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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.
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 ...
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 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 ...
Wyoming Railway: WYO 1909 1953 N/A Wyoming Central Railway: CNW: 1885 1891 Fremont, Elkhorn and Missouri Valley Railroad: Wyoming Colorado Railroad: WYCO 1987 2007 none Line scrapped in 2007, the division in the state of Oregon is still in operation, however. Wyoming and Missouri River Railroad: 1895 1924 Wyoming and Missouri River Railway
Last had passenger service in 1968, when the Florida East Coast Railroad ended its operations. The last interstate trains were in 1963 when the East Coast Champion and City of Miami routes were moved inland from the Atlantic Coast. The Havana Special ended entirely that year. Amtrak trains stop at DeLand Station, 28 miles (45 km) to the west.
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.