The City of San Francisco was 30 minutes late when it pulled out of Carlin, Nevada on the evening of Aug. 12, 1939. The train was America’s most luxurious streamliner, launched the year before to ...
Find out which of the Rock Island Rocket passenger trains held the fitting “Rocket” name and where they went into the history books.
The City of San Francisco was 30 minutes late when it pulled out of Carlin, Nevada on the evening of Aug. 12, 1939. The train was America’s most luxurious streamliner, launched the year before to ...