The City of San Francisco was a streamlined passenger train operated jointly by the Chicago and North Western Railway, the Southern Pacific Railroad, and the Union Pacific Railroad. The service ran between Chicago, Illinois and Oakland, California. After 1955 the Milwaukee Road assumed operation of the train east of Omaha. This train was marketed as a direct competitor to the San Francisco Chief, a streamlined passenger train operated by the Atch...
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The City of San Francisco was a streamlined passenger train operated jointly by the Chicago and North Western Railway, the Southern Pacific Railroad, and the Union Pacific Railroad. The service ran between Chicago, Illinois and Oakland, California. After 1955 the Milwaukee Road assumed operation of the train east of Omaha. This train was marketed as a direct competitor to the San Francisco Chief, a streamlined passenger train operated by the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway. As with the City of Los Angeles, many of the train's cars bore the names of locales in and around its namkesake city, including Mission Dolores, the nickname given to San Francisco's Mission San Francisco de Asís.
On August 12, 1939 the train derailed while crossing a bridge near Carlin, Nevada, killing 24 and injuring 121. The wreck appeared to have been caused by sabotage but remains unsolved.
The City of San Francisco is perhaps best remembered for the January, 1952 disaster when a blizzard in the Sierra...
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