Sacramento Daylight

Southern Pacific Railroad service
Legend
until 1970
0mi
Sacramento
27 mi
43 km
Galt
36 mi
58 km
Lodi
48 mi
77 km
Stockton
San Joaquin Daylight
58│
93│
93 mi
150 km
Lathrop
mileage
change
113 mi
182 km
Modesto
126 mi
203 km
Turlock
151 mi
243 km
Merced
184 mi
296 km
Madera
San Joaquin River
Owl
206 mi
332 km
Fresno
250 mi
402 km
Tulare
281 mi
452 km
Delano
313 mi
504 km
Bakersfield
Tehachapi Loop
361 mi
581 km
Tehachapi
381 mi
613 km
Mojave
406 mi
653 km
Lancaster
450 mi
724 km
Saugus
Newhall Pass
Coast Daylight, Lark
& Sunset Limited
477 mi
768 km
Glendale
483 mi
777 km
Los Angeles
1970–1971
0mi
Sacramento
36 mi
58 km
Lodi
48 mi
77 km
Stockton
San Joaquin Daylight
67 mi
108 km
Tracy
San Joaquin Daylight
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The Sacramento Daylight was a named passenger train operated by the Southern Pacific Railroad, part of the family of "Daylights" which included the San Joaquin Daylight, Shasta Daylight, Coast Daylight, and Sunbeam. It carried train numbers 53 and 54.

The Southern Pacific introduced the Sacramento Daylight in 1946 as a Sacramento section of the Los Angeles—Oakland San Joaquin Daylight; the Sacramento cars were cut out at Lathrop. Around 1970[when?] the through cars ended; the train from Sacramento ran past Lathrop to Tracy and connected to the Los Angeles train there.[1] The San Joaquin/Sacramento Daylight survived until the formation of Amtrak on May 1, 1971, when they were both discontinued.[2]

References

  1. ^ Pyron, Jennifer (2010). Lathrop. Arcadia. p. 31. ISBN 9780738580173.
  2. ^ Solomon, Brian (2005). Southern Pacific Passenger Trains. MBI. pp. 55, 154. ISBN 9781610605076.

External links

  • Media related to Sacramento Daylight at Wikimedia Commons
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