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Rock Island freight train travel times from the 1974 Official Guide. Read the following as: "point of origin" - "destination": arrival time ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Chicago - Los Angeles (via SP), 2300 miles: 2nd evening arrival Chicago - Tucumcari, 1100 miles: next evening arrival Chicago - Omaha: next morning Chicago - Denver: 2nd morning Chicago - Kansas City: next afternoon Chicago - Houston: 3rd morning Denver - St. Louis: 2nd morning ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The book doesn't give me the exact times for the Chicago to LA run, but assume they left Chicago at noon and arrived LA the 2nd evening at 6pm. That's 54 hours, which translates to 43 mph average for the entire transcon run. Quite impressive. The Union Pacific, by contrast, advertised in the same official guide that Chicago to Los Angeles piggy-back trailers on their "fast" trains are available to receivers the 3rd evening -- one day longer than Rock Island service. With times like these, it seems to me the Rock Island was a very competitive hauler!
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