The Overland Limited

168 Pages·1963·33.208 MB·English

by  Lucius Morris Beebe

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Following the immense success of his
20TH CENTURY (New York-Chicago) Lu-
cius Beebe continues triumphantly across the
continent with this new book THE OVER-
LAND LIMITED about another candy train
(Cliicago-San Francisco)
Its stoiy, told in his inimitable way, is
freighted with anecdotes about the great and
famous who boarded it. Among them were
Dame Nellie Melba,Gertrude Atherton,Scott
Newhall, Dorothy Liebes, Fritz Kreisler,
Caruso, Jake Erlich and great galaxies of
movie stars.
For this was the train which, more than
any other, represented "The West" with all
the implications of Buffalo Bill, Wells Fargo
and the Overland Trail. It was part of the
mighty pageant of continental expansion.
Yes, it's an adventurous story, as the lav-
ish pictorial content attests.
Yes, it's a glamorous story because this
train flourished during a vigorous era.
Here you will find a great record—a grand
and glorious account of crossing two-thirds
of the continent in style, in comfort and in
record time.
You know Beebe-1
This is one of his great books.
"The Overlandat Sherman Hill, 1940"
jacketphotograph,by RichardKindig

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Acknowledgments
The pictorial and factual material required for the assembling of this
monograph derived from a wide variety of sources, some of them amateur
collectors and experts in the field of railroad transport of great generosity,
others state and official repositories of such matters and the carriers whose
fortunes were bound upwith those of The Overland Limited and still others
commercial dealers in stock photographs and the iconographic record of
the American past. They include Arthur D. Dubin, Alfred W. Johnson, Fred
Jukes, Howard Fogg, Stan Repp, Richard Kindig, Richard Steinheimer, Dr.
Philip Hastings, William Kratville, Everett De Golyer, Douglas C. Womom,
Jim Ady, D. L. Joslyn, L. Jackson Welsh, Grahame Hardy, Mrs. Victor
Maxwell, The American Geographical Society, The Colorado College Li-
brary, Maynard Parker, The Monterey Herald, S. S. Pierce & Co., of Boston,
E. C. Schafer of The Union Pacific Railroad, Frank Koval of The Chicago
& North Western Railway, Robert Hancocks of the Southern Pacific Rail-
road, The Milwaukee Railroad, Mary Rhymer of the Chicago Historical
Society, Lola Homsher of the Wyoming State Historical Department, Nora
Wilson of Pullman Standard, Brown Brothers and Ewing Galloway. To
all of these the author is indebted for much kindness and great courtesy
of efiFort, research and patience. And finally he is obligated to Gerald M.
Best, a repository Trismegistus of the fact and folklore of American rail
transport, for reading the manuscript copy and diverting the author from
numerous ways of error and directing his footsteps in the highway of
veracity.
Title Page Painting by Stan Repp
Endpapers by E. S. Hammack
THE OVERLAND LIMITED
Copyright © 1963 by Howell-North Books, a corporation, all
rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced in any
manner without permission in writing, except in the case of
critical reviews.
Printedand bound inthe United States ofAmerica.
Library of Congress Catalogue Card No. 63-22352
Published by Howell-North Books
1050 Parker Street, Berkeley 10, California
page 4
We
sing the wondrous story no nation sang before!
A
continental chorus that echoes either shore.
We sing it on the summit; we sing it on the plain!
We've climbed the Grand Sierras
With The Lightning! The Lightning! The Lightning Palace Train!
Henry Clay Work
page 5
Contents
Introduction n
The Golden Gate Special 13
The Overland Limited 26
Index
156
Richard H. Kindig Photo.