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A pair of the Western Pacific's Budd Rail Diesel Cars (RDCs), replacements for the Royal Gorge (trains No. 1 and 2), also used the name Zephyrette. [ 5 ] : 26 From September 15, 1950, to October 2, 1960, they were in service between Oakland, California , and Salt Lake City , a distance of 924 miles (1,487 km), [ 6 ] which made the route the ...
The first through train from Los Angeles to Portland started in 1924 and was named West Coast in 1927, by which time it was on the Cascade Line via Klamath Falls. In California it sometimes ran on the West Valley via Orland and Davis and sometimes on the East Valley via Marysville and Roseville.
In 1941–42 the Pullman-Standard Company built two groups (60 "6-6-4" and 18 "4-1-4") of streamlined light-weight sleeping cars for the UP (54), SP (13) and C&NW (11) and three groups totaling 70 similar style head-end and chair cars for the UP for use on all their trains servicing their Overland Routes to the west coast from Los Angeles to ...
The Sunset Limited. New Orleans to Los Angeles. Amtrak's southernmost route across the West goes from Mississippi River bayous to southwestern canyons and the Sierra Nevadas in a 48-hour trip that ...
Seattle to Los Angeles. Widely regarded as the most dazzling West Coast train route in the ... Live commentary enhances the experience of the fall foliage train ride. The round-trip takes about 4 ...
The modern train is the second iteration of a train named California Zephyr; the original train was privately operated and ran on a different route through Nevada and California. During fiscal year 2023, the California Zephyr carried 328,458 passengers, an increase of 13.1% over FY2022, [ 5 ] but down from its pre- COVID-19 pandemic ridership ...
Under the plan, Dreamstar would operate between the Union Station in Los Angeles and the 4th and King Street station in San Francisco. The train would travel through California’s Central Coast region on a railroad known as the “Coast Line”, which is owned by Union Pacific and also serves Amtrak’s Coast Starlight and Pacific Surfliner. [1]
The return trip left Los Angeles at 11:30 am arriving in Chicago at 11:30 am the second morning. In July 1954 it left Chicago at 2:15 pm CST and arrived Los Angeles the second day at 7:30 am. The return trip left Los Angeles at 1:30 pm and arrived the second day at 9:55 am. In later years the arrival in Phoenix, for example, was late in the ...