By 1967, Union Pacific only had one train a day between Chicago and San Francisco and just one between Chicago and Portland. But, in addition to the combined City of Los Angeles/Challenger, this timetable still shows a second train between Chicago and Los Angeles, one that was known only as train 5 & 6.

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Primarily a mail train, in 1967 train 5 & 6 carried a sleeping car and buffet-lounge between Los Angeles and Las Vegas, giving people an opportunity to travel overnight between the two cities. It also carried a coach between Los Angeles and Omaha. At Omaha, the train connected with Milwaukee Road’s train 19 & 20 with a four-hour layover westbound and a 2-1/4-hour layover eastbound. This was obviously not a train for transcontinental travelers but east of Las Vegas it provided daytime service to many cities that were only served by the City of Los Angeles late at night.