The Beaver was a passenger train of the Southern Pacific on its route between Oakland, California, and Portland, Oregon. The Southern Pacific started the train on July 8, 1940, as an extra summer train offering economy tourist sleepers and coaches over the same route as the Cascade. The popularity of the train justified all-year service by September, 1940, and the train was given numbers 11 and 12 on May 11, 1941. Wartime service reductions caused the southbound Beaver to be consolidated with the Cascade as train number 23 on September 8, 1941. The northbound Beaver was similarly consolidated with the Cascade on May 3, 1943, as train number 24. The trains were separated again on August 4, 1946, with the Cascade numbered 11 and 12 and the Beaver numbered 13 and 14 until replaced by the Shasta Daylight on July 10, 1949.[1]

Beaver
Overview
Service typeInter-city rail
StatusDiscontinued
LocaleNorthern California and Oregon
First serviceJune 8, 1940 (1940-06-08)
Last serviceJuly 10, 1949
SuccessorShasta Daylight
Former operator(s)Southern Pacific
Route
TerminiOakland, California
Portland, Oregon
Stops15
Technical
Track gauge4 ft 8+12 in (1,435 mm) standard gauge
Route map
Portland
Salem
Albany
Eugene
Chemult
Klamath Falls
Dunsmuir
Redding
Gerber
Davis
Suisun–Fairfield
Martinez
Crockett
Richmond
Berkeley
Oakland
Oakland Pier
closed
1958
San Francisco

Consist

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Post-war trains 13 and 14 typically contained the following sequence of cars.[2]

References

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  1. ^ Beebe, Lucius (1963). The Central Pacific and the Southern Pacific Railroads. Berkeley, California: Howell-North Books. p. 619.
  2. ^ Clark, Ken R. "Southern Pacific Passenger Trains Beaver". Espee Modelers Archive. Richard A. Percy. Retrieved 5 October 2024.