In May 1947, Union Pacific added a color cover to its timetables. The first color cover showed an Armour yellow E-2 Diesel-powered streamliner pacing a 4-8-4 steam locomotive pulling a grey passenger train. This cover remained in use at least through March 1953.

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By June 1953, the E-2 was replaced with an E-7 and the steam train was replaced by a yellow streamliner moving in the opposite direction from the first streamliner. A blunt-end observation car had a drumhead showing the Union Pacific logo. This was used at least through January 1955.

In April 1955, the blunt-end observation car was replaced with a blunt-end dome-observation car with a City of Los Angeles logo in neon lights. This logo was used in actual service for approximately one year before Union Pacific decided to use the observation cars in mid-train and junked the drumheads. Despite this, the logo remained on the back of the train on the cover of UP timetables for five more years.

In January 1958, the timetable got another redesign with a U.S. map showing UP routes under the UP logo. The trains were shown at a different angle with a more perspective appearance and the dome-obs still had a City of Los Angeles logo even though the real City of Los Angeles no longer had one. This was used until 1961 when the trains were replaced with a system map that wrapped around to the back cover, thus allowing the railroad to delete the system map that had previously been in the centerfold.

The back cover of today’s timetable advertised “6 great streamliners serving the Union Pacific West.” Those were the City of Denver, City of Los Angeles, City of Portland, City of St. Louis, City of San Francisco, and Challenger.