As usual in these Union Pacific timetables contributed by Tim Zukas, the cover shown below is the back cover, while this timetable’s front cover is divided into two half-page ads. One promotes a soda fountain in the “limousine-lounge car” of the Columbine, which was no doubt especially popular in the days before air conditioning.
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The limousine-lounge car was supposed to be a step up from the club-lounge on the 1927 Columbine. In place of a rear platform, it had eight seats in an observation room. It also had 15 seats in a lounge that was next to a buffet that included the soda fountain as well as stronger beverages. A smoking room (for men) had seven seats, and a women’s lounge had four, plus the car had a compartment and a drawing room.
The other half-page ad announces that Bryce Canyon had just been declared a national park, which meant that passengers could take a Union Pacific bus tour from Cedar City and visit “three national parks in one five-day tour!” “No other motor-bus tour in America can offer so many National Parks–nor such a variety of colorful, magnificent scenery,” noted the ad. Like the other Union Pacific timetables posted here recently, this one was contributed by Streamliner Memories reader Tim Zukas.