Here’s the Coast Route edition of the six-panel condensed timetable we’ve previously seen. Unlike the Sunset-Golden State edition, which also lists the West Coast of Mexico route, or the Shasta Route edition, which also summarized the Coast Route trains, this … Continue reading
This 56-page timetable should be a complete record of Southern Pacific passenger trains in 1947. Fourteen pages cover the Sunset/Golden State routes; the Overland Route requires just five pages; seven pages for the Shasta Route; twelve pages for California routes … Continue reading
The centerfold of this little booklet has room for two simple meals each for breakfast, dinner, and supper, plus some a la carte items. Dinner entrées included lamb chop or egg; supper included bacon and egg or hot vegetable plate. … Continue reading
The United States had entered World War II by the time yesterday’s issue of West came out, but the editors of that issue didn’t know that when they were putting it together. They certainly knew by July, 1942, when this … Continue reading
Here’s another issue of West without a cover date, but it does have a date of “1-1-42” in tiny print on the back cover. The interior pages include the Sunset Route north of the border, including the Alamo, New Orleans, … Continue reading
This issue of West features California’s coast between San Francisco and San Diego. Special emphasis is given to Monterey, with its “five superb golf courses,” and Santa Barbara. Monterey has at least 20 golf courses today, some of which are … Continue reading
This is the same six-panel format as yesterday’s timetable, yet only two panels are devoted to trains on the Shasta Route. Two more pages cover trains between San Francisco/Oakland and Los Angeles. There’s also a half page of connecting trains … Continue reading
This timetable unfolds to six 8″x9″ panels, the equivalent of one-fourth of the 1937 Sunset-Golden State timetable. Two of the six panels are devoted to westbound Sunset/Golden State trains and two eastbound. A fifth panel shows the West Coast of … Continue reading
This edition of West is undated and offers few clues about its date. The back cover photo is identical to the front cover photo of a 1940 issue, which seems tacky but also hints that some time must have passed. … Continue reading
This is another undated issue of West, but it does say that the Beaver is a popular train to which SP will add more streamlined cars “this summer.” Since a previous edition informed us that the Beaver began operating in … Continue reading
