This booklet is the same size and appears to be in the same series of Union Pacific name-train booklets shown here before, including booklets for the streamliners, premiere trains such as the Los Angeles Limited, and cars such as the Frontier Shack (more of which will appear here in a few days). I’ve speculated that UP began issuing these books when it introduced the streamliners, but this one is clearly from well before that. It doesn’t mention the Portland Rose, which began operating in late 1930, but it twice mentions schedule changes made in June, 1929, so I date it to late 1929.
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The booklet devotes two pages each to a dozen trains, including the Los Angeles Limited, Overland Limited, Portland Limited, Columbine, and secondary trains including the Gold Coast, Pacific Limited, and Continental Limited. The last two trains are featured twice because they each had sections going to Los Angeles and either Portland or San Francisco.
In addition to summarizing train schedules, the booklet briefly describes the equipment and amenities available on each train. For example, five of the trains have maid/barber/valet service; two of the trains have soda fountains (this was during prohibition); and while all of the trains have observation cars, some have “club-observation cars” and one has a “limousine-lounge observation car” while others have just plain observation cars. It appears that only the Overland Limited had both an observation car and a separate club car that also had baggage space so must have been at the opposite end of the train.
Diagrams in the back show floor plans for the club car and three different kinds of observation cars, but they aren’t always clear about which kind of observation car was used on which train. Some of the cars appear wider in the diagrams than others, indicating they are actually shorter than the usual 80-foot length and are drawn to a larger scale to fit the page.