Southern Pacific advertising proclaimed that the railroad offered “four great routes”: Shasta, Overland, Golden State, and Sunset. But the Sunset and Golden State routes were really the same route for the first 800 miles from Los Angeles to El Paso. There, it split with the Sunset trains going to New Orleans and the Golden State trains going to Tucumcari, New Mexico for a connection with Rock Island trains to Memphis, Chicago and other Midwest cities.
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This timetable has ten pages for the Sunset and Golden State routes. But instead of keeping those pages together, it intersperses them with pages for the Coast/San Joaquin and West Coast of Mexico routes plus the centerfold map. The two pages each for the Shasta and Overland routes are appropriately located near the back.
Page 7 gives info. on Economy Meals service for The Californian. Sunset Magazine for October 1935 (pg. 5), shows the same idea for The Cascade and termed “New Food Service”. Some of the response to the depressed economy which gave rise to the Challengers idea over at UPRR, but also aimed at the new airlines service-in-your-seat method. The service noted was for chair cars and Tourist Pullmans on this Shasta Route train.