Track
7—The Northwest and Pacific Coast
This section focuses upon passenger
service along
the Pacific Coast, as well as through passenger service from Chicago
and the Midwest to the Pacific Northwest
The
Trains:
The Cascade
Overnight service between San
Francisco and Portland, Oregon (with connections to Seattle) operated
by the Southern Pacific.
The Cascade
- August, 1950
The City
of Portland
The original long-distance streamliner
was operated by Union Pacific and its partner railroads between Chicago
and Portland.
City
of Portland - May, 1936
City of
Portland - July, 1956
The Empire Builder
Named in honor of its founder J. J.
Hill, this was the Great Northern's flagship train between Chicago and
Seattle/Portland.
Empire
Builder - June, 1947
Empire
Builder
- July, 1956
The Golden
Gates
Santa
Fe's pioneering intermodal service featured bus connections from Los
Angeles to Bakersfield, these streamlined trains from Bakersfield to
Oakland, and bus service across the Bay to San Francisco.
Golden
Gates
- June, 1941
The
Lark
Southern
Pacific's overnight service along the Coast Line between Los Angeles
and San Francisco.
The
Lark - March, 1968
The Olympian Hiawatha
The
Milwaukee Road's long-distance flagship on it's Pacific Extension
between Chicago and Seattle/Tacoma.
Olympian
Hiawatha - July, 1956
The Rogue River
Local service between Portland and
Ashland,
Oregon, which was the last passenger service operated via Southern
Pacific's Siskiyou Line.
Rogue
River
- April, 1955
The San
Diegans
Santa Fe's streamliner service on its
"Surf
Line" between Los Angeles and San Diego.
San Diegans
- May, 1957
The San
Joaquin
Daylight
Service
on Southern Pacific's interior route through the San Joaquin Valley
from Los Angeles to Oakland via Bakersfield and Fresno.
San
Joaquin
Daylight - August, 1944
The Shasta
Daylight
Companion train to the Cascade,
this was Southern Pacific's daytime train between Portland and
Oakland/San Francisco.
Shasta
Daylight - August, 1950
The Spokane
Union
Pacific operated extensive coordinated service in eastern Washington
state and western Idaho, and this overnight train between its namesake
city and Portland was the link which held it all together.
The Spokane - July, 1954
The Western Star
Inaugurated in 1951 to replace the Oriental Limited
as Great Northern's secondary train on the St. Paul to Seattle run,
with through cars to Chicago via the Burlington and to Portland via S.
P. & S.
Western Star - July, 1966
See Also:
Track 5: The Coast
Daylight and the
North Coast Limited
Track 12: The Camas Prairie Railroad
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material and page design copyright 2006-2012 by Eric H. Bowen. Page
modified 2012-11-05.
