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Pages in category "Passenger trains of the Southern Pacific Transportation Company" The following 32 pages are in this category, out of 32 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
The Klamath was a passenger train of the Southern Pacific on its route between Oakland, California, and Portland, Oregon, using the line through Klamath Falls, Oregon, between Mount Shasta and Eugene, Oregon. The Southern Pacific started the train on May 1, 1929.
The Coaster was a passenger train of the Southern Pacific on its coast route between Los Angeles and San Francisco, California. Service began on December 6, 1901, as daylight coach trains number 1 and 2 called the Coast Line Limited. These trains were renumbered 21 and 22 on November 15, 1902, and renamed the Coaster on February 28, 1906 ...
The Rock Island-Southern Pacific Golden State, traveling the "low altitude route", had also serviced Arizona and the southern California (Palm Springs) resort areas since its inception on 2 November 1902. The first run of the Arizona Limited left Chicago on 15 December 1940 and provided two-night out service to Tucson and Phoenix. The train ran ...
The Beaver was a passenger train of the Southern Pacific on its route between Oakland, California, and Portland, Oregon. The Southern Pacific started the train on July 8, 1940, as an extra summer train offering economy tourist sleepers and coaches over the same route as the Cascade. The popularity of the train justified all-year service by ...
Through its life the train had olive green and black heavyweight passenger cars, pulled by steam locomotives like the GS-1 4-8-4 or MT-4 4-8-2, sometimes even a Cab Forward 4-8-8-2. In its last years the train was pulled by EMD F7 or ALCO PA/PB diesel locomotives. [citation needed]
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.
Among the Southern Pacific passenger trains running from Arizona to southern California, it was distinctive for stopping in Mexico and for having an international branch running into Mexico a second time, stopping between Calexico and San Diego. In most of the Arizona section, it passes through an area acquired by the Gadsden Purchase.