Union Pacific June 1929 Timetable

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.


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