NAPA, Calif. – Proving that just about anything can be purchased online today, four Pullman-Standard-built passenger cars from Southern Pacific’s Shasta Daylight streamliner are being offered for sale on classified advertisements website Craigslist. According to the listing, two cars were built in 1949 and two in 1954. Prices vary from $15,000 to $23,000 and the cars can be moved by rail from Napa, north of San Francisco.
The cars were built with large “Sky View” windows for viewing scenery along the SP’s Shasta Route. Some of the cars were part of the 1984 Louisiana World’s Fair Daylight special pulled by the SP 4-8-4 No. 4449 from Portland, Ore., to New Orleans.
The Shasta Daylight was inaugurated in 1949 and operated between Oakland, Calif., and Portland. Advertised as the “Sweetheart of the Northwest,” all of its coaches, diners, and tavern cars had the large Sky View windows. The train made its last run in 1966.
Amtrak’s Coast Starlight operates over the Shasta Daylight route today.
To see the listing, go to sfbay.craigslist.org/sfc/clt/4556725592.html.
