Important News

By 1958, off-season ridership on the Shasta Daylight had fallen so low that Southern Pacific applied to the Interstate Commerce Commission to reduce it to three-day-a-week service. Apparently, it didn’t get permission to do so, as it sent this notice to ticket agents saying that it would continue in daily service after all.

Click image to download a 1.7-MB PDF of this flyer.

This was just a short reprieve, however, as it received permission to run the train tri-weekly in the fall and winter of 1959-1960, specifically from September 15 to December 14, 1959 and January 15 through May 28, 1960. The northbound train went on Sundays, Wednesdays, and Fridays while the southbound went Mondays, Thursdays, and Saturdays, with only the overnight Cascade, which was still daily, operating on Tuesdays.


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