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 Pacific Railroad handled the train west of Ogden, Utah, the Union Pacific Railroad between Ogden and Omaha, Nebraska/Council Bluffs, Iowa, and east of the Missouri River to Chicago it was operated by the Chicago and North Western Railway as well as, for a few years starting in 1955, by the Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul and Pacific Railroad.
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.
Butch Cassidy
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Robert LeRoy Parker, better known as Butch Cassidy, was an American train and bank robber and the leader of a gang of criminal outlaws known as the "Wild Bunch" in the Old West.
The log cabin in Circleville, Utah, where Robert LeRoy Parker grew up
The building that housed the San Miguel Valley Bank, the site of Cassidy's first bank robbery in 1889.
Cassidy's mugshot from the Wyoming State Prison in 1894