This birdseye map show the “Pacific Slope,” which mostly means California with bits of Nevada off in the distance. Having been made in the early 1890s, almost all of the rail lines shown on the map are Southern Pacific, and … Continue reading
Here’s another “birdseye view” from the “World Pictorial Line,” a.k.a. the Union Pacific. The map in the brochure shows UP routes from Omaha to Cheyenne, Kansas City to Denver, and many of the routes in-between. Unlike yesterday’s brochure, nearly all … Continue reading
“By the recent acquisition of the Denver, Texas & Fort Worth Railway, the Union Pacific System controls an imperial domain extending from the mountain heights of Colorado to the Gulf [of] Mexico,” proclaims this brochure, which includes a colorful “birdseye” … Continue reading
In about 1961, Union Pacific began using the phrase “automated rail way” in its advertising and on its box cars. The letters on the boxcars were often in eight different colors, though this notepad only uses two. Since “rail” was … Continue reading
In late 1960, Union Pacific changed the cover of its timetables from one that had a small map of its system to the fully detailed map of its lines as shown below. This map was used in place of the … Continue reading
As noted yesterday, Union Pacific combined the Challenger with the City of Los Angeles in the off-peak seasons and ran them as separate trains in the peak seasons (including summers and the Christmas holidays). Although UP originally assigned dome-coaches and … Continue reading
“Beginning June 1st,” says the back cover of this timetable (which was contributed by a Streamliner Memories reader), “the Challenger will again operate as an ALL COACH Streamliner on its regular convenient summer schedule.” This refers to the fact that … Continue reading
This timetable (which was contributed by a Streamliner Memories reader) is the first I have seen to include the City of Las Vegas. That train began operating in December, 1956, using the General Motors Aerotrain. UP continued to use that … Continue reading
We’ve seen a booklet with the same cover as this one from 1950. This one is dated 1955. For the first 33 pages, there are almost no differences between the two. Even the graphic of a steam-powered passenger train on … Continue reading
We’ve seen booklets with this cover before from 1948 and 1962. This one is from the middle of that range, 1955. The text and graphics in all three are similar, but many of the photos were changed over the years. … Continue reading
