The City of San Francisco was a streamlined passenger train operated jointly by the Chicago and North Western Railway, the Southern Pacific Railroad, and the Union Pacific Railroad. The train ran between Chicago, Illinois and Oakland, California, with a ferry connection to San Francisco. Competing...
This was wartime; factories in Nevada needed to get munitions to San Francisco and on to Korea. If one train — passenger or freight — got stuck, all were delayed. Onboard the City of San Francisco. Advertised as the fastest thing on wheels between San Francisco and Chicago, t...
This site is about my HO model railroading hobby, and the Union Pacific streamliner. I am assembling City of Los Angeles and City of San Francisco consists in an attempt to represent all the accommodations in the UP light weight streamliner passenger cars.Between my COLA & COSF I have bagga...
Louis, City of San Francisco). The Portland became a highly successful streamliner following its debut as an semi-articulated trainset and convinced the UP that offering numerous on board amenities along with a sleek-looking train was the future of passenger rail travel....
The Union Pacific’s City fleet is credited with being the first lightweight streamlined passenger train to operate in the United States. In 1934 the City of Salina, the first in the fleet, debuted as a three-car lightweight trainset that the Electro-Motive Corporation named the M-10000. ...
Once again, abike rider in the UK has been seriously injured after being pushed off their bikeby a car passenger, leaving the 29-year old victim with serious facial injuries including a fractured jaw, broken teeth, and lacerations, as well as a concussion.Just to be clear, however, this...
A nearly 1,000-foot-long passenger tunnel links these concourses. The second phase, completed in 2023, involved demolishing existing structures and completing the east portion of Concourse A. The third phase, centered on the new Central Tunnel connecting Concourses A and B, opened in fall 2024...
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Now my co — passenger ___ to see the book, so I handed it to him. Minutes passed into ___ . From the train window, I ___him reading the book carefully. Towards the end of the ___. I even saw him___ everything about the book including the publishing house and code number. ...
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