Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 27. Chapters: Acadian (train), Argonaut (train), Arizona Limited, Cascade (train), Challenger (train), City of San Francisco (train), Coast Daylight (SP train), Del Monte (train), Golden Rocket (train), Golden State (train), Lark (train), Overland Route (Union Pacific Railroad), Sacramento Daylight, San Francisco Challenger, San Joaquin Daylight, Shasta Daylight, Sunbeam (passenger train), Sunset Limited, West Coast (passenger train). Excerpt: The Golden State Limited was a named passenger train between Chicago and Los Angeles from 1902-1968 by the Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railroad ("Rock Island") and the Southern Pacific Company (SP) and predecessors. It was named for California, the "Golden State." In the early years of the train the drumhead, or lighted sign at the end of the observation car, was primarily orange, with drawings of oranges on backlit glass. The Golden State' route was relatively low-altitude, crossing the Continental Divide at about 4,600 feet (1,400 m) near Lordsburg, New Mexico, avoiding severe winter weather. (Highest elevation en route was 6600+ feet, further east in New Mexico.) Low altitude was an advantage for patients with lung problems and other illnesses, particularly tuberculosis, for which no antibiotics were available until after World War II. Other transcontinental routes reached elevations of more than 7,000 feet (2,100 m) - the Santa Fe near Flagstaff and the Union Pacific near Sherman Hill, Wyoming. Southern Pacific (after 1924) served the Arizona winter resort, golf course, sanatorium and dude ranch areas of Tucson and Phoenix, Arizona as well as Palm Springs, California, the winter playground of many Hollywood movie stars. The Golden State route had the disadvantage of having a weak connecting and somewhat over-extended granger line (the Rock Island) serving farmland...