City of San Francisco

City of San Francisco

By Angela Cotey | January 10, 2025

| 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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