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| Last updated on August 7, 2025
The joint Southern Pacific-Union Pacific-Chicago & North Western City of San Francisco crosses the Lucin Cutoff across the Great Salt Lake. Introduced in 1936, the train covered the 2,258 miles between Chicago and Oakland, Calif., in less than 40 hours.
Southern Pacific photo
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A renowned streamlined through passenger train that lasted until 1971 on the Overland Route… The combined diesel power unit in the photo appears to be an EMC E2.
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