Intrigued by the Union Pacific’s Transcon, which I had never heard of before acquiring yesterday’s menu, I hoped that this 1946 timetable would provide more information. The timetable I mentioned yesterday was a condensed version, so I thought the full version would tell me a little more. It did, but very little.
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Perhaps the most important thing about this timetable is a negative: here the Union Pacific was inaugurating a new train providing a new coast-to-coast sleeping car service, so you’d think it would deserve a full-page ad in the timetable. Instead, it is hardly mentioned. Except for a back cover ad for reserved seat coaches that lists the Transcon with five other trains, the new train is simply one of many included in the schedules and equipment lists. Continue reading