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Southern Pacific passenger trains remembered

By Angela Cotey | February 15, 2022

| Last updated on February 18, 2022

View images of passenger service on the Sunset, Golden State, Overland, and Shasta routes

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A black locomotive with an orange and red stripe coming down the tracks
A black and white photo of passengers getting off a locomotive
A black and white photo of a locomotive turning a corner with mountains in the background
A black and white photo of a locomotive moving pass mountains
A close up black and white photo of a dome lounge car sitting on the tracks
A black and white distant photo of locomotives sitting in a rail yard
A black and white photo of a locomotive turning a corner
A black locomotive with an orange and red stripe coming down the tracks
A black and white photo of passengers getting off a locomotive
A black and white photo of a locomotive turning a corner with mountains in the background
A black and white photo of a locomotive moving pass mountains
A close up black and white photo of a dome lounge car sitting on the tracks
A black and white distant photo of locomotives sitting in a rail yard
A black and white photo of a locomotive turning a corner
A distant black and white photo of a locomotive crossing a bridge
A black and white photo of the passengers sitting inside a train
A close up picture of an orange train passing by
A black and white photo of a diesel car sitting on the tracks
A black and white photo of two locomotives on the same track together with black smoke coming out of their chimneys
A black and white photo of two locomotives leaving a station
A black and white photo of passengers inside a coffee-shop lounge car
An orange and yellow locomotive turning the corner on a bridge
A black and white overhead photo of locomotives and people at a station
A black and white photo of a locomotive turning a corner next to a lake
A black and white photo of two ladies and one gentleman sitting inside a dome car
A silhouette of two people looking out a window looking at a train pass by
A black and white picture of a sunbeam car being washed by a machine
Passengers boarding an orange and red locomotive
A black and white overhead picture of a locomotive passing through a city in Texas
A black and white photo of a locomotive turning a corner
An orange and red locomotive sitting on the tracks next to some telephone polls
SP’s Coast Daylight
GS-4 4452 with Los Angeles–San Francisco Morning Daylight, late 1940s.
Linn H. Westcott

All through February 2022, Classic Trains editors are celebrating the history and heritage of the Southern Pacific Lines. Please enjoy this photo gallery of Southern Pacific passenger trains selected from the image files in Kalmbach Media’s David P. Morgan Library.

This gallery was first published in January 2019.

One thought on “Southern Pacific passenger trains remembered”

  1. The heading specifies photos of passenger trains on the Sunset, Golden State, Overland and Shasta routes, but then starts off with the COAST daylight. There are several more images throughout of passenger trains on the Coast and Valley routes, along with others of the routes specified. However, all captions seem to be correct, except that the caption for image 21 of 24 erroneously identifies the train as the Coast Daylight. Actually, by evidence of the smooth-side car being boarded and the high-placed letterboard of the following Parlor car, the train being boarded must actually be the Shasta Daylight; therefore certainly not in Santa Barbara.

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