This undated issue of Southern Pacific’s West bulletin to travel agents features the “new San Joaquin Daylight.” Since that train was inaugurated on July 4, 1941, this must have been published that summer. Click image to download a 4.4-MB PDF … Continue reading
Unlike yesterday’s menu, this 1940 menu is clearly marked for the San Joaquin. This was a heavyweight train when this menu was issued in 1940, but became the streamlined San Joaquin Daylight the very next year. Click image to download … Continue reading
Here are five Southern Pacific blotters from the Dale Hastin collection. The first one, dated 1937, advertises “two famed trains to California,” the Sunset and the Argonaut. It lists SP agents in Birmingham and Chattanooga, neither of which were actually … Continue reading
The Southern Pacific claimed that most dome cars were too tall to fit through its tunnels. So it designed and built its own dome cars out of older cars it had on hand. Its first car was built from a … Continue reading
