Rock Island Colorado Tours in 1959

Except for the name of the railroad, this could be one of Union Pacific’s tour brochures similar to those shown here a couple of months ago. Unlike UP, Rock Island only went as far west as Colorado, so this brochure features two eight-day tours, one arriving (from Chicago) in Denver and departing (to Chicago) from Colorado Springs and the other doing the other way around.

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The basic all-inclusive fare was $157 (nearly $1,400 today), including a “single room” (probably a roomette) on the Rocky Mountain Rocket. Three of the nights were spent in Colorado Springs at the Alta Vista Hotel (built 1889), which was demolished just four years later in 1963. For about $20 ($180 today), passengers could upgrade to the Antlers Hotel, which was originally built in 1883 by the Rio Grande’s founder William Jackson Palmer, then rebuilt in 1901 after being burned in a fire, then torn down again in 1964 but rebuilt in 1967 as a hotel of the same name that still exists today.


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