Download or read book Of Passenger Trains on the High Iron Streamliners to the Golden State written by Daniel T Edwards and published by . This book was released on 2021-04-12 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: California has always been a destination for the traveling public. Since the days of the Big Four as they were known, the original builders and promoters of the Central Pacific, people have ridden the rails to see what the West Coast had to offer. Perhaps never more so than during the Streamliner Era of the 1950's right up until Amtrak. Trains like the Super Chief, The Rocket, California Zephyr and The Sunset Limited drew the attention of those traveling between the Midwest and Gulf Coast and the golden coast of California. This book illustrates several of the locomotives and rolling stock used during this era on these trains. Roster information is given for the locomotives shown, and general specifications for the locomotives as well. Ads are included from the era to show how the railroads communicated their trains to the public. See the beautiful color schemes applied to the locomotives and the rolling stock. Steam locomotives are shown, including the Santa Fe's "Blue Goose" as well as what many would call the most beautiful steam locomotive ever built, The Southern Pacific's Daylights. Maps are included for each railroad.So sit back and relax while you view many of America's most spectacular passenger trains from the Golden Age of American Railroading, when movie stars, businessmen and vacationers rode the High Iron to the Golden State.
Download or read book Passenger Trains of the Southern Pacific Transportation Company written by Source Wikipedia and published by Booksllc.Net. This book was released on 2013-09 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 27. Chapters: Acadian (train), Argonaut (train), Arizona Limited, Cascade (train), Challenger (train), City of San Francisco (train), Coast Daylight (SP train), Del Monte (train), Golden Rocket (train), Golden State (train), Lark (train), Overland Route (Union Pacific Railroad), Sacramento Daylight, San Francisco Challenger, San Joaquin Daylight, Shasta Daylight, Sunbeam (passenger train), Sunset Limited, West Coast (passenger train). Excerpt: The Golden State Limited was a named passenger train between Chicago and Los Angeles from 1902-1968 by the Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railroad ("Rock Island") and the Southern Pacific Company (SP) and predecessors. It was named for California, the "Golden State." In the early years of the train the drumhead, or lighted sign at the end of the observation car, was primarily orange, with drawings of oranges on backlit glass. The Golden State' route was relatively low-altitude, crossing the Continental Divide at about 4,600 feet (1,400 m) near Lordsburg, New Mexico, avoiding severe winter weather. (Highest elevation en route was 6600+ feet, further east in New Mexico.) Low altitude was an advantage for patients with lung problems and other illnesses, particularly tuberculosis, for which no antibiotics were available until after World War II. Other transcontinental routes reached elevations of more than 7,000 feet (2,100 m) - the Santa Fe near Flagstaff and the Union Pacific near Sherman Hill, Wyoming. Southern Pacific (after 1924) served the Arizona winter resort, golf course, sanatorium and dude ranch areas of Tucson and Phoenix, Arizona as well as Palm Springs, California, the winter playground of many Hollywood movie stars. The Golden State route had the disadvantage of having a weak connecting and somewhat over-extended granger line (the Rock Island) serving farmland...
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Download or read book The Great Railroad Revolution written by Christian Wolmar and published by PublicAffairs. This book was released on 2012-09-25 with total page 450 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: America was made by the railroads. The opening of the Baltimore & Ohio line -- the first American railroad -- in the 1830s sparked a national revolution in the way that people lived thanks to the speed and convenience of train travel. Promoted by visionaries and built through heroic effort, the American railroad network was bigger in every sense than Europe's, and facilitated everything from long-distance travel to commuting and transporting goods to waging war. It united far-flung parts of the country, boosted economic development, and was the catalyst for America's rise to world-power status. Every American town, great or small, aspired to be connected to a railroad and by the turn of the century, almost every American lived within easy access of a station. By the early 1900s, the United States was covered in a latticework of more than 200,000 miles of railroad track and a series of magisterial termini, all built and controlled by the biggest corporations in the land. The railroads dominated the American landscape for more than a hundred years but by the middle of the twentieth century, the automobile, the truck, and the airplane had eclipsed the railroads and the nation started to forget them. In The Great Railroad Revolution, renowned railroad expert Christian Wolmar tells the extraordinary story of the rise and the fall of the greatest of all American endeavors, and argues that the time has come for America to reclaim and celebrate its often-overlooked rail heritage.
Download or read book Annual Report of the Board of Directors of the Southern Pacific Company to the Stockholders written by Southern Pacific Company and published by . This book was released on 1931 with total page 1070 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
