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Category Archives: Southern Pacific
Southern Pacific-Rock Island Golden State
The Chicago-LA streamliner Golden State wasn’t orange and white, as this artist’s rendering looks, but red and silver, and was that for only the first couple of years of its life as a streamliner, from 1948 until soon after 1950, … Continue reading
Posted in Golden State, Rock Island, Southern Pacific
Tagged Dearborn Station, El Paso, Golden Rocket, San Francisco Chief
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It depends where you are in California: Southern Pacific City of San Francisco snowbound
The caption to the photo below, from Yenne, Bill, ed., All Aboard! The Golden Age of Rail Travel, reads in part: “In January 1952, a monstrous blizzard trapped passengers aboard the City of San Francisco for four days.” Somewhere in my collection … Continue reading
Chicago to LA streamliners in 1949: Super Chief, Chief, El Capitan, City of LA, Golden State
Train service changed continually, so we can talk only about a moment in time. Travel back with me to June 1949. There were far less people in the world than there are today, and less had money to travel, and, … Continue reading
Los Angeles Union Station ticket sales wing
Today this wing of the station is reserved for special events, including, I believe, filming for movies and commercials. When I was a kid, each of the three railroads’ names appeared in sedate chrome or gold-colored metal lettering behind their … Continue reading
Posted in Santa Fe, Southern Pacific, Union Pacific
Tagged Los Angeles Union Station
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Southern Pacific Shasta Daylight
Climbing over Cascasde Summit, the highest point on the Oakland to Portland route. Photo by Sandy Goodrick, reproduced here from Mike Schafer and Joe Welsh, Classic American Streamliners. Southern Pacific introduced the Shasta Daylight in 1949, 13 years after the … Continue reading
Rock Island, Southern Pacific Golden State sleepers on Pennsylvania Admiral at Horseshoe Curve
Click to enlarge the photo and click again to enlarge the enlargement. The Admiral is two hours late, according to the caption of this photo from Don Ball, Jr.’s Pennsylvania Railroad 1940s-1950s. The sleepers from the Golden State are coming through from … Continue reading
Posted in Golden State, Pennsylvania, Rock Island, Southern Pacific, Uncategorized
Tagged Horseshoe Curve
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Rock Island and Southern Pacific Golden State Limited: in the lounge car
This wonderful Southern Pacific photo, reproduced here from Beebe and Clegg The Trains We Rode, predates the streamlined life of the Golden State. The authors’ caption reads, in part, “A highball with a fellow traveler in the lounge as the New … Continue reading
Posted in Golden State, Rock Island, Southern Pacific, Uncategorized
Tagged Lounge cars
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