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The Southern Pacific Railroad was replaced by the Southern Pacific Company and assumed the railroad operations of the Southern Pacific Railroad. In 1929, Southern Pacific/Texas and New Orleans operated 13,848 route-miles not including Cotton Belt, whose purchase of the Golden State Route circa 1980 nearly doubled its size to 3,085 miles (4,965 ...
Sunset Limited route map. For most of its existence, the Sunset Limited route was owned by the Southern Pacific Railroad. The name Sunset Limited traces its origins to the Galveston, Harrisburg and San Antonio Railway, a Southern Pacific subsidiary which was known as the Sunset Route as early as 1874.
[7] [8] The Sunset Route is the lowest railway that crosses the Continental Divide. [9] Coming into LaCoste, Texas in 1960. At El Paso, the Sunset Route splits off into the Golden State Route, which is another main line that Union Pacific acquired in the Southern Pacific merger that heads northeast to Kansas City, Missouri and Chicago, Illinois.
Southern Pacific routes on the Pacific Coast, 1885 A Southern Pacific train at Los Angeles' Arcade Depot, 1891 The Southern Pacific depot located in Burlingame, California, c. 1900; completed in 1894 and still in use, it was the first permanent Southern Pacific structure to be constructed in the Mission Revival Style.
The Ventura County Transportation Commission purchased the Santa Paula Branch Line within Ventura County from Southern Pacific. While a portion of the line was abandoned after being washed out in Los Angeles County, the Great Park development will provide for a route through the community of Valencia. [22]
The Cascade was a passenger train of the Southern Pacific on its route between Oakland, California, and Portland, Oregon, with a sleeping car to Seattle, Washington.The Southern Pacific started the train on April 17, 1927, soon after the opening of its Cascade Line between Black Butte, California, and Springfield, Oregon.
A southern branch split from the main route at Calexico on the San Diego Short Line. It crossed the Mexico–United States border , then made stops in Baja California at Mexicali , before returning to California, stopping in Calexico and El Centro .
This is a route-map template for the Shasta Daylight, a former Southern Pacific Railroad passenger train.. For a key to symbols, see {{railway line legend}}.; For information on using this template, see Template:Routemap.