This booklet is the same size and appears to be in the same series of Union Pacific name-train booklets shown here before, including booklets for the streamliners, premiere trains such as the Los Angeles Limited, and cars such as the Frontier Shack (more of which will appear here in a few days). I’ve speculated that UP began issuing these books when it introduced the streamliners, but this one is clearly from well before that. It doesn’t mention the Portland Rose, which began operating in late 1930, but it twice mentions schedule changes made in June, 1929, so I date it to late 1929.
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The booklet devotes two pages each to a dozen trains, including the Los Angeles Limited, Overland Limited, Portland Limited, Columbine, and secondary trains including the Gold Coast, Pacific Limited, and Continental Limited. The last two trains are featured twice because they each had sections going to Los Angeles and either Portland or San Francisco. Continue reading