PART 1 – SP PASSENGER TRAINS |
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By the start of the 1960s, the dining car was replaced with
an automat car and the lounge cars and sleeping cars were
removed from the Sunset. Ticket agents were ordered to tell
prospective passengers that the train no longer ran. The railroad
had gone so far as to publish anti-rail advertising to discourage
passenger ridership.
These are just a few examples of the Southern Pacific’s incon-
siderate treatment of passengers. Despite all of this, the Sunset
often ran with 13 cars during the summer season. The railroad
sometimes added a hamburger grill to the train during the peak
demand periods.
By the late 1960s, most of the trains serving Los Angeles had
been discontinued, and the extensive Mission Road Shops at
