#choctaw rocket

"Choctaw Rocket" power in the RI Coach yard facility north of Harahan Bridge. Memphis, TN 1952

Eastbound "Choctaw Rocket" approaches the US59 crossing at Howe, OK on May. 31, 1962.

CRI&P Choctaw Rocket Forrest City, AR 1941-1942

This down on view shows the various tracks of Central Station, numbered left to right, 1-10, with postal track 11. The lightweight consist on track 7 is train 51, the westbound Choctaw Rocket, circa 1950. It is led by one of RI's TA units. The IC car in consist is the Chicago-Hot Springs sleeper which has just arrived on IC #3, the Louisiane. The rear obs appears to be the Kaw Valley, based on window arrangement. It is obviously not one of the two original Choctaw Rocket observation cars, Little Rock or Memphis.

Rock Island 9015 at Little Rock, Arkansas, an RDC motor car operating as passenger train "Choctaw Rocket" in December 1962. The front end of the motor car is an RPO - Railway Post Office.

CRI&P EMC TA #601 possibly on the Choctaw Rocket Little Rock, AR June 10, 1950

An Electro-Motive Corp. TA diesel heads up Rock Island’s westbound Choctaw Rocket at the joint RI-Katy station at McAlester, Okla., in 1949. Robert A. Hadley photo

The Rock Island's streamlined Choctaw Rocket is eastbound in 1949, passing under the Third Street overpass in Little Rock.