Today we have the last of the Southern Pacific timetables contributed by a Streamliner Memories reader. I’m presenting three today mainly because the train schedules on all three are nearly identical even though they were separated by more than a … Continue reading
By 1969, Southern Pacific had terminated every train it was going to terminate before Amtrak would take over two years later. Aside from the San Francisco commuter trains, this left it with six daily trains: the Sunset Limited, the Coast … Continue reading
Yesterday’s remnant of a system timetable didn’t include the commuter trains SP ran between San Francisco, San Jose, and Los Gatos. They had their own timetable, such as the one shown here. Click image to download a 934-KB PDF of … Continue reading
I previously wrote that reducing SP’s system timetable from 16 to 6 pages was the “penultimate indignity.” The final indignity came in 1968, when it was reduced to just four pages. This was made possible by the discontinuance of the … Continue reading
The Shasta Daylight, which had been reduced to three days a week in the off-season in 1959, became a summer-only train in 1965, with the April 1965 timetable noting that it would operate from June 10 to September 7. SP … Continue reading
I previously mentioned that reducing SP’s system timetable from 16 to 6 pages meant sacrificing a page showing connections at Chicago and St. Louis. In 1963, that page listed two dozen trains on eight different railroads going from Chicago to … Continue reading
Yesterday’s 1965 timetable listed two trains between the San Francisco Bay Area and Chicago: the City of San Francisco and the San Francisco Overland. They were, however, the same train, as both had identical schedules. Today’s 1966 timetable gives up … Continue reading
In 1964, Southern Pacific’s timetable was subjected to what would be the penultimate indignity: the 16-page system timetable of 1963 was reduced to a six-page timetable. In effect, what had been the condensed timetable became the system timetable. I don’t … Continue reading
Having reduced its 1962 system timetable to be as small as its condensed timetables of the 1950s, SP shrunk its condensed timetable to a brochure with the equivalent of 6 pages. That’s effectively one page each for the Sunset, Golden … Continue reading
In October 1962, Southern Pacific’s system timetable lost half its pages, shrinking down to just 16. The timetable still had room for a centerfold map, a one-page station index, a half page of SP agents with a half page of … Continue reading
