With this timetable, the City of St. Louis was gone and replaced by the City of Kansas City as the Wabash had decided to stop participating in a through train on this route. Wabash still had a St. Louis-Kansas City train that it called the City of St. Louis that connected (via a 35-minute layover) with Union Pacific’s Kansas City-Cheyenne train (which was joined with the City of Los Angeles west of Cheyenne), but there were no through cars.

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Train 27 & 28 (the former San Francisco Overland), which Union Pacific had previously truncated to Omaha-Laramie, had disappeared completely from this timetable. A look at Southern Pacific’s timetables shows that its secondary Ogden-Oakland train, which had been listed as 21 & 22 Mail in its 1967 timetable was gone from its 1968 timetable.

Although Union Pacific only had one Chicago-Portland train in 1968, it still had a second train between Cheyenne and Portland. Train 17 and 18 had once been called the Portland Rose, but it had long since lost the name or any sort of prestige. It included a sleeping car, a buffet-lounge, and coaches, but no doubt was mainly mail and express. In Cheyenne it met 5 & 6, the mail train to Los Angeles.