Union Pacific introduced the Challenger, its low-cost train to Los Angeles, in June, 1935. This brochure must have been issued about that time or soon after. Although it is undated, times shown in the brochure for trains arriving in Las … Continue reading
Union Pacific’s budget train and competitor to the El Capitan, the Challenger began operating with heavyweight equipment in 1935 and was discontinued in 1947. In 1954, UP had acquired enough streamlined passenger cars to revive the train, and in 1955 … Continue reading
Here’s a menu cover that was missing from my collection and that I didn’t previously know existed. However, it is predictable that UP would include a photo of the Grand Canyon as one the covers in of its series of … Continue reading
Here are three more note pad sheets advertising Union Pacific trains. I’m told that the note pad these came from contained all three of these plus the three shown yesterday in rotation. Again, the Overland logo dates these to before … Continue reading
Here’s my second menu in the short-lived “Modern” series, which used the photos from the previous “Art Nouveau” series but replaced the busy background with a clean white space and a few blue pinstripes. (My other menu in this series … Continue reading
Union Pacific issued lots of postcards, and I’ll be presenting nearly six dozen of them over fourteen (not necessarily consecutive) days. Today, we’ll look at a few cards overtly advertising UP trains and routes. Click image to download a 180-KB … Continue reading
Possibly prompted by the introduction of the first streamlined trains, in 1935 Union Pacific began a new series of menus that replaced the art nouveau borders of its earlier menus with a clean white background set off by blue pinstripes. … Continue reading
As noted yesterday, after 1932, Union Pacific dropped the word “system” from its logo, so these blotters date from 1933 or later. “The Overland Route” was removed from the logo in 1942, so these blotters from the Dale Hastin collection … Continue reading
Union Pacific handed out this eight-page “souvenir album” to passengers on the last runs of its daily trains before Amtrak took over, April 30, 1971. A letter from UP CEO J.C. Kenefick offers a “reluctant goodbye to that small but … Continue reading
Though starting in 1956 Union Pacific combined the Challenger with the City of Los Angeles during the off-peak season, it still operated them as a separate trains in the summers. This menu is dated July, 1959, so it would have … Continue reading
