Download Image of Sunset Limited, Southern Pacific Ry. This is a wonderful scholarly study: remarkably thorough, ambitious, and gracefully rendered." Requires Trainz-Forge's SP GS Locomotives & Coast Daylight Cars . Still, like its sister long distance train, the Shasta Daylight, the Sunset featured themes of the regions in which it operated such as a lounge car highlighting the French Quarter in New Orleans. [21], In June 2019, the Federal Railroad Administration announced a grant award of $33 million to restore Amtrak service between New Orleans and Mobile, and to upgrade tracks, stations, and other facilities to support improved passenger rail service. [17] It was to have the Texas Eagle operate over the Sunset's route west of San Antonio, with a stub train connecting San Antonio (with a cross-platform transfer) and New Orleans. If you are researching anything EMD related please visit this page first. The website contains everything from historic (fallen flags) to contemporary (Class I's, regionals, short lines, and even some museums/tourist lines) rosters, locomotive production information, technical data, all notable models cataloged by the five major builders (American Locomotive, Electro-Motive, General Electric, Fairbanks-Morse, and Baldwin), and much more. After traveling through west Texas overnight, it separates from the Texas Eagle in San Antonio. The Southern Pacific Railroad has a whole host of renowned achievements it is credited with, far too many Just type in a town or city and click on the timeline of maps at the bottom of the page! When combined with the Sunset Limited, the Texas Eagle is numbered as 421 westbound and 422 eastbound. One of the most prolific of these was W. H. Bull, the creator of this 1898 poster promoting the Southern Pacific Company's famed "Sunset Limited" passenger train between New Orleans and California. 94, March 1900, p. 21. "Taken at Fingal, Cal., where the world-renowned "Sunset Limited" trains pass each other. The train was dieselized in late 1949. Wilton, California: Signature Press. The Daylight Fleet:  (San Francisco - Los Angeles), Golden State:  (Los Angeles - Chicago via Tucumcari in conjunction with the Rock Island). For the remainder of the week, the Texas Eagle runs independently between Chicago and San Antonio. The old sleeping cars were pulled out of storage and cleaned up, and the Pride of Texas cars were rebuilt from hamburger-grills back to their original coffee-shop/lounge configurations. For the Cormac McCarthy play, see, Amtrak national timetable, May 1, 1971, Table 26, Learn how and when to remove this template message, Galveston, Harrisburg and San Antonio Railway, "Amtrak FY16 Ridership & Revenue Fact Sheet", https://media.amtrak.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/FY19-Year-End-Ridership.pdf, "Amtrak Fiscal Year 2009, Oct. 2008-Sept. 2009", "AMTRAK SETS RIDERSHIP RECORD AND MOVES THE NATION'S ECONOMY FORWARD", http://www.timetables.org/browse/?group=19710501&item=0027, "At least one dead, 100-plus injured in Amtrak derailment", "Sunset Limited Schedule; Effective November 3, 2019", "Amtrak changes the Sunset Limited schedule: Positives, Negatives, and they agreed to WHAT? Alas, in 2013 the site closed by thankfully Don Strack rescued the data and transferred it over to his UtahRails.net site (another fine resource). However, this all changed in 1950 when the train was upgraded Before the start of Amtrak on May 1, 1971, the Sunset Limited was operated by the Southern Pacific Railroad. [9] Initially, the Sunset Limited was an all-Pullman train, with sleeping cars and no coaches, running from New Orleans to San Francisco via Los Angeles. "Sunset Limited illuminates not only the workings and ambitions of the Southern Pacific railroad but teaches us a great deal about the late nineteenth and early twentieth century American West as well. Also just like the Pennsy the Southern Pacific (also referred to affectionately as the “Espee” by railfans and historians after its SP reporting marks) has such a history that entire libraries of books could be written on the differing aspects of the railroad. SP San Joaquin Daylight (6/1/1945) - DOWNLOAD HERE. shop lounge (later this was switched to a hamburger grill lounge), and Steam occasionally appeared on the Sunset Limited until 1953. [11], A 1929 consist included:[citation needed]. The westbound train leaves New Orleans just after rush hour, arriving in Lafayette at lunchtime and just after the afternoon rush in Houston. The Sunset Limited was an interesting affair. In October 1970, SP reduced the Sunset to a tri-weekly schedule, but with full dining and sleeping car service returning over the entire route. additional 17-hour train ride. train's service all of the way to Florida as it was one of the carrier's 50+ years of its life using heavyweight, non-streamlined equipment. Pacific Fruit Express. If one chose to reach NYC in this manner they could expect an It is difficult to truly articulate just how much material can be found at this website. Thus re-equipped, the "new" Sunset began operating on its tri-weekly schedule on October 1, 1970. Southern Pacific Co. "Sunset Route": California, Texas, Mexico, Arizona Creator Southern Pacific Railroad Company Contributor Poole Brothers, map engravers Date Created and/or Issued 1893 Publication Information [American Bank Note Company] Los Angeles: Occidental College Library, 2008 Contributing Institution Occidental College Library Collection On October 9, 1995, saboteurs derailed the Sunset Limited near Harqua, Arizona by removing 29 spikes from a section of track, and short-circuited the signal system to conceal the sabotage. A popular pastime for many is studying and/or exploring abandoned rights-of-way. If you are researching active or abandoned corridors you might want to check out the, You will be hard pressed at finding a better online resource regarding diesel locomotives than Craig Rutherford's, Andre Kristopans put together a web page highlighting virtually every unit every out-shopped by General Motors' Electro-Motive Division. Having received a commitment of support from the City of Mobile, if the state of Alabama participates, service could be extended to downtown Mobile. 4412 Southern Pacific introduced the streamline Daylight, between Los Angeles and San Francisco, on March 1, 1937. Until 1950 the train was pulled by 4-6-2 Pacific type and 4-8-4 GS-1 Northern type steam locomotives between New Orleans and El Paso, and by 4-8-2 MT-4 Mountain type and 4-8-4 GS-4 Northern type steam locomotives between El Paso and Los Angeles/San Francisco. main lines which continue as important arteries under Union Pacific Southern Pacific E9A #6047, in addition to a B-B-A set of E7's, leads train #1, the westbound "Sunset Limited" (New Orleans - Los Angeles) near Ocotillo, Arizona on a December morning in 1959. Alabama's share would have been $5.3 million. The Sunset Limited is the oldest named train in the United States, operating since November 1894 along the Sunset Route (though originally named the Sunset Express). In 1930, the route was cut back to Los Angeles and the train carried coaches for the first time; it would never be all-sleeper again. The Southern Pacific’s Sunset dates all of the way back to the 19th century when the railroad inaugurated the train in 1894 to serve a corridor across the vast reaches of its system, connecting Los Angeles with New Orleans. It is an excellent resource with thousands of historic maps on file throughout the country. It said that it could not apply for the Federal Railroad Administration's (FRA) fiscal-year 2017 Consolidated Rail Infrastructure Safety and Improvements (CRISI) funding because Alabama and Mississippi were unwilling to assist with funds. Thompson, Anthony W. (1992). Das zusammen mit der Central Pacific Railroad und nach der Fusion mit der Denver and Rio Grande Western Railroad betriebene Streckennetz wurde unter dem Namen Southern Pacific Lines vermarktet. The train uses the following route segments, identified here by the names of their original owners: Service on the Sunset Limited between New Orleans and Florida has been suspended since August 29, 2005 because the rail line in the path of Hurricane Katrina east of New Orleans was washed out. Directed by James H. White. OCLC 48551573. For many years Amtrak had extended the Sunset from New Orleans into Florida's western panhandle. This made Phoenix one of the nation's largest cities without direct passenger service; although the designated Phoenix-area stop is in Maricopa, a suburban community about 40 miles (64 km) south of downtown Phoenix. Train 2 near Dragoon, Arizona approx 1989 (11548429173).jpg 900 × 594; 458 KB. For most of its existence, the Sunset Limited route was owned by the Southern Pacific Railroad. Most of the current route from New Orleans westward is now owned by the Union Pacific Railroad, which acquired Southern Pacific in 1996. Along with the Sunset other well-known "Espee" passenger trains include the legendary Daylights, the Lark, Imperial, Del Monte, Starlight, and the joint Rock Island Golden State among many others. At San Antonio, a through coach and a through sleeper from the Texas Eagle combine with the Sunset Limited for the journey westward and split eastward. to the fact that it reached New Orleans and covered a distance of over The Southern Pacific Argonaut ran along with the Sunset Limited train, from New Orleans to Los Angeles. The crime still remains unsolved. Im Jahr 1996 wurde die Southern Pacific Railroad durch die Union Pacific Railroad übernommen. Meanwhile, on April 4, 1993, passenger service was reestablished along the entire New Orleans—Jacksonville corridor with the extension of the Sunset Limited to Miami, using the route of Amtrak's Silver Meteor south of Jacksonville; it was serviced at Amtrak's Hialeah yards for the return trip. All content copyright American-Rails.com (unless otherwise noted). today, the Overland Route (San Francisco to the Midwest), the Golden Today, the Sunset Limited Southern Pacific was as good as its word. Stops were planned for all of the stations formerly part of the Sunset Limited's route between those two cities. By 1968, the once proud streamliner had three cars: a baggage car, a coach and an automat lunch counter car. Before the start of Amtrak on May 1, 1971, the Sunset Limited was operated by the Southern Pacific Railroad. 150 feet"--Edison films catalog, no. livery (later, FP7s took over the train sporting the SP’s red and gray The other two embarked from Chicago and St. Louis. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading Sunset Limited: The Southern Pacific Railroad and the Development of the American West, 1850-1930. Switch is then turned, and the train passes on, slowly receding from view. According to Southern Pacific Historic Diesels, Volume 9, Alco PA and PB Passenger Locomotives by Joseph Strapac, the PAs which initially operated on the Texas and New Orleans all went to the Pacific Lines by 1959 or 1960. The Sunset Limited & The City of New Orleans.jpg 2,408 × 1,551; 783 KB. A 1952 consist of the "Sunset Limited." Pacific had all but given up on passenger service, a sad end to a once The three states' cooperation was needed to secure the $35.5 million in federal CRISI funds. However, most of the route within Louisiana itself was sold to BNSF Railway in 1995 in return for BNSF not objecting to the UP-SP merger. Westbound trains leave New Orleans on Monday, Wednesday and Saturday. One runs on a side track, and the other dashes by at a high rate of speed. Southern Pacific's official timetable the Sunset could make the run between New Orleans and Los Angeles in 42 hours flat carrying an average train speed of nearly 50 mph. The Sunset was the Espee's premier train serving Los Angeles and the Deep South at New Orleans; the train remained part of the railroad's passenger fleet through the end and was retained by Amtrak when the carrier began service in 1971. | ISBN: 9780520200197 | Kostenloser Versand für … Switch is then turned, and the train passes on, slowly receding from view." If you are researching active or abandoned corridors you might want to check out the United States Geological Survey's (USGS) Historical Topographic Map Explorer. quite as luxurious as rival western trains like the Super Chief or City of San Francisco. Southern Pacific took exceptional pride in this train because it traveled solely on SP rails for its whole journey - unlike other trains which were joint efforts with other railroads. The Southern Pacific line from Los Angeles to El Paso was completed in May 1881; the Golden State ran on the El Paso and Northeastern Railroad from Tucumcari, New Mexico, to El Paso. 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