The City of Portland was initially the only Union Pacific domeliner to have all three kinds of UP domes, including a dome-coach, dome-diner, and dome-observation cars. This gave passengers 66 dome seats for viewing scenery, although at least during dinner … Continue reading
The Union Pacific competed with the Santa Fe between Chicago and Los Angeles and with the Northern Pacific between Chicago and Portland, so when those two railroads added domes to their streamliners, the UP reluctantly followed. Domes were expensive–the UP … Continue reading
After the Blue Bird, the next domeliner to hit the timetables didn’t even have a name. This was the Union Pacific’s Portland-Seattle pool trains, numbers 457 and 458 (the other trains in the pool being owned by Great Northern and … Continue reading
The Los Angeles train terminal, the last major train station built in the United States, is featured on the cover of this heavily edited lunch menu. The menu itself looks like it was being modified for future editions: one of … Continue reading
This streamlined City of Portland menu features the Columbia Gorge from Crown Point, a beautiful spot on the old Columbia River Highway. The “new” highway 30, a two-lane forerunner of today’s Interstate 84, is visible along the river below, but … Continue reading
Another City of Portland menu from 1954 shows Mt. Hood with some fall colors in the foreground. The inside breakfast menu is identical to yesterday’s. Without this the tablet cannot bring any desired results of erection. soft viagra tablets This … Continue reading
Here’s a menu used on the streamlined City of Portland that featured the train’s namesake city on the cover. The city in this pre-1954 view looks much different from today, when there are more and taller skyscrapers and bridges across … Continue reading
The Union Pacific managed to scrounge up enough streamlined cars to put the City of Portland on a daily basis on February 15, 1947. The City of Los Angeles went daily on May 14, and, as previously noted, the City … Continue reading
On October 30, 1955, the Union Pacific abruptly shifted its passenger trains from the Chicago & North Western to the Milwaukee Road for the portion of the trip between Omaha and Chicago. According to Rank & Kratville’s heavy tome on … Continue reading
The City of San Francisco was in national headlines twice, once just before the war and once a few years after. Both events took place on Southern Pacific tracks. In the first instance, the train was in a spectacular wreck … Continue reading
