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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
Category Archives: Union Pacific
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
This menu is undated but must be in one of the last two or three years of UP passenger service as it is fairly crude. The front cover is generic, page 2 simply has the train name in Coronet type … Continue reading
Here are two more Union Pacific-style menus that were actually used on the Southern Pacific. Like other menus with photos of the San Francisco Bay Area, these two were usually used on the City of San Francisco or San Francisco … Continue reading
At least three Union Pacific menus showed San Francisco’s Nob Hill. I’ve previously presented two of them, including one dated 1957 (though I’ve seen this photo on a 1950 menu) and one dated 1963 (whose photo I’ve seen on a … Continue reading
The map in the today’s brochure is an updated version of the map in the 1935 Boulder Dam brochure presented here a few days ago. The map shows a much larger Las Vegas, of course, as by 1963 the city’s … Continue reading
This menu has the same cover photo as yesterday’s. After not noticing this menu cover photo for a decade, I found two of them for sale on eBay at the same time and bought both of them. Does that mean … Continue reading
Here’s the first new Union Pacific wraparound color photo menu I’ve identified since this one, which I posted in August 2020 but found in July. At that time, that was the first new one I had seen since in more … Continue reading
I don’t normally try to indicate the values or rarity of items presented here, but this particular menu must be rare because it was only issued to publicize a movie, the Duchess of Idaho, which was released by MGM in … Continue reading
The map in this brochure shows the location of roughly 750 forts, camps, fields, bases, and stations in the then-48 states. The other side of the brochure lists all of those installations by name along with the nearest train station. … Continue reading