it with him before he died ten years ago.
It may have been how it was pronounced back then. I've heard similar videos from the era refer to Los Angelees, with a hard G.
It's actually Estes Park Village. Check it out, but we call it Estes, also. 💙 T.E.N.
They should have given the narrator a briefing on some of the pronunciation and nomenclature. It's definitely not "Estees" Park and It's Colorado Ave. Not Colorado St. I have ridden up to Pikes Peak by road and cog road. I remember when they would feel the hubs on the wheels of your car to see if you had been riding your brakes down the mountain. If your wheels were hot you would have to pull over. They have had instances in the distant past where people would burn their brakes out completely on the way back down the mountain.
You see how nice, how polite and upright everyone was? You see how we carried ourselves? That's called dignity, you bums!
We look like a bunch of Walmart / Waffle House Democrats now
2:10 look how those kids are dressed. I'm 33 and I don't think I ever dressed that well until until my first high school choir concert.
Now tell us how black people knew their place.
@@farmerdave7965 and all that like that there
You are absolutely right! And good on you for calling the current Generations bums. They are, mine included.
This seemed more like a, "things to do in Colorado" tourism video, rather than about the train, itself.
That's common in travel promo videos from this age. They're selling the destination more than the journey. I do agree the title could make that clearer.
Amazing the number of railroads competing in the Chicago-Denver passenger market. This video shows Colorado as nostalgic exotic place.
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Did President Ronald Reagan narrate this?
Cool footage of building of the Royal Gorge line. It's quite the experience to travel through.
Beautiful train!
That was the top train to Colorado Springs and Denver between 1939 and 1956. The Denver Zephyr wiped it off the map in 56. By 1966 it was a disaster on the rails. Lincoln, Nebraska still has the depot, but the tracks are gone and the poor thing looks lost in its new sterile Post Post-modern environment. Miss that train, but it was in bad shape when I was a little kid.
I was hoping to see the Rock Island line as it came into Colorado Springs. I drive the area where it was daily.
Not a single word about vacations in Iowa, Nebraska or Kansas. And the RM Rocket came in a distant third after the Denver Zyphr or the City of Denver??? Best you could say it that there was some interesting switching at Limon and it had a B unit which could operate as the lead
locomotive to Colorado Springs.
🏆🏆🏆👍🇺🇲🙏
Thank you for sharing
15:00 If Wikipedia can be trusted, it was at that time possible to ride from Colo. Springs to the summit of Cheyenne Mountain on elephants.
It's eye-opening, from a 22 year old in 2022 perspective, to see that every person in a service role was black. The race issue is so visible, but everyone is behaving like it's normal in the film.
Colorado history ain't so colorful... That's sure.
Actually being a Porter for Pullman was one of the best jobs a black man could get back then. They worked you to death before they unionized. Eventually the union went on to organize the Civil Rights Movement that we talk about in school.
Super. 💙 T.E.N.
Volume too low. Otherwise this is a beautiful film of American history. Thank you.
Rocky Mountain Rocket never had the style of the Denver Zephyr.
Early on it appears the passengers are bouncing around a bit.
Excellent video, but I'm pretty sure its from 1938-39 and not the 50's, thanks for sharing.
I agree. "Gleaming new"; the Rocket was introduced in 1939 and, as far as I can find out, was not given new cars until its discontinuation in 1966.
EDIT: The map at 4:52 does not seem to show US 36 on its current alignment between Denver and Boulder, which as far as I can find out was completed in 1959.
13:00 correct me if I'm wrong, but that view doesn't seem to show the Monument Valley Freeway (now I-25), which would date it before 1955
@ "Recently modernized"; the Pikes Peak Cog Railway replaced steam with diesel power starting in 1939
@@sturmovik5448 Also, in the video they commented on the Colorado Gold Rush 80 Years ago which was in 1858, 1858+ 80 = 1938.
Women's swim suits at 10:51 look like 1950 ish to me.
I would not swear to it, but I think the narrator is John Cameron Swazee???
What year was this film made? We moved from Ill to Colo in 1995 & have been to these spots here many times. RMNP is our park & live abt 50 m from it.
Any content available from tucumcari to Amarillo tx?
Wasnt this called the Zephyr? Look how dressed up everybody is
No. The Zephyrs were run by the Chicago Burlington and Quincy between Chicago and Denver on a different route. There was a whole fleet of zephyrs that ran on many different routes including between Denver and Chicago, Chicago and San Francisco and Denver to Ft Worth.
All the footage of Colorado and not one mention of Bailey, Colorado and the thousands of Bigfoot sightings ! Also, barring Yosemite, more people go missing in Rocky Mountain National Park than anywhere else in the United States .
Those cars and the women's clothes are not from the 50s. Definitely the 40s.