We’ve previously seen a 12-page booklet from 1950 describing sights along the Southern Pacific’s Shasta Route. This one is from three decades earlier and fills 16 pages. Unlike the later booklet, this one includes more than 80 photos which, though … Continue reading
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This booklet aimed to help “all who are seeking suitable stopping places during their summer vacations” by briefly describing about 200 hotels, resorts, camps, and other destinations throughout California, including a few around Crater and Klamath lakes in Oregon. These … Continue reading
Although Amtrak took over most long-distance trains in 1971, Southern Pacific continued to operate its San Francisco-to-San Jose commuter trains. The state of California began subsidizing these trains in 1980. In 1991, a regional entity known as the Peninsula Corridor … Continue reading
Today we have the last of the Southern Pacific timetables contributed by a Streamliner Memories reader. I’m presenting three today mainly because the train schedules on all three are nearly identical even though they were separated by more than a … Continue reading
By 1969, Southern Pacific had terminated every train it was going to terminate before Amtrak would take over two years later. Aside from the San Francisco commuter trains, this left it with six daily trains: the Sunset Limited, the Coast … Continue reading
Yesterday’s remnant of a system timetable didn’t include the commuter trains SP ran between San Francisco, San Jose, and Los Gatos. They had their own timetable, such as the one shown here. Click image to download a 934-KB PDF of … Continue reading
I previously wrote that reducing SP’s system timetable from 16 to 6 pages was the “penultimate indignity.” The final indignity came in 1968, when it was reduced to just four pages. This was made possible by the discontinuance of the … Continue reading
The Shasta Daylight, which had been reduced to three days a week in the off-season in 1959, became a summer-only train in 1965, with the April 1965 timetable noting that it would operate from June 10 to September 7. SP … Continue reading
I previously mentioned that reducing SP’s system timetable from 16 to 6 pages meant sacrificing a page showing connections at Chicago and St. Louis. In 1963, that page listed two dozen trains on eight different railroads going from Chicago to … Continue reading
Yesterday’s 1965 timetable listed two trains between the San Francisco Bay Area and Chicago: the City of San Francisco and the San Francisco Overland. They were, however, the same train, as both had identical schedules. Today’s 1966 timetable gives up … Continue reading