City of Los Angeles (train)

City of Los Angeles
UP #932, an EMD E8, leads the City of Los Angeles into Union Station in Los Angeles in March 1971, just prior to discontinuance.
Overview
Service type	Inter-city rail
Status	Discontinued
Locale	Western United States
First service	May 15, 1936
Last service	May 2, 1971
Successor	Desert Wind
Former operator(s)	Chicago and North Western Railway Union Pacific Railroad Milwaukee Road
Route
Termini	Chicago, Illinois Los Angeles, California
Stops	20
Average journey time	40 hours, 45 minutes (Chicago - Los Angeles) 40 hours, 30 minutes (Los Angeles - Chicago)
Service frequency	Daily
Train number(s)	103 (Chicago - Los Angeles) 104 (Los Angeles - Chicago)
Line(s) used	Overland Route
On-board services
Class(es)	Coach Class
Sleeping arrangements	Streamlined Sleeping cars Double Bedrooms Drawing Rooms Compartments Roommates
Catering facilities	Cafe Lounge Car Dome Dining Car
Observation facilities	Dome lounge
Baggage facilities	Limited handling
Technical
Track gauge	4 ft 8+1⁄2 in (1,435 mm)
Operating speed	56.4 mph (Chicago - Los Angeles) 56.8 mph (Los Angeles - Chicago)
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The City of Los Angeles was a streamlined passenger train between Chicago, Illinois, and Los Angeles, California via Omaha, Nebraska, and Ogden, Utah. Between Omaha and Los Angeles it ran on the Union Pacific Railroad; east of Omaha it ran on the Chicago and North Western Railway until October 1955 and on the Milwaukee Road thereafter. The train had number 103 westbound and number 104 eastbound.

This train was the top-of-the-line for UP, which marketed it as a competitor to the Super Chief, a streamlined passenger train on the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway, and the Golden State, a streamlined passenger train jointly operated by the Rock Island and Southern Pacific railroads. Many of the train's cars bore the names of locales in and around its namesake city.