City of St. Louis (train)

The City of St. Louis was a streamlinedpassenger train operated by the Union Pacific Railroad and the Wabash Railroad between St. Louis, Missouri, and Los Angeles, California. It operated from 1946 to 1971.

The City of St. Louis began operating on June 2, 1946, between St. Louis, Missouri, and Cheyenne, Wyoming, where its cars were switched to other Union Pacific trains to continue west to the Pacific coast. In April 1951 it became a separate train from St. Louis to Los Angeles, California, skipping Cheyenne; it still carried some cars to switch to trains to other coast cities. In 1964 it was combined with the City of Los Angeles west of Ogden, Utah, and in 1968 with the City of San Francisco from Cheyenne to Ogden.

Between St. Louis and Kansas City, the train ran on the Wabash Railroad, then on the Norfolk & Western which leased the Wabash in 1964. This part of the run became a separate train on June 19, 1968, retaining the City of St Louis name until its discontinuance in April 1969; after June 1968 the Union Pacific train was the City of Kansas City, which lasted until Amtrak took over on May 1, 1971.

• St. Louis^[1][2]
• Kansas City
• Topeka, Kansas
• Denver
• Ogden
  • Branch to Oakland/San Francisco via the Southern Pacific:
• Reno
• Sacramento
• Oakland (ferry connection to San Francisco)
  • Branch to Los Angeles:
• Salt Lake City
• San Bernardino
• Riverside
• Los Angeles
  • Branch to Portland & Seattle:
• Pocatello
• Boise
• Nampa
• Portland
• Tacoma
• Seattle

The original 1946 version of the train required three consists to protect its schedule. The consists contained a mix of heavyweight and lightweight equipment:

• Heavyweight baggage-mail (UP #5808-#5810)
• Three lightweight 48-seat coaches (UP #5331-#5365)
• Heavyweight dining car (UP #4627, UP #4629, or WAB #32)
• Heavyweight club-lounge (UP #1540, #1543, or #1544)
• Heavyweight 10-section, 1-drawing room, 1-compartment sleeping car
• Lightweight 4-compartment, 2-drawing room, 4-double bedroom sleeping car (UP Lakeside, Palos Verdes, or Verdugo)
• عربة نوم خفيفة الوزن مكونة من 6 أقسام، و6 غرف نوم صغيرة، و4 غرف نوم مزدوجة (UP American Army أو American Monitor أو American Trooper )
• عربة بريد ثقيلة الوزن (سلسلة UP 2200)

كانت عربة النوم 10-1-1 تعمل حتى بورتلاند، أوريغون ؛ وشملت العربات المستخدمة في هذه الخدمة: Balsam Fir ، و Douglas Fir ، وInland Empire ، و Pinion Pine ، و Poudre Lake ، و Silver Spruce . أما عربة النوم 6-4-4 فكانت تعمل حتى لوس أنجلوس. أُضيفت عربة البريد من سلسلة 2200 في دنفر، كولورادو، لخدمة شايان. ^{[ 3 ] : 158-159}

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• توماس، لورانس، "الذهاب إلى كاليفورنيا على طريق أوفرلاند"، مجلة الجمعية التاريخية لـ TRRA ، ربيع/صيف 1996.