The Portland Limited featured a lady's lounge, men's club, sightseeing salon, library, barbershop, and bath with shower which remained intact through the entire route.

[3] The 1930s service continued these features, adding a fully equipped soda fountain, a radio, and a glass-enclosed sun parlor.

In 1937, the year that Union Pacific introduced the Chicago–Los Angeles discount tourist-class train, The Challenger, Portland Rose split sections at Omaha, one through section to Chicago over the CNW, the other through to St. Louis over the Wabash.

[4] In 1942, Cheyenne, Wyoming, then became the east terminus of the Pacific Rose,[5] (temporarily designated as trains 11/12) with a through section carried between there and Chicago by the Los Angeles Limited (trains #1/2), and another section via Denver and through Kansas to Kansas City and St. Louis carried by the City of St.

[3][7] But by 1964, the Portland Rose terminated in Kansas City[8] and in late 1969, service was curtailed to Denver.