9/1/2017

Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific
Chicago, Illinois (La Salle Street Station)
July 28, 1971




One of the last of the Rock Island Rockets arrives at Chicago's La Salle Street Station on a muggy summer morning. By this time only the Rock Island's commuter and long-distance trains remained after Penn Central's departure in 1968. Shot from the Roosevelt Road viaduct, looking north.




This page posted 9/1/2017; revised 1/1/2019. Text and photo ©2017 Lamont Downs.