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 on that route, UP extensively remodeled it, calling the revised train the LA-4. The remodel converted what had been a baggage car into a lounge-observation car known as the Copper King. Like the Frontier Shack and Little Nugget cars, the interior of this car was designed by Walt Kuhn.
Click image to download a 1.7-MB PDF of this 24-page booklet.
The walls of the lounge were electroplated with copper, which must have given it a spectacular appearance. The windows were circular portholes fitted with rotatable polarized glass. By turning the glass, passengers could control how much sunlight entered the car. The front quarter of the car was a barber shop/valet/shower, while the rear two-thirds was a lounge with 41 seats. Between the barber shop and lounge was a small kitchen-buffet for serving beverages and snacks.
This booklet, which is the same size as the Frontier Shack and Little Nugget booklets, isn’t in my collection, but I was able to download pages from the Walter Kuhn papers that are on the Smithsonian web site. Oddly, the site has 26 digitized pages, which doesn’t work in a booklet that has to be either 24 or 28 pages. I combined some of the pages to fit them into a 24-page format.
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Click image to download a 1.2-MB PDF of this 22-page booklet.
The papers also included a City of Los Angeles booklet that discusses the Copper King in detail. This booklet is wider than the other booklets in this series. In this case, the Smithsonian site only had 21 digitized pages. Update: On close examination, I see that the Smithsonian left out two pages describing and picturing the dining car. With a blank back cover that was typical of this series of booklets, that would bring the total to 24.
The Copper King didn’t stay on the City of Los Angeles route for long. In response to overwhelming demand for the 39-3/4-hour train, UP purchased new equipment with greater capacities in 1941, and the LA-4 became the City of Portland for a time. Later, it was relegated to service as a spare whenever one of the longer trains was out of service. Here’s a photo of the Copper King doing duty as the City of Denver, its odd shape resulting from the tapered sides of the early UP streamliners. The car was last used in 1950 and, sadly, scrapped in 1956.