The Arizona Limited was a kind of semi-train: semi-streamlined, semi-daily, operated only half the year (actually just three-and-one-half months), and by two railroads using two train sets for only two years. Each Pullman-only train set consisted of a heavyweight Rock … Continue reading
Category Archives: Southern Pacific
We’ve seen Maurice Logan’s paintings for the Southern Pacific in the form of posters. SP also issued some postcards with his paintings that are good examples of Logan’s impressionistic style of illustrating. The first shows “Lake Apache on the Apache … Continue reading
Southern Pacific had a line entering San Francisco from the south, but trains from Portland and Ogden terminated at Oakland. While passengers to Oakland and other East Bay communities got off at Oakland’s 16th Street Station, until 1958, passengers to … Continue reading
We begin the New Year with a series of posts about the Southern Pacific. Before 1926, the main line of the Southern Pacific between Portland and Sacramento went over the Siskiyou Mountains of southwest Oregon and northern California. With just … Continue reading
We’ve seen this menu cover before in Lee Paper Company’s book showing off Corinthian paper by reprinting 18 Union Pacific menu covers. In this case, the cover was used as as City of San Francisco dinner menu. Click image to … Continue reading
We’ve seen this cover before on a 1954 lunch menu. The two menus have many similarities, but also some significant differences. Click image to download a PDF of this menu. Although some prices went up slightly between 1949 and 1954, … Continue reading
We’ve already seen this cover on a 1947 lunch menu. The lunch menu was fairly ordinary, with four table d’hôte meals and a few salads, sandwiches, and other a la carte items. This breakfast menu offers more choices, with seven … Continue reading
This postcard shows the Overland Limited “observation parlor with library writing desk and stenographic service.” The “library” apparently consisted of the books in the elegant, glass-fronted cabinet and the magazines on top. The “stenographic service” was the typewriter and an … Continue reading
Much of this brochure was developed by the World’s Fair committee, and Southern Pacific added to it and adopted it for its own advertising. For example, here is the same cover but with “Admission 50¢ Children under Fourteen 25¢” in … Continue reading
This on-board letterhead has the classic Southern Pacific sunset emblem, designed in honor of the railroad’s longest route. I have it on both white paper and cream-colored paper, the latter of which comes with a matching envelope. Regardless of color, … Continue reading