Index of Conventional Trains Operated 1946-1971
This page written by J. Stephen (Steve) Sandifer
Where starting dates are shown before 1945, these are dates a train began as a "name" train or, if it was not a "name" train, the date it began operating with its present number and route.
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Train Number(s) |
Dates Operating |
Endpoint |
Endpoint |
Name |
|
1 & 2 |
1916-1949 |
Chicago |
Los Angeles |
Scout |
|
1 North |
1940-1947 |
Barstow |
Oakland |
Scout |
|
2 North |
1936-1949 |
Oakland |
Barstow |
Scout |
|
1(102) & 2(101) |
1949-1950 |
Kansas City |
Denver |
Centennial State |
|
1(102) & 2(101) |
1950-1954 |
La Junta |
Denver |
|
|
1 & 2 |
1954-1971 |
Chicago |
Oakland |
San Francisco Chief |
|
3 & 4 |
1892-1954 |
Chicago |
Los Angeles |
California Limited |
|
3 & 4 |
1954 |
Kansas City |
Belen |
|
|
3 & 4 |
1954-1955 |
Kansas City |
Carlsbad |
|
|
3 & 4 |
1955-1958 |
Kansas City |
Los Angeles |
|
|
3 & 4 |
1958-1967 |
Kansas City |
Gallup / Winslow |
|
|
4 North |
1949-1954 |
Oakland |
Barstow |
California Limited |
|
5 & 6 |
1916-1948 |
Chicago |
Galveston |
Ranger |
|
5 & 6 |
1948-1949 |
Newton |
Galveston |
Ranger |
|
5 & 6 |
1949-1950 |
Chicago |
Galveston |
|
|
5 & 6 |
1950-1954 |
Kansas City |
Galveston |
|
|
5 & 6 |
1954-1955 |
Chicago |
Galveston |
|
|
5 & 6 |
1955-1957 |
Kansas City |
Galveston |
|
|
5 & 6 |
1957-1960 |
Kansas City |
Houston |
|
|
6 North |
1947-1958 |
Oakland |
Bakersfield |
|
|
7 & 8 |
1915-1967 |
Chicago |
Los Angeles |
Fast Mail Express |
|
7 North |
1947-1967 |
Barstow |
Oakland |
Fast Mail Express |
|
8 North |
1954-1965 |
Bakersfield |
Barstow |
|
|
8 North |
1965-1967 |
Richmond |
Barstow |
|
|
9(90) & 10(101) |
1940-1947 |
Kansas City |
Denver |
|
|
9(90) & 10(101) |
1947-1949 |
Newton |
Denver |
Centennial State |
|
9 |
1950-1968 |
Chicago |
Kansas City |
Kansas City Chief |
|
10 |
1950-1957 |
Kansas City |
Chicago |
Kansas City Chief |
|
11 |
1938-1957 |
Chicago |
Oklahoma City |
Kansas Cityan |
|
11 |
1957-1960 |
Kansas City |
Oklahoma City |
Kansas Cityan |
|
11 |
1960-1968 |
Kansas City |
Dallas |
Kansas Cityan |
|
12 |
1938-1960 |
Oklahoma City |
Chicago |
Chicagoan |
|
12 |
1960-1968 |
Dallas |
Chicago |
Chicagoan |
|
13 |
1955-1958 |
Chicago |
Kansas City |
|
|
14 |
1955-1957 |
Kansas City |
Chicago |
|
|
13 & 14 |
1925-1968 |
Albuquerque |
El Paso |
Express/El Pasoan |
|
13(130) & 14(141) |
1940-1956 |
La Junta |
Denver |
|
|
14 & 15 |
1901-1968 |
Williams |
Grand Canyon |
|
|
15 & 16 |
1932-1948 |
Newton |
Galveston |
Fast 15 / Chicago Express |
|
15 & 16 |
1948-1967 |
Chicago |
Galveston |
Texas Chief |
|
15 & 16 |
1967- |
Chicago |
Houston |
Texas Chief |
|
17 & 18 |
1935- |
Chicago |
Los Angeles |
Super Chief (El Capitan) |
|
19 & 20 |
1926-1968 |
Chicago |
Los Angeles |
Chief |
|
21 & 22 |
1938-1958 |
Chicago |
Los Angeles |
El Capitan |
|
23 & 24 |
1929-1954 |
Chicago |
Los Angeles |
Grand Canyon |
|
23 & 24 |
1954-1955 |
Kansas City |
Los Angeles |
Grand Canyon |
|
23 & 24 |
1955 |
Kansas City |
Belen / Albuquerque |
Grand Canyon |
|
23 & 24 |
1955-1958 |
Kansas City |
Winslow |
Grand Canyon |
|
23 & 24 |
1963-1971 |
Chicago |
Los Angeles |
Grand Canyon |
|
23 North |
1933-1954 |
Barstow |
Oakland |
Grand Canyon |
|
23 North |
1954-1955 |
Barstow |
Bakersfield |
Grand Canyon |
|
24 North |
1938-1947 |
Oakland |
Barstow |
Grand Canyon |
|
24 North |
1947-1955 |
Bakersfield |
Barstow |
Grand Canyon |
|
25 & 26 |
1936-1954 |
Clovis |
Carlsbad |
Cavern |
|
25 & 26 |
1955-1967 |
Clovis |
Carlsbad |
|
|
25 & 26 |
1949-1950 |
Belen |
Albuquerque |
Scout |
|
27 & 28 |
1927-1948 |
Kansas City |
FW |
Antelope |
|
27 & 28 |
1948-1954 |
Kansas City |
Oklahoma City |
Antelope |
|
42 & 47 |
1928-1969 |
Ash Fork |
Phoenix |
|
|
42 |
1942-1953 |
Los Angeles |
San Bernardino |
|
|
45 |
1949-1953 |
San Bernardino |
Los Angeles |
|
|
47 |
1940-1968 |
Kansas City |
Tulsa |
Oil Flyer |
|
48 |
1948-1968 |
Tulsa |
Kansas City |
Oil Flyer |
|
50 |
1940-1948 |
Tulsa |
Kansas City |
Oil Flyer |
|
51 & 54 |
1942-1955 |
San Bernardino |
Los Angeles |
|
|
53 |
1942-1948 |
San Bernardino |
Los Angeles |
|
|
55 |
1948-1949 |
San Bernardino |
Los Angeles |
|
|
60 – 62 - 63 |
1938-1965 |
Oakland |
Bakersfield |
Golden Gate |
|
61 |
1938-1958 |
Bakersfleid |
Oakland |
Golden Gate |
|
65 & 66 |
1931-1948 |
Fort Worth |
Dallas |
|
|
67 & 68 |
1938-1956 |
Dallas |
Paris |
|
|
70 |
* -1964 |
Los Angeles |
San Diego |
San Diegan |
|
71 – 72 – 79 |
* -1965 |
Los Angeles |
San Diego |
San Diegan |
|
2nd 71 & 2nd 72 |
1957 |
Los Angeles |
San Diego |
San Diegan |
|
73 – 75 – 77 |
*- |
San Diego |
Los Angeles |
San Diegan |
|
74 – 76 – 78 |
* - |
Los Angeles |
San Diego |
San Diegan |
|
80 |
1952-1965 |
Los Angeles |
San Diego |
RDC/San Diegan |
|
81 |
1952-1964 |
San Diego |
Los Angeles |
RDC/San Diegan |
|
82 & 83 |
1952-1956 |
Los Angeles |
San Diego |
RDC |
|
75 & 76 |
1925-1948 |
Temple |
Clovis |
California Special / Texan |
|
75(66) & 76(65) |
1948-1968 |
Houston |
Clovis |
California Special / Texan |
|
77 & 78 |
1945-1965 |
Fort Worth |
San Angelo |
Angelo |
|
77 & 78 |
1965-1968 |
Fort Worth |
Brownwood |
|
|
93 |
1928-1965 |
Amarillo |
Lubbock |
West Texas Express |
|
94 |
1928-1955 |
Lubbock |
Amarillo |
Eastern Express |
|
96 |
1955-1965 |
Lubbock |
Amarillo |
Eastern Express |
|
94 & 95 |
1928-1949 |
Sweetwater |
Lubbock |
South Plains / Central Texas Express |
|
105 & 106 |
1949-1954 |
Newton |
Belen |
Scout |
|
111 & 112 |
1948-1960 |
Oklahoma City |
Dallas |
Texas Express / Chicago Express |
|
113 & 114 |
1953-1954 |
Belen |
Alb. |
Scout |
|
115 & 116 |
1955-1968 |
Gainesville |
Dallas |
Texas Chief |
|
117(170) & 118(181) |
1938-1950 |
Phoenix |
Cadiz |
|
|
117 & 118 |
1950-1955 |
Wickenburg |
Cadiz |
|
|
123 & 124 |
1950-1954 |
Kansas City |
Los Angeles |
Grand Canyon |
|
123 & 124 |
1954-1963 |
Chicago |
Los Angeles |
Grand Canyon |
|
127 & 128 |
1940-1949 |
Kansas City |
La Junta |
|
|
127 & 128 |
1949-1954 |
Newton |
Dodge City |
|
|
191(190) & 200(201) |
1956-1959 |
La Junta |
Denver |
|
|
191 & 200 |
1959-1967 |
La Junta |
Pueblo |
|
|
191(190) & 200(201) |
1967-1971 |
La Junta |
Denver |
|
|
211 & 212 |
1939-1971 |
Kansas City |
Tulsa |
Tulsan |
|
223(102) & 224(101) |
1954-1955 |
Kansas City |
Denver |
|
|
223(102) & 224(101) |
1955 |
Newton |
Denver |
|
|
223(102) & 224(101) |
1955-1956 |
La Junta |
Denver |
|
|
311 & 312 |
1955-1964 |
Newton |
Dodge City |
|
|
311 & 312 |
1964-1965 |
Newton |
Kinsley |
* First San Diegans, introduced in1938, were Nos. 71, 74, 75, 76. Second set, in 1941 wee numbered 70, 73, 78, 79. By 1946, San Diegan trains were Nos. 71, 72, 73, 74, 76, 77, 78, 79 and conventional heavyweight trains were Nos. 70 and 75.