Boulder Dam, “the newest of the won­ders of the West served by Union Pacific’s famous trancontinental [sic] trains,” would not be completed until 1936, but it was complete enough in mid-1935 that Union Pacific could put a photograph of people boating behind the dam on the front cover of this timetable (which was contributed by Tim Zukas). The reservoir wasn’t yet full when the photo was taken.

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While this timetable calls the Portland streamliner the City of Portland, it calls the Salina train the “the Kansas streamliner.” It wouldn’t gain a more definitive name until March 13, 1936, when UP’s president decreed that it should be called the Streamliner City of Salina, and this name was promptly painted on the side in the same typeface as used on the City of Portland.

The first three streamliners — M-10000 (City of Salina), M-10001 (City of Portland), and M-10002 (City of Los Angeles) were delivered lettered using the extended railroad Roman typeface found on most heavyweight cars. But when the City of Salina name was applied to the M-10000, the “Union Pacific” and numbers on each of the cars were repainted in a sans serif, Futura-style typeface. The M-10004 (City of San Francisco) was delivered with this typeface in May, 1936, and it became the standard for all UP streamliners after that time.