Southern Pacific July 1949 Timetable

One of the Detroit masons who attended the 1949 convention in San Francisco kept a copy of Southern Pacific’s then-most-recent system timetable. The group would have been on the Southern Pacific from San Francisco to Los Angeles. Since the group was on the Rio Grande from Denver to Salt Lake, it seems logical that they would have taken the Western Pacific to Oakland, but evidence indicates that they took the Southern Pacific on that leg as well.

Click image to download a 30.5-MB PDF of this 52-page timetable.

This menu is dated July 10, 1949, which happened to be the inaugural date of the Shasta Daylight. The front cover of this timetable is a full-page ad for the new train. The timetable cover itself, shown above, is actually the back cover.


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