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Category Archives: Southern Pacific Sunset Limited
French Quarter Lounge, Southern Pacific Sunset Limited
This Southern Pacific publicity photo of the French Quarter Lounge on the Sunset Limited, which received its streamlined equipment in 1950, is reproduced from the wonderful, definitive work, The Sunset Limited, by Jarel, Ryan, and Signor. Below, I reproduce a … Continue reading
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Sunset Limited Diner, Coffee Shop, and Lounge: close-ups
The Audubon Dining Room, above, the Pride of Texas Coffee Shop, below. The Tom Savio photos, below, of the Audubon Dining Room and the French Quarter Lounge, and the Southern Pacific photo of the Pride of Texas Coffee Shop are reproduced … Continue reading
Sunset Limited rear sleeper designed for the end of the train
Southern Pacific’s Sunset Limited never carried an observation car, the kind of car that I loved to sit in so I could watch out the back of the train. (On almost all long-distance Amtrak trips I spend hours standing in the back … Continue reading
Southern Pacific Sunset Limited publicity painting, c. 1950
The drawing is reproduced here from Southern Pacific’s “Wonderful Ways West” booklet, which features all their trains, although this painting saw wide use. A copy of it hung in the Pomona, California, Southern Pacific station, I remember. The Sunset Limited … Continue reading
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