Southern Pacific "Apache" passenger train stopped near Temporal, NM in 1928. Photo by Robert Platt.
SP locomotive 4387 is a former EP&SW 4-8-2 Mountain.
(AGSL Digital Photograph Collection for North America and Central America at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Libraries, via https://www.flickr.com/photos/ssave/48520905012/in/dateposted/)
APACHE
The Apache was a passenger train jointly operated by the Rock Island and the Southern Pacific from 1926 through 1938. It traveled from Chicago to Los Angeles on the same route as the Golden State Limited. While the Golden State was an express train between Los Angeles and Chicago via El Paso, Texas, The Apache made many more local stops. It was eventually replaced in 1946 by The Imperial. The train also competed with the Union Pacific/Chicago and North Western train, the Challenger and the Santa Fe's Scout, a train for budget-minded travelers between Chicago and Los Angeles.
Timetable of The Apache.
(Rock Island and Southern Pacific Railroads, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons)
Apache logo found on stationary, etc. (Rock island and Southern Pacific Railroads, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons)
The Apache route.
(Rock Island and Southern Pacific Railroads, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons)
Interior of an Apache Coach car. (Rock Island and Southern Pacific Railroads, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons)
Apache Dining car interior. (Rock Island and Southern Pacific Railroads, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons)
Sleeping car in day mode. (Rock Island and Southern Pacific Railroads, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons)
