Talk:Las Vegas Limited

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Possible areas of expansion:
 * While researching this on Newspapers.com I noticed articles on resuming the entire route of the City of Los Angeles (Los Angeles–Las Vegas–Ogden). These were from 1974 onwards. This eventually became the Desert Wind in 1979. That's a story for the latter article but some mention here is appropriate.
 * Senator Howard Cannon was active in pushing the Desert Wind and may have been involved in these trains as well.
 * There are sources discussing the equipment for the Celebrity Train and the Las Vegas Limited sufficient for a short Equipment section. I haven't see anything on the Fun Train, but some enterprising railfan has to have written it down. The presence of Hi-Levels on the Celebrity Train is an interesting sidebar.
 * Route: this is unclear. Presumably all the trains used a mixed ATSF/UP routing, taking the ATSF Second District via Pasadena. The Las Vegas Limited stopped in Barstow but the Celebrity Train didn't.
 * Craig Sanders says four iterations of this train: a fun train during winter 71–72 and again in 72–73, the celebrity train, and the Las Vegas Limited. I haven't found anything else to substantiate the 72–73 train.
 * Pictures: I strongly doubt there's a free image of any of these trains, but it's possible. In the alternative a period picture of Las Vegas in the body of the text might be justified.

That's what I can think of for now. Mackensen (talk) 03:58, 10 July 2016 (UTC)