An early-20th-century postcard showing the Pacific Limited (right) at Oakland Long Wharf.
Overview
Service type
Inter-city rail
Status
Discontinued
Locale
Central and Western United States
First service
1913
Last service
1947
Former operator(s)
UP and CNW
UP and SP
UP and MILW
Route
Termini
Chicago, Illinois * Los Angeles, California
Oakland, California
Portland, Oregon
Distance travelled
785 miles (1,263 km) (1946) (Chicago - Los Angeles, via Salt Lake City)
Service frequency
Daily
Train number(s)
21-23-25 (westbound)
24-26-22 (eastbound)
On-board services
Seating arrangements
Reclining seat coaches (1946)
Sleeping arrangements
Open sections, double bedrooms, drawing rooms
Catering facilities
Dining car
Technical
Track gauge
4 ft 8+1⁄2 in (1,435 mm)
The Pacific Limited was an American named passenger train which from 1913 to 1947 was jointly operated by three railroads on the Overland Route between Portland, Oregon, Oakland, California, Los Angeles, California and Chicago.[1] The Southern Pacific Railroad (SP) handled the train west of Ogden, Utah, the Union Pacific Railroad (UP) between Ogden and Omaha, Nebraska, and east of the Missouri River to Chicago it was operated at different times by the Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul and Pacific Railroad (MILW) or the Chicago and North Western Railway (CNW).[2] While the train was advertised as going to San Francisco, it actually went to Oakland. Passengers completed the trip by ferry from Oakland Pier to the San Francisco Ferry Building at the foot of Market Street in San Francisco.[3]
^'Official Guide of the Railways,' May 1946, pp. 823-24 (Union Pacific section)
^Beebe, Lucius (1963). The Central Pacific & the Southern Pacific Railroads. Berkeley, California: Howell-North. pp. 616&617.
^'Official Guide of the Railways,' May 1946, pp. 864-65 (Southern Pacific section)
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