old streamliner

[wjstix]

[CSSHEGEWISCH]

That would probably be the "City of San Francisco".  It was a joint C&NW/UP/SP train between Chicago and Oakland.

[binney]

In the late 40's or so I would see a yellow streamlined train passing in and out of Sacramento, CA. It was, what I now assume to be the main UP/BNSF/AMTRAK (SP) track going East out of Sac. The locomotive, to the child I was then, seemed to be very modern, it and the entire train were painted a bright yellow. If it helps, I was viewing from the back yard of a house in North Sacramento, the view was to the South and East. That seems to point to the current tack I noted above, based on the Railroad Atlas of North America. Can anyone give me some info on what this train was.