Passenger Train Articles in SP Trainline

Detailed articles about a number of Southern Pacific passenger trains have been published in SP Trainline, the quarterly journal of the Souther Paciific Historical and Technical Society. Below is a bibliography of these articles organized by train.

1,2 (Sunset Limited)

3,4 (Golden State)

Ryan, Dennis and Mike Jarel. "The Streamlined Golden State." SP Trainline, Spring 1999 (No. 59), pp. 8-38.
Jarel, Mike. "Diesel Power for the Golden State." SP Trainline, Spring 1999 (No. 59), pp. 39-45.

5,6 (Argonaut)

9,10 (Shasta Daylight)

Lancaster, Jim. "The Shasta Daylight: From Sweetheart of the Northwest to Unwanted Child." SP Trainline, Fall 1999 (No. 61), pp. 8-24.
Lancaster, Jim. "Railway Post Office Cars on the Shasta Route." SP Trainline, Fall 1999 (No. 61), pp. 25-26.

11,12 (Cascade)

Lancaster, Jim. "The Lightweight Cascades: Two Decades of Operations and Consists." SP Trainline, Winter 1997 (No. 54), pp. 8-22.
Jarel, Mike. "Cascade Club." SP Trainline, Winter 1997 (No. 54), pp. 22-28.
Lancaster, Jim. "Railway Post Office Cars on the Shasta Route." SP Trainline, Fall 1999 (No. 61), pp. 25-26.

13,14 (Beaver)

17,18 (Oregonian)

19,20 (Klamath)

21,22 (Oakland-Ogden mail)

27,28 (Overland)

39,40 (Imperial)

Bray, Pat. "Train Nos. 39 and 40, The Imperial: One of SP's Tarnished Varnish." SP Trainline, Summer 2003 (No. 76), pp. 17-30.

51,52 (San Joaquin Daylight)

53,54 (Sacramento Daylight)

Jarel, Mike; photos by Robert Hale, M.D. "Forty Minutes at Lathrop." SP Trainline, Summer 2002 (No. 72), pp. 9-17.

57,58 (Owl)

King, Sheldon. "The Owl." SP Trainline, Winter 2003 (No. 74), pp. 17-40.

59,60 (West Coast)

69,70 (Coaster)

71,72 (San Francisco Passenger/Los Angeles Passenger, Coast Mail)

73,74 (Oakland Lark)

75,76 (Lark)

77,78 (Del Monte)

Lagorio, Elmer. "The Remarkable Oliver Millet." SP Trainline, Winter 1998 (No. 58), pp. 13-18.
Munger, Don. "SP 2946, the Oliver Millet." SP Trainline, Winter 1998 (No. 58), pg. 18.

94,95 (Starlight)

96,97 (Noon Daylight)

98,99 (Daylight, Morning Daylight, Coast Daylight)

101,102 (City of San Francisco)

X (Suntan Special)

Signor, John R. "The Suntan Special." SP Trainline, Spring 2006 (No. 87), pp. 8-14.

2-99 (Khrushchev Special)

Signor, John R. "The Khrushchev State Department Special." SP Trainline, Spring 2003 (No. 75), pp. 22-28.
Martin, Eugene S. " Breakfast Menu for 1959 Khrushchev Special Train." SP Trainline, No. 21.

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