Overland Limited (UP train)
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.
Overland Route (Union Pacific Railroad)
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 Omaha, Nebraska, and the San Francisco Bay Area, over the grade of the first transcontinental railroad which opened on May 10, 1869. Passenger trains that operated over the line included the Overland Flyer, later renamed the Overland Limited, which also included a connection to Chicago.
The Overland Limited leaving 16th Street station (Oakland), in 1906
Display ads for the CPRR and UPRR the week the rails were joined on May 10, 1869
The Overland's SF ticket office at the Palace Hotel
Donner Lake (left) and the now abandoned original CPRR (later SPRR) Track #1 grade over Donner Pass