The Los Angeles Limited

This booklet is the same size as the ones shown in the last two days. In the mid-1930s, Union Pacific offered two types of premiere trains: daily heavyweights such as the Los Angeles Limited and Portland Rose and (usually) less-than-daily streamliners such as the City of Los Angeles and City of Portland. These booklets helped to distinguish the two different kinds of services.

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This booklet described the amenities available on board the train, listed prices for barber and valet services (some of which weren’t available on the City trains), diagrammed some of the train’s cars, and briefly mentioned other trains on the same route. The booklet is dated 1937.

Floor plans in the back show the club-observation car and two different kinds of sleeping cars. The observation car diagram doesn’t match any of the diagrams in the 1929 Book of Trains, but that may be because UP had introduced a new car in the intervening eight years.


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