The Copper King on the City of Portland

This booklet shows that the M-10004, remodeled as the LA-4, served as the City of Portland in 1941. While UP did not remodel the train for 1941, it did add two new cars — an open-section sleeper and a 48-seat coach — plus an additional power car to handle the longer train and the steeper grades on the City of Portland route as the steepest grades in UP’s system were in the Blue Mountains of northeastern Oregon.

Click image to download a 4.7-MB PDF of this 24-page booklet.

Except for the appropriate substitution of “Portland” for “Los Angeles” and mentions of the additional cars, most of this booklet is a word-for-word copy of the 1938 City of Los Angeles booklet that I downloaded from the Smithsonian’s web site. This is a little odd because that booklet is wider than this one, yet all the photographs, page breaks, and even the line breaks are the same. This booklet also includes the two pages about the City of Los Angeles dining car that are missing from the Smithsonian site.


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