The 56-page 1947 timetable had shrunk to 48 pages by 1952. Pages for the Sunset-Golden State routes had gone from 14 to 13; the Overland Route from 5 to 4; the Shasta Route from 7 to 5; and California routes … Continue reading
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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
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
The big change between this and the previous Shasta timetable is the addition of the Beaver. As mentioned yesterday, this was an economy train that was to the all-Pullman Cascade what the Challenger was to the Los Angeles Limited, the … Continue reading
Southern Pacific’s advertising for its “four scenic routes” leaves out the two routes between San Fransisco Bay and Los Angeles: the Coast Route and the interior San Joaquin Route. But these are featured in this timetable. Like the Shasta and … Continue reading
We’ve previously seen a June, 1938 timetable for the Shasta Route. Here’s one dated just a month later. The only change I see to Shasta Route trains is that train 18, from San Francisco-Oakland to Grants Pass, leaves and arrives … Continue reading
Southern Pacific advertising proclaimed that the railroad offered “four great routes”: Shasta, Overland, Golden State, and Sunset. But the Sunset and Golden State routes were really the same route for the first 800 miles from Los Angeles to El Paso. … Continue reading
In addition to system timetables (which, in 1936, were 56 pages long) and condensed timetables (16 pages in 1935), Southern Pacific in the 1930s produced 24-page timetables for each of its four main routes. Each appears to be a combination … Continue reading