The Streamliner Memories reader who contributed scans for most of the Union Pacific timetables presented in the last few weeks also provided scans for four dozen Southern Pacific timetables and fare schedules that I’ll be presenting over the next two months. Today we have a 1908 timetable that seems to be from a completely different world from the mid-century ones we are used to.
Click image to download a 12.8-MB PDF of this 28-page timetable.
Instead of the Overland Limited and Sunset Limited, this timetable advertises the Overland Express and Sunset Express. The former was supplemented by the somewhat slower Atlantic Express and the even slower China and Japan Fast Mail. The Sunset Express was joined by the Golden State Limited and an El Paso Express as far as El Paso, but there was no secondary train between New Orleans and El Paso.
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SP had not yet built its branch down the Siuslaw River from Eugene to Marshfield (the former name of Coos Bay), which Wikipedia says didn’t open until 1916. Instead, the timetable says a line from “Drain to Marshfield” down the Umpqua River was “under construction” and in the meantime stagecoach service was available.
One historian says this construction included a tunnel that is now used by a state highway and adds that this line was probably only “a bluff” to keep the Chicago & North Western from building a line from South Dakota to Coos Bay. A line on the Umpqua would have been less expensive to operate than one on the Siuslaw, but it was the latter route that SP eventually, but apparently reluctantly, followed.
1908 would see the introduction of the Lark on the Coast Line. The Coaster survived until 1949, when it was replaced by the Starlight. The latter was advertised as an all coach overnight train, but ordinarily carried a heavyweight sleeper as well, to cater to the Coaster’s clientele.
Coaches were added to the Lark in 1956, and the Starlight was discontinued in 1957. The Lark itself came off in April 1968.