from 17–18 car consists with a dome lounge, triple-unit coffee shop-diner and parlor observation, the latter train, shortly before its discontinuance, has only six cars. By the 1960s, the Coast Daylight was running with “Bloody Nose” red-and-gray decorated F7s and a string of coaches, a snack car, and parlor observation — all painted silver with a bold red stripe at the top of the cars with “Southern Pa- cific” in white across the letter boards. The less attractive scarlet and gray liv- ery of the diesels begins to appear in the middle of the book. This scheme is seen on Electro-Motive Division (EMD) E7s and F7s, as well as Alco PAs. For the San Francisco commuter runs, freight GP9s in the same bland colors are used. Many of the lesser routes are seen with F-units sporting the very familiar black, orange, and silver “Black Widow” scheme. These are illustrated on named trains includ- ing the Klamath, Golden State, Over- land, West Coast, and others showing many of the lesser-known Southern Pa- cific passenger trains. Another different look at the SP’s pas- senger service is covered with the SP
subsidiary, Northwestern Pacific, run- ning in northern California. The Red- wood began as a fairly thriving enter- prise with ten trains a day. By 1957, the Redwood was down to a tri-weekly day train with a pair of ex-Texas & New Or- leans 44-seat coaches. In 1959, the run was converted to an RDC, and a pho- to essay shows the run between Willits and Eureka. A nice shot is the meeting in Willits with the California Western’s Skunk rail car service, which ran to the coast at Fort Bragg. Surprisingly, the Redwood survived until the start of Am- trak, when service was not retained by the new nationwide passenger system. Toward the end of Southern Pacif-
ic’s passenger service, the trains were pulled with EMD SDP45s painted in the then-familiar and standard gray with a red nose. The San Francisco Peninsula commuter service was handled by Fair- banks-Morse TrainMasters, and dou- ble-deck coaches finished in silver. The book concludes with a look at
the SP passenger service taken over by Amtrak in May 1971. At this time, most of the railroad’s major routes were still being operated. The author states that,
during the run-up to Amtrak, SP pre- ferred not to have any of its routes in- cluded in the new company. However, protests from various communities that had been left off the initial system map resulted in Amtrak keeping the Coast Line, Cascade, Overland, and Sunset routes. For those interested in passenger op- erations, whether Southern Pacific or just in general, this is a very well-done book. The full-color photographs are excellent, being from a number of well- known rail photographers; and the cap- tions are very informative, telling of the trains and the area they are traveling through, as well as the date of the pho- to. The entire route of the Southern Pa- cific’s passenger operations are shown, from Portland, Oregon, to New Orleans, Louisiana, with the many stations and scenery of the specific areas. — DENIS DUNNING
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