In 1957, Union Pacific briefly tested the General Motors Aerotrain between Los Angeles and Las Vegas, calling it the City of Las Vegas. According to this brochure, the train operated from December (Wikipedia says on the 18th), 1956 to September 14, 1957, which differs from the dates I used in my post about the Aerotrain. I am sure the brochure is correct.
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Along with most other railroads, UP was disappointed in the GM train, but wanted to keep a City of Las Vegas going. So, on September 15, it replaced the Aerotrain with conventional streamlined equipment. Dated January, 1958, this brochure describes that train.
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One unconventional thing about the train was that UP offered all of the passengers full buffet-style meals as a part of their ticket price. I’m pretty sure this was the only buffet-style service ever offered on a pre-Amtrak train. I don’t think Amtrak ever offered one either, but some tourist railroads or other trains may have done so.
The all-coach train left Los Angeles at 8:00 am, providing a continental breakfast and cold luncheon featuring fried chicken before arriving in Las Vegas at 2:45 pm. After turning the train, it left Las Vegas at 3:45 pm, serving a hot dinner and arriving in Los Angeles at 10:30 pm. Like the City of Los Angeles, the train made four stops en route: East Los Angeles, Pomona, Riverside, and San Bernardino, but the Vegas train only stopped to pick up passengers to Vegas and drop them off on the return.
In addition to five 48-seat coaches and the buffet car, the train featured a lounge car that closely resembles the Pub car on the 1954 City of Denver. Wikipedia says that UP made the car out of a 1937 coach. While UP had offered highly imaginative lounge cars on its early streamlined trains–the Copper King, the Hollywood, Little Nugget, and the Frontier Shack–by 1958 that imagination had evidently faded.
The picture above depicting the buffet cannot possibly be from inside the Chuck Wagon car – the interior width of a standard streamlined passenger car would not permit such generous counter space, or as much room for the wait staff.
And I never understood the scheduling, at least on the return trip. Hotel checkout time is (was?) typically 11 AM or noon, so one would think a 1 PM departure for L.A. would make more sense. OK, I get it that the schedule allowed one set of equipment to protect the schedule, but UP was a pro-passenger railroad that I presume had a good sized equipment pool, or at the very least could lease equipment from, let’s say, SP.