Shasta Route 1929 Timetable

This is the first of fifteen Southern Pacific timetables I’ll be presenting over the next month. This one is for the Portland-San Francisco/Oakland Shasta Route, including both the Cascade and Siskiyou lines. It shows some branch line trains along this route, some “motor stage” schedules, and a few connecting trains.

Click image to download a 5.8-MB PDF of this 8-page timetable.

In 1929, Portland travelers to San Francisco could leave at 8:00 am on a train on the Cascade line, 8:30 am on the Siskiyou line, 5:45 pm on the Cascade line, 10:15 pm on the all-Pullman Cascade, or 10:45 pm on the Siskiyou line. The Cascade is 4-1/2 hours faster than the fastest Siskiyou line train.

The timetable also shows two trains a day from Eugene to Marshfield (Coos Bay), two a day plus a third on Sundays from Portland to Tillamook, plus mixed trains to Newport, Detroit (Oregon, not Michigan), Molalla, and Wendling (must have been a mill town). Two whole pages are devoted to bus service, including 25 buses a day between Portland and Salem, a 52-mile trip that took more than two hours (the fastest trains at the time were just under two hours).


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