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I once downloaded scans of this booklet from the Smithsonian‘s web site, but the scans were missing two pages. I posted a PDF of those scans here anyway, but I’ve now acquired a copy of my own. Of course, the … Continue reading
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In 1938, Union Pacific transferred the M-10004, which had been operating as the City of San Francisco, to City of Los Angeles service, thus increasing service on that route from five to ten times a month. Before putting the train … Continue reading
After designing the Frontier Shack for the City of Denver, Walt Kuhn designed the lounge car for the second City of Los Angeles. Although the car and train were put into service in December, 1937, this booklet is dated November, … Continue reading
This booklet is the same size as the Union Pacific name-train booklets such as the one presented yesterday. Though it is printed on a completely different kind of paper, that is probably meant to recall faded papers from the nineteenth … Continue reading
One of my earlier posts criticized the 1948 North Coast Limited for having a drab and inadequate lounge car. That finally changed in June, 1955 when the NP converted its coach-buffet-lounge cars into the Traveller’s Rest cars, an homage to … Continue reading
After the Super Chief received its domes on January 29, 1951, no further trains became domeliners until 1952, when domes were added to several minor trains: the Missouri Pacific Texas Eagle and Missouri River Eagle in July; the Wabash City … Continue reading