Name of Railway L.A. to Denver or Oakland to Denver before Amtrack?

Question

I collect railway dinner ware and I can not remember the railway name for above question. I only purchase what I have traveled on. THank you

Answer 1

From Chicago's Union Station there were 2 railroads going to California by way of Denver.

The Union Pacific's City of Los Angeles and the City of SanFrancisco. Both ran on Milwaukee Road tracks from Chgo. and joined UP tracks near Omaha???

The over train was the California Zephyr. It traveled on the CB&Q tracks...later called the Burlington to Denver??? From there it ran on the Rio Grande, and Western Pacific to Oakland.

Check out the meal ticket on the site below:

http://www.vintagedepotdirect.com/vintage-railroad.html

Answer 2

Oakland eastward was the late great Southern Pacific. Depending upon when the trip was made, it would have been the City of San Francisco or the Overland.

Between LA and Okland, the train would have been any of a number of SP trains, including the Lark, the Owl, the Del Monte or the Coast Daylight.

Some of these trains were still running as late as the early 1970s, before Amtrak stepped in.

You would have travelled on SP rails until meeting up with the Union Pacific at Ogden, Utah, and continue eastward to Denver

From Oakland you might have ridden on the Western Pacific as well, on the Zephyr, connecting with the UP in Salt lake City, Utah, then on to Denver.

Though you didn't ask about any southern routes, Denver could have been reached from Oakland on Santa Fe trackage, via Santa Fe, New Mexico, or Amarillo, Texas.

In addition, out of LA the UP ran to Denver via Salt Lake City and Cheyenne, Wyoming.

Answer 3

Also, consider it might be the Denver and Rio Grande Western. It didn't go to LA or Oakland, but it did go Dever/Salt Lake.

Answer 4

The Union Pacific and California Western?

Answer 5

Are you thinking of the City of Los Angeles?