Overland Limited (UP train)
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The Overland Limited was an American named passenger train which for much of its history was jointly operated by three railroads on the Overland Route between San Francisco and Chicago. The Southern P
The Overland Limited leaving 16th Street Station, Oakland, in 1906
CPRR/UPRR "The Great American Over-land Route" Time Table cover (1881)
Monthly Overland 1869
Overland RR ticket office, Palace Hotel (San Francisco), c. 1890.
The Overland Route was a train route operated jointly by the Union Pacific Railroad and the Central Pacific Railroad/Southern Pacific Railroad, between the eastern termini of Council Bluffs, Iowa, and
Overland Limited (UP train)
…and often simply as the Overland) was an American named passenger train which for much of its history was jointly operated by three railroads on the Overland Route between San Francisco and Chicago. The Southern Pacific Railroad handled the train west of Ogden, Utah, the Union Pacific Railroad between Ogden and…
Display ads for the CPRR and UPRR the week the rails were joined on May 10, 1869
Donner Lake (left) and the now abandoned original CPRR (later SPRR) Track #1 grade over Donner Pass