Train Name
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Railroad
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Train Endpoints
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Operated
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Sacramento Daylight
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Southern Pacific
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Lathrop, CA–Sacramento, CA
|
1946–1971
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Safety Express
|
Chessie System
|
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1980–1981
|
Saint
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Santa Fe
|
Los Angeles, CA–San Francisco, CA
|
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St. Clair
|
Amtrak
|
Chicago, IL–Detroit, MI
|
1971–1980
|
St. Lawrence Express
|
New York Central
|
New York City–Utica, New York
|
|
St. Louis Limited
|
Wabash
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Detroit, MI–St. Louis, MO
|
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St. Louis Special[1]: 235
|
Southern
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Asheville, NC–St. Louis, MO
|
1912–1917
|
St. Louis Special
|
Wabash (Wabash renamed train Wabash Cannon Ball 4/50)
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Detroit, MI–St. Louis, MO
|
1949–1964
|
St. Louis Mule
|
Amtrak
|
St. Louis, MO–Kansas City, MO
|
1980–2009
|
Salt City Express
|
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New York, NY–Syracuse, NY
|
|
Salt Lake Special
|
Union Pacific
|
Butte, MT–Salt Lake City, UT
|
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Sam Houston Zephyr
|
Burlington-Rock Island Railroad
|
Fort Worth, TX–Houston, TX
|
1936–1966
|
San Diegan
|
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Los Angeles, CA–San Diego, CA
|
1938–2000
|
San Francisco Challenger
|
Southern Pacific and Union Pacific
|
Chicago, IL–San Francisco, CA
|
1936–1947
|
San Francisco Chief
|
Santa Fe
|
Chicago, IL–San Francisco, CA
|
1954–1971
|
San Francisco Overland
|
Southern Pacific
|
San Francisco–Ogden, Utah
|
1947–1963
|
San Francisco Zephyr
|
Amtrak
|
Chicago, IL–Oakland, CA
|
1972–1983
|
San Joaquin Daylight
|
Southern Pacific
|
Los Angeles, CA–San Francisco, CA
|
1941–1971
|
San Juan Express
|
Denver & Rio Grande Western
|
Alamosa, CO–Durango, CO
|
1937–1951
|
San Joaquin
|
Amtrak
|
Bakersfield, CA–Oakland, CA/Sacramento, CA
|
1974–present
|
Sangamon
|
Illinois Terminal Railroad
|
St. Louis, MO – Peoria, IL
|
1950–1956
|
Santa Fe De Luxe
|
Santa Fe
|
Chicago, IL–Los Angeles, CA
|
1911–
|
Scenic Limited[2]
|
Denver & Rio Grande Western, Missouri Pacific Railroad, and Western Pacific
|
St. Louis, MO–San Francisco, CA
|
1915–1946
|
Scout
|
Santa Fe
|
Chicago, IL–Los Angeles, CA
|
|
Scranton Flyer
|
Central Railroad of New Jersey
|
Philadelphia, PA–Scranton, PA
|
|
Seminole
|
Illinois Central Railroad, Central of Georgia Railroad, and Atlantic Coast Line
|
Chicago, IL–Jacksonville, FL
|
1909-1969
|
Senator
|
Pennsylvania Railroad and New Haven Railroad; later Amtrak
|
Washington, DC–Boston, MA
|
|
Senator
|
Southern Pacific
|
Oakland, CA–Sacramento, CA
|
|
Shasta Daylight
|
Southern Pacific
|
Oakland, CA–Portland, OR
|
1949–1967
|
Shavano
|
Denver & Rio Grande Western
|
Salida, CO–Gunnison, CO
|
1937–1940
|
Shawnee
|
Illinois Central/Amtrak
|
Chicago, IL–Carbondale, IL
|
1969–1986
|
Shelter Island Express
|
Long Island Rail Road
|
Long Island City–Greenport, NY
|
1901–1903, 1923–1942
|
Shenandoah
|
Baltimore & Ohio Railroad
|
Washington, DC–Cincinnati, OH
|
|
Shenandoah
|
Amtrak
|
Washington, DC–Cincinnati, OH
|
1976–1981
|
Shinnecock Bay Express
|
Long Island Rail Road
|
Long Island City–Montauk, NY
|
1926–1950
|
Shoppers Special
|
Pere Marquette
|
Chicago, IL–Grand Rapids, MI
|
|
Shoreland 400
|
Chicago and North Western Railway
|
Chicago, IL–Green Bay, WI
|
|
Shreveporter
|
Louisiana and Arkansas
|
Hope, AR–Shreveport, LA
|
1928–1961
|
Silver Comet
|
Seaboard Air Line
|
New York, NY–Birmingham, AL
|
1947–1969
|
Silver Meteor
|
Seaboard Air Line, later Amtrak
|
New York, NY–Tampa, FL/Miami, FL
|
1939–present
|
Silver Star
|
Seaboard Air Line, later Amtrak
|
New York, NY–Tampa, FL/Miami, FL
|
1947–present
|
Silver Streak Zephyr
|
Chicago, Burlington & Quincy
|
Kansas City, MO–Lincoln, NE
|
1940–
|
Silverliner Service
|
|
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania–Harrisburg, Pennsylvania
|
|
Sioux
|
Milwaukee Road
|
Chicago, IL–Rapid City, SD
|
1929–1971
|
Skyland Special
|
Southern
|
Ashville, NC/Charlotte, NC–Jacksonville, FL
|
1950s
|
Skunk
|
California Western Railroad
|
Fort Bragg, California–Willits, California
|
1926–
|
Somerset Hills Express
|
Lackawanna, Erie Lackawanna, Conrail, New Jersey Transit
|
Hoboken, New Jersey–Gladstone, New Jersey
|
1940s–2001
|
Soo-Dominion
|
Soo Line and Canadian Pacific
|
Minneapolis–Saint Paul, MN–Vancouver, BC
|
|
South Shore Express
|
New York Central
|
Chicago, IL–Toledo, OH
|
|
South Wind
|
Florida East Coast, Pennsylvania, Louisville and Nashville and Atlantic Coast Line
|
Chicago, IL–Miami, FL
|
1940–1971
|
Southern Belle
|
Kansas City Southern
|
Kansas City, MO–New Orleans, LA
|
1940–1969
|
Southern Crescent
|
|
Boston, MA–New Orleans, LA
|
1970–1979
|
Southern Michigan Express
|
Detroit and Mackinac Railway
|
Detroit, MI–Cheboygan, MI
|
|
Southern Scenic
|
Missouri Pacific
|
Memphis, TN–Kansas City, MO
|
1931–1952
|
Southerner
|
Pennsylvania and Southern
|
New York, NY–New Orleans, LA
|
1941–1970
|
Southerner
|
Missouri Pacific and Texas and Pacific
|
Kansas City, MO–New Orleans, LA
|
1925–
|
Southland
|
Pennsylvania, Louisville & Nashville, Central of Georgia, Atlantic Coast Line
|
Chicago, IL–St. Petersburg, FL
|
|
Southwest Chief
|
Amtrak
|
Chicago, IL–Los Angeles, CA
|
1984–present
|
Southwest Limited
|
Amtrak
|
Chicago, IL–Los Angeles, CA
|
1974–1984
|
Southwest Limited
|
Milwaukee Road
|
Chicago, IL/Milwaukee, WI–Kansas City, MO
|
1903–1958
|
Southwestern Limited
|
New York Central
|
New York, NY–St Louis, MO
|
|
Speed Merchant
|
Boston and Maine
|
Boston, MA–Portland, ME
|
|
Spirit of California
|
Amtrak
|
Sacramento, CA–Los Angeles, CA
|
1981–1983
|
Spirit of St. Louis
|
Pennsylvania, later Amtrak
|
New York, NY–St Louis, MO
|
1927–1971
|
Sportsman
|
Chesapeake and Ohio Railway
|
Detroit, MI–Grand Rapids, MI
|
|
Star
|
Lehigh Valley Railroad
|
New York, NY–Buffalo, NY
|
|
Star
|
Missouri Pacific
|
Fort Worth, TX–Galveston, TX
|
1926–1936
|
Starlight
|
Southern Pacific
|
Los Angeles, CA–San Francisco, CA
|
|
State House
|
Amtrak
|
Chicago, IL–St. Louis, MO
|
|
State of Maine Express
|
New York, New Haven & Hartford and Boston & Maine
|
New York, NY–Portland, ME
|
1913–1960
|
Statesman
|
|
Boston, MA–Washington, DC
|
|
Steeler
|
Pennsylvania
|
Pittsburgh, PA–Cleveland, OH
|
1948–1950
|
Streamliner
|
Spokane, Portland and Seattle Railway
|
Spokane, WA–Portland, OR
|
–1970
|
Sundown
|
|
New York, NY–Boston, MA
|
|
Sunflower
|
Missouri Pacific
|
St. Louis, MO–Wichita, KS
|
1924–
|
Sun Tan Special
|
Southern Pacific
|
San Francisco, CA–Santa Cruz, CA
|
|
Sunbeam
|
Texas and New Orleans
|
Houston, TX–Dallas, TX
|
1925–1955
|
Sunland
|
Richmond, Fredericksburg & Potomac and Seaboard Air Line
|
Washington, DC–Miami and Tampa, FL
|
1950s
|
Sunnyland
|
Frisco and Southern
|
Memphis, TN–Pensacola, FL/Atlanta, GA
|
1953
|
Sunrise Special
|
Pennsylvania Railroad and Long Island Rail Road
|
Pittsburgh, PA–Montauk, NY
|
1922–1942
|
Sunset Limited
|
Southern Pacific, later Amtrak
|
Los Angeles, CA–New Orleans, LA
|
1894–present
|
Sunshine Special
|
Missouri Pacific and Texas and Pacific
|
St. Louis–San Antonio
|
1915–1948
|
Super Chief
|
Santa Fe, later Amtrak
|
Chicago, IL–Los Angeles, CA
|
1936–1974
|
Suwannee River Special
|
Southern and Seaboard Air Line
|
St. Petersburg, FL–Cincinnati, OH
|
1920s
|