That’s the beauty about freelancing. You can work anything into your story and no one can really dispute it.
A very high percentage of my rolling stock is Western Pacific with some other western roads included and the odd interchange car from the east. Then I have several locos that are patched for the Last Mountain & Eastern which is the name of my Pike and it is an operational Division of the W.P. (In my mind) Very similar to what the Tidewater Southern and Sacramento Northern were, only the LM&E is a bridge line and not just a local area line.
There are other Company owned locomotives involved as well, as the WP quite ofter had pooled equipment, or leased equipment from BN., NP, D&RGW on their rails. As well as a couple of Leasing Company Units like Furx. I know, I know, but as I said it works for me and that’s my story and I’m sticking to it.
So it works well for me and I am Happy and that’s what counts. Make sure what you do makes you happy as well.
I think your slogan is great. But Golden State and Pacific makes me GASP.
(For air, as the breaker roars over the top of my boogie board.)
Considering the geographic location of the Golden State (so named for the amber waves of - dried-out grass) you might consider Golden State and Eastern, or Golden State and Northern. Golden State and Southern probably wouldn’t work - not much in the way of traffic sources in Baja California.
If you are in the Bay area in 1955-1965 you will be interchanging with the ATSF, WP and SP. The UP didn’t go to the Bay area then. The SSW only went as far as Texarkana and the TNO was east of El Paso. But the SP was the parent and would have shared many of the engines. The DRGW and the WP would have interchanged at Salt Lake City so DRGW engines might have been on the WP.
Golden State Pacific sounds better. For me Golden State means Kansas and Oklahoma, as in the Golden State Route on the Rock Island/SP/UP between KC and El Paso through Tucumcari.