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An interesting idea! The "Inland Starlight"! Was there ever a train that did this, ie LA to PDX/SEA via SLC?
In 1960, my family wanted to travel from Los Angeles to Pendleton, Oregon. The Southern Pacific offered no family fare discount on the coastal routes, so we traveled UP eastbound from Los Angeles to Green River, Wyoming on the Challenger and then changed to the City of Portland westbound to Pendleton. It was a 3-4 hour layover as I recall and it was a train watching paradise for me as a 14 year old, streamliners and freight trains every few minutes.
-------------------- Railrev Escondido, CA Posts: 99 | From: Escondido, California | Registered: Jul 2003
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@railrev My dream train--and I know it isn't gonna happen as part of Amtrak--would be an all BNSF/BNSF traffic rights train either from Emeryville or LAX to Portland via the Feather River Canyon, Bend OR, Columbia River Gorge, etc.
I was under the impression the "Owl" train was Oakland to LA..but I'm not sure.
And us "right coast" guys (Gil?) were undet the impression that the "Owl" was a sleeper-only run on the New Haven, NY (GCT) to Boston (So. Station).
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Several train names got used in more than one place. There was Southern's Southerner, their premier train, initially a coach only streamliner. Missouri Pacific also had a Southerner in the 50's to early 60's which was a secondary train on the St. Louis to Texas route.
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