Today is the 150th anniversary of the completion of the first transcontinental railroad. I am not particularly fond of an event that I think of as the biggest government boondoggle in nineteenth-century America. If you care to find out why, you can read my political opinions on my other blog.
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Nevertheless, to commemorate the date, I am interrupting my series of Canadian Pacific menus to present this 1960 history of the Union Pacific. It is an update of the 1951 history booklet previously shown here. Most of the booklet is about the construction of the railroad up to 1869; the briberies, swindles, and bankruptcies that followed are barely mentioned.
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In 1951, UP said it had 23 daily streamliners, counting five each of the City of Los Angeles, City of Portland, and City of San Francisco, plus two of the City of Denver and six of the City of St. Louis. In 1960, it counted all of these trains plus five of the Portland Rose and one City of Las Vegas, somehow adding these up to 27 trains (I count 29). It also mentions the five Challengers as summer-only trains.
Pages 27 and 28 of the 1951 booklet presented Union Pacific’s long-range plan after World War II. Pages 28 and 29 of the 1960 booklet show how that plan has been implemented. An extra page describing UP’s freight operations in the 1960 booklet replaces several paragraphs about Sun Valley, probably reflecting UP’s declining interest in operating a ski area.