Like yesterday’s Coast/San Joaquin timetable, this one is dated January 1954, shows just one route, is eight pages long, and has the same cover showing outdated locomotives. Unlike yesterday’s, this one doesn’t devote two whole pages to a system map, instead including just a west coast map on half a page.
Click image to download a 3.3-MB PDF of this 8-page timetable.
SP could have fit a two-page map into the timetable as only five pages were needed to cover Shasta Route trains. Instead, it added a page for the Coast Route and a page for the San Joaquin Route, thus covering the entire West Coast.
Southern Pacific in 1954 had three daily trains between Portland and the San Francisco Bay Area: the Shasta Daylight, which dashed between Portland and Oakland in 15 hours; the overnight Cascade, which required 16 hours; and the Klamath, a milk-run train that took almost 22 hours. Also shown is the Rogue River, which went from Portland to Ashland on the old Siskiyou Route, but passenger trains no longer went into California on that route.