For the Portland Rose, Union Pacific adopted the rather meaningless slogan, “A triumph in train comfort” (or sometimes “A triumph of train comfort”). The former appears here on a piece of on-board stationery for the train. This stationery includes the names of the operating railroads, Chicago & North Western and Union Pacific, which means that it predates October, 1955, when the Milwaukee Road took over the handling of UP trains from Omaha to Chicago.
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Repeating the “triumph in train comfort” theme, this postcard (downloaded from wikimedia which got it from an ebay dealer) shows the interior of the Portland Rose‘s air-conditioned dining car, complete with roses on the tables, paintings of roses on the walls and clerestory, and images of roses in the carpet. It is clearly a heavyweight diner, yet the postcard must date from after 1936, when UP began air conditioning its trains.