direct route between Salt Lake City and the Pacific.
The Santa Fé takes a southwesterly course from Chicago. The boundary between Arizona and California is passed at The Needles on the Colorado River. A branch goes from Barstow to San Bernardino and Los Angeles; another branch connects San Bernardino with Riverside and Orange. The latter station is on the Los Angeles San Diego line, 31 miles south of Los Angeles. The Santa Fe trunk line continues in a northwesterly direction to Bakersfield and Fresno, to Merced and Stockton, and thence to Antioch, Richmond and Ferry Point, or to Berkeley and to Oakland, chief landward port of San Francisco.
The Southern Pacific Railroad approaches California from three directions. The southeasterly portal is at the junction of Mexico, Arizona and California. Through it pass the trains of the Sunset Route which, leaving from New Orleans, traverse Texas and the southerly edge of the American Sahara to arrive at Los Angeles and San Francisco. The latter is reached via Fresno, Merced, Stockton and Oakland, or via the Coast Line (Los Angeles—Ventura—Santa Barbara—San Luis Obispo—Pajaro—Gilroy—San José—San Mateo, and into San Francisco by land).
