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By Brian Schmidt | August 5, 2021

| Last updated on August 7, 2025


Steam locomotive smoking profusely with passenger cars in tow

Overland Route

A trim Southern Pacific 4-6-2 makes better than 60 mph with Overland Limited east of Elko, Nev., in 1918, when Overland Route rail service was already nearly 50 years old, and the top trains were numbered 1 and 2. Fred Jukes photo

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