The Pendleton Round-Up is one of the largest rodeos held in the western United States. It first took place in 1910, just a few years after Sam Jackson, owner of the Pendleton East Oregonian newspaper, had taken over the floundering … Continue reading
Category Archives: Union Pacific
Union Pacific was the second railroad to reach the Pacific Northwest, and it did it in the same way as the Northern Pacific: by building to the Oregon Railway & Navigation Company line and running its trains to Portland over … Continue reading
Competition between Chicago and San Francisco was much less intense than in the Los Angeles corridor mainly because the Overland Route was by far the shortest route. In 1911, when Western Pacific began serving this corridor, the Overland Route was … Continue reading
Santa Fe’s introduction of the Chief in 1926 led Union Pacific and Rock Island-Southern Pacific to match the Santa Fe train’s 63-hour schedules as well as its extra fares of as much as $10. They also met Santa Fe’s reduction … Continue reading
In late 1905, a new competitor entered the market for premium Chicago-Los Angeles trains: the Los Angeles Limited. This route was made possible when the San Pedro, Los Angeles and Salt Lake Railroad completed its line between Salt Lake City … Continue reading
One of the theses that I am exploring since November 20th is that competition stimulated railroads to develop and improve limited trains. The Golden Gate Special, which was probably the first named train to reach the West Coast, is an … Continue reading
This timetable is somewhat similar to the one from 1872, with a map on one side and a large timetable on the other surrounded by woodcuts of scenes along the route of the first transcontinental railway along with some text. … Continue reading
As a part of his map collection, David Rumsey included more than 50 brochures that had a railroad map on one side and timetables on the other. Most of these timetables were printed by Rand McNally and followed a standard … Continue reading
This calendar appears to have been printed before December 7, 1941 — at least, it has a page for that month — yet the cover suggests the Union Pacific was already prepared for war as part of the “strategic middle … Continue reading
Yes, Virginia, there was a Union Pacific train called the City of Kansas City. It replaced the City of St. Louis in June, 1968, when the Wabash decided not to operate that train on the St. Louis-Kansas City portion of … Continue reading