Southern Pacific March 1946 Timetable

Here’s another condensed timetable, meaning it is missing most of the advertising found in the system timetable. Being so soon after the end of the war, the trains it features are pretty much the same as the pre-war trains, minus the special trains (Forty-Niner and Treasure Island Special) that were used to supplement the five-times-a-month schedule of the City of San Francisco.

Click image to download a 11.5-MB PDF of this 24-page timetable.

The Overland Route had plenty of trains without those special trains. The City of San Francisco had two sets of equipment so it was now up to ten trips a month. Daily trains included the San Francisco Overland, San Francisco Challenger, and Pacific Limited. These were supplemented by a special eastbound train, the Military Challenger, consisting solely of coaches and a diner, that carried soldiers home from Bay Area ports to Chicago and St. Louis. Similar military trains, unnamed but numbered 370 and 371, shuttled between Los Angeles and Tucumcari, New Mexico, where they connected with Rock Island trains.


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