The big change between this and the previous Shasta timetable is the addition of the Beaver. As mentioned yesterday, this was an economy train that was to the all-Pullman Cascade what the Challenger was to the Los Angeles Limited, the El Capitan was to the Super Chief, and the Silver Meteor was to the Orange Blossom Special. The timetable shows that the Beaver followed the Cascade by a few minutes.
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One difference was that the Beaver had tourist sleepers as well as coaches. The lounge car was open only to those in the tourist sleepers, thus creating the class system that the other trains promised to eradicate. The name “beaver” was poorly chosen; sexual innuendo aside, it sounds diminutive and certainly didn’t have the power of “El Capitan” or “silver meteor.” The Cascade and Beaver were merged into one train in 1950.