This packet of sixteen color photos is similar to photo sets we’ve seen before of San Francisco, California, and the West. There was also one for the Overland Route which I’ll post tomorrow and one for the California Coast and … Continue reading
Category Archives: Southern Pacific
Southern Pacific was reputed to have excellent dining car service before passenger ridership nosedived after World War II, but you wouldn’t know it from menus such as this one. Printed on flimsy paper, it’s really just an 8-1/2″x11″ sheet folded … Continue reading
SP’s 1938 brochure for the budget-priced Californian was printed in black-and-white with red trim. For 1940, SP issued an all-new brochure printed in “natural color,” meaning Kodachrome photographs printed with the CYMK four-color process. Although this is a great improvement, … Continue reading
The San Francisco Overland Limited was one of Southern Pacific’s premiere trains. Yet this lunch menu is little more than an ordinary sheet of paper, slightly larger than 8-1/2″-by-11″, folded in thirds like a brochure. The menu is undated, but … Continue reading
Published in 1925, this booklet highlights all of California’s major attractions reached by SP: San Francisco before the Golden Gate Bridge; Monterey; Los Angeles; Carriso Gorge; San Diego; and Yosemite. The black-and-white photos are somewhat muddy but are large enough … Continue reading
This menu is undated, but the fact that it is for the Golden State Limited tells us that it from before 1947, as the train’s name was changed to just Golden State in that year. The prices on the menu … Continue reading
This was a set of ten different postcards, but I only have five of the set. The cards are linen and say nothing about a streamlined Shasta Daylight, so I would guess they were issued either right before or right … Continue reading
These postcards all show Southern Pacific streamlined trains. None appear to have been issued by SP, but most were probably issued with the railroad’s cooperation to be sold at newstands in various SP train stations. Click any image to download … Continue reading
These postcards all appear to have been issued before 1920, and all but one of them from before 1915. One of cards is Southern Pacific issue, while the others were probably issued with the cooperation of the railroad. Click any … Continue reading
Like other condensed timetables presented in the last couple of weeks, this one is just six panels long. But by 1966 those six panels display all of SP’s trains on all its routes: Sunset-Golden State take two panels; Coast, Overland, … Continue reading