This 1941 calendar completes my collection of UP calendars between 1940 and 1996, the years they came out in this format. This calendar is 12-1/2″x22-3/4″, the same size as most other UP calendars during those years. However, my 1942, 1943, … Continue reading
When completed in 1936, Boulder Dam was the largest concrete structure ever built. This generated feelings of national pride and the Union Pacific happily took advantage of this by encouraging people to stopover in Las Vegas so they could tour … Continue reading
The cover’s reference to “plenty to shoot at” means with a camera. “Wherever you turn from wherever you are a new picture presents itself in the Utah-Arizona national parks,” says the inside of this 1936 brochure. I’d have to agree: … Continue reading
Union Pacific introduced the Challenger, its low-cost train to Los Angeles, in June, 1935. This brochure must have been issued about that time or soon after. Although it is undated, times shown in the brochure for trains arriving in Las … Continue reading
Whoever collected the stationery presented over the last three days also brought home these soap wrappers that advertise Union Pacific’s “Cedar City Gateway” to the southern Utah parks. The first wrapper once contained “Colgate’s Floating Soap,” obviously Colgate’s answer to … Continue reading
Here is the stationery for guests at the Zion National Park Lodge. Unlike the Bryce and Grand Canyon lodge stationery, the picture of the Great White Throne on this letterhead does not match any of the Union Pacific menu cards … Continue reading
This stationery is the same vintage as yesterday’s and, like yesterday’s, features a picture that is also found on a menu card from 1929. Instead of an oval yellow line around the picture, this one features more elaborate red and … Continue reading
This pretty piece of stationery features a picture of the Temple of Osiris, which we know because the same picture was used on a Union Pacific menu card in 1929. The picture is a colorized black-and-white photo and doesn’t really … Continue reading
This booklet lists about 45 dude ranches and 13 lodges, most of which offered guide or pack services, that were located near Union Pacific tracks. Most were in Wyoming, a few in Colorad, Idaho, and Montana, one in Oregon, and … Continue reading
Although issued a year before Amtrak, this is the last Union Pacific passenger timetable I can find. Union Pacific managed to fill 24 pages, but much of it was fluff, with some trains being repeated on five or more pages. … Continue reading
