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)
Overland RR ticket office, Palace Hotel (San Francisco), c. 1890.
The Southern Pacific was an American Class I railroad network that existed from 1865 to 1996 and operated largely in the Western United States. The system was operated by various companies under the n
Overland Limited (UP train)
…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…
SP #8912 leads a freight train in Palm Springs, California, in February 1981.
"Mr. Maguire's Stand on the Railroad Question," a caricature of Democratic gubernatorial candidate James G. Maguire published in the San Francisco Examiner depicting him triumphant over the political forces of the Southern Pacific, October 8, 1898
An EMD FP7 leads a Pacific Rail Society Special through Floriston, California, in February 1971.
SP 4449 underway, wearing the Daylight scheme (April 1981)