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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 Overland Limited leaving 16th Street station (Oakland), in 1906. The Overland Route was a train route operated jointly by the Union Pacific Railroad and the Central Pacific Railroad/Southern Pacific Railroad, between the eastern termini of Council Bluffs, Iowa, and Omaha, Nebraska, [1] and the San Francisco Bay Area, over the grade of the first transcontinental railroad (aka the "Pacific ...
Seattle – Los Angeles April 1972 present Desert Wind: Ogden – Los Angeles October 28, 1979 July 15, 1983 Salt Lake City – Los Angeles July 15, 1983 May 10, 1997 Expo '74: Seattle – Spokane: May 19, 1974 September 14, 1974 Las Vegas Limited: Las Vegas – Los Angeles May 21, 1976 August 8, 1976 Metroliner: Los Angeles – San Diego April ...
The Utahn was a short-lived named passenger train operated by the Union Pacific Railroad between Cheyenne, Wyoming and Los Angeles, California that ran from 1947 to 1951. The train was unique due to its mixed-up variety of UP motive power.
Pages in category "Passenger rail transportation in Wyoming" The following 4 pages are in this category, out of 4 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. F.
The CFNR was originally owned by the Park-Sierra Rail Group (owner David L. Parkinson of St. Helena, California), who also owned the Arizona and California Railroad and the Puget Sound and Pacific Railroad. The CFNR was later sold to RailAmerica in 2002. [1] Genesee & Wyoming, another shortline holding company, bought RailAmerica in December 2012.
Most railroads opted-in and transferred their passenger rail operations to Amtrak on May 1, 1971. [23] After the Southern Railway opted-in to Amtrak in 1979, and the Denver and Rio Grande Western Railroad in 1983, Amtrak was left as the sole long-distance train operator in the US.
The City of Los Angeles was a streamlined passenger train between Chicago, Illinois, and Los Angeles, California via Omaha, Nebraska, and Ogden, Utah. Between Omaha and Los Angeles it ran on the Union Pacific Railroad; east of Omaha it ran on the Chicago and North Western Railway until October 1955 and on the Milwaukee Road thereafter. The ...