Familiar
New York Central observation/lounge car 'Hickory Creek' visited La Salle Street Station countless times in service on the '20th Century Limited', from 1948 onwards during the postwar streamliner era. For the first time in more than half a century, it revisited home territory on the 'Joliet Rocket' excursions behind Nickel Plate 765. After rebuilding in the '80s, the commuter-oriented La Salle Street Station of today looks much different than it did in its heyday serving long-distance trains of New York Central, Rock Island and Nickel Plate, but this is as close to history repeating itself as we're gonna get. Well-dressed passengers board the second trip of the day, which is preparing to depart for Joliet.
Familiar
New York Central observation/lounge car 'Hickory Creek' visited La Salle Street Station countless times in service on the '20th Century Limited', from 1948 onwards during the postwar streamliner era. For the first time in more than half a century, it revisited home territory on the 'Joliet Rocket' excursions behind Nickel Plate 765. After rebuilding in the '80s, the commuter-oriented La Salle Street Station of today looks much different than it did in its heyday serving long-distance trains of New York Central, Rock Island and Nickel Plate, but this is as close to history repeating itself as we're gonna get. Well-dressed passengers board the second trip of the day, which is preparing to depart for Joliet.