 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) | |
| Route | |
| Termini | Chicago, Illinois * Los Angeles, California |
| Distance travelled | 785 miles (1,263 km) (1946) (Chicago - Los Angeles, via Salt Lake City) |
| Service frequency | Daily |
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| 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)