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[Photograph 2012.201.B1119.0142]

Description: Caption: "The name and fame of Oklahoma will be perpetuated on the sides of one of the delux, reclining chair cars of the streamlined, Diesel powered "Choctaw Rocket" of the Rock Island Lines, which train will be on public exhibition at the Rock Island passenger station in Oklahoma City on Friday."
Date: November 25, 1940
Creator: Kaufmann & Fabry Co.
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B1119.0144]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "The end! Tht's waht John McGuire of Shawnee, No. 1 conductor and oldest conductor of Rock Island's "Old Panhandle and Indian Territory Division, " said Thursday night as the last east bound Rock Island passenger train pulled out of the station at 300 SW 7."
Date: November 10, 1967
Creator: Traverse, Austin
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B1119.0152]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Wade Brown, Fort Worth, piloting the northbound Rocket on her first trip from Dallas to Kansas City, looked at his watchjust to make sure he pulled out of the union station here on time Tuesday."
Date: November 16, 1938
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society
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