With the April 1957 timetable, Southern Pacific replaced drawings of its four leading streamliners on the back cover with a simplified map of its rail system, as shown below. A more detailed system map is still included in the centerfold.
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The simplified map shows a straight line from Klamath Falls to central Nevada. If realistic, it is almost as if Southern Pacific could have competed with the City of Portland by carrying passengers on its track from Portland to the Overland Route. In fact, as the centerfold map shows, that wouldn’t have been very competitive, with a line from Klamath Falls to Alturas, a line from Lakeview via Alturas to Truckee, and a line from Truckee to Fernley, just east of Reno.
The Klamath Falls-to-Alturas line didn’t open until about 1930, and the Depression would have kept SP from developing that line as a through route. The railroad briefly ran a three-day-a-week passenger train from Reno to Lakeview via Fernley and Alturas, but I don’t believe passenger trains were ever scheduled on the Klamath Falls to Alturas line.
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According to the book “The Modoc” by Bowden & Dill there was a passenger train that ran the entire line from Klamath Falls to Fernley for a few years.
The K Falls to Alturas section opened on September 15, 1929 and the first trains ran soon after.
The trains ran as 31 & 32 and required 9 hours and 40 minutes to travel 280 miles between K Falls and Fernley. They started out with a Portland to Ogden sleeping car in addition to coaches. This route required 23 hours more to get from Portland to Chicago then going via UP. So the pullman was dropped within a few months.
By September 1931 the conventional passenger train had been replaced by a Brill motor car but it didn’t work out well on the grades so was replaced by a conventional train.
Traffic was so light on the K Falls to Alturas section that the train was discontinued between those points on April 22, 1933.
Bill M.,
Thanks for that contribution. Unfortunately, the timetables I have access to are all from before September 1929 or after April 1933, so I was unable to find that information.