Overland Route Passenger Trains — 1947-1971

Description

This 250-page book features a very comprehensive history including train consists taken from actual records, major depot arrival/departure records and hundreds of passenger train and passenger car photos, both in vivid color and sharp historical black and white. Overland Route passenger train operations of the Union Pacific, Southern Pacific, Chicago & North Western and Milwaukee Road are covered. The timeline stretches from post-War 1947, when the consists were divided up, until the coming of Amtrak on May 1, 1971. Amtrak operations on the Overland Route are covered in a separate chapter.