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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.
Static display, Southern Arizona Transportation Museum (Southern Pacific Depot), Tucson, Arizona: 1727: M-6 2-6-0: Static display, in Dunsmuir, California at the Dunsmuir City Park and Botanical Gardens: 1744: M-6 2-6-0: The Pacific Locomotive Association purchased and began the restoration to bring No. 1744 back into operation on the Niles ...
The Southern Pacific Transportation Company was acquired in 1996 by the Union Pacific Corporation and merged with their Union Pacific Railroad. The Southern Pacific legacy founded hospitals in San Francisco, Tucson, and Houston. In the 1970s, it also founded a telecommunications network with a state-of-the-art microwave and fiber optic backbone.
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.
Pages in category "Southern Pacific Railroad locomotives" The following 69 pages are in this category, out of 69 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
Since 1863 the San Francisco Peninsula, the series of towns (and later, cities) between San Francisco and San Jose, has been served by a railroad.The San Francisco and San Jose Railroad first provided freight and passenger service, followed by its successor, the Southern Pacific, and then briefly by the California Department of Transportation (Caltrans) and finally by a regional Joint Powers ...
A 1966 study by the Stanford Research Institute found that it cost the Southern Pacific $18.41 to transport a passenger on the Coast Daylight between Los Angeles and San Francisco (equivalent to $173 in 2023), roughly twice that of air or bus service. Reasons given included the labor-intensiveness of rail service, and the fact that a single ...
The Sunbeam was a named passenger train between Houston and Dallas on the Texas and New Orleans Railroad (T&NO), a subsidiary of the Southern Pacific Railroad (SP). [1] [2] The train carried number 13 northbound and number 14 southbound. The Sunbeam began in 1925 as a heavyweight train.