We’ve seen Maurice Logan’s paintings for the Southern Pacific in the form of posters. SP also issued some postcards with his paintings that are good examples of Logan’s impressionistic style of illustrating. The first shows “Lake Apache on the Apache … Continue reading
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Southern Pacific had a line entering San Francisco from the south, but trains from Portland and Ogden terminated at Oakland. While passengers to Oakland and other East Bay communities got off at Oakland’s 16th Street Station, until 1958, passengers to … Continue reading
We begin the New Year with a series of posts about the Southern Pacific. Before 1926, the main line of the Southern Pacific between Portland and Sacramento went over the Siskiyou Mountains of southwest Oregon and northern California. With just … Continue reading
Not as colorful as yesterday’s blotters, these provide examples of the variety of blotters GN used to advertise its premiere train in 1925. The first one shows the train pulled by a P2, 4-8-2 locomotive by Mt. Index in the … Continue reading
This postcard illustrates a very unusual car. In 1953, Union Pacific replaced the pre-war City of Denver with modern equipment. Most of the new cars were conventional, with coaches and sleepers easily exchangeable with nearly identical cars on other City … Continue reading
This 1964 breakfast menu for the City of Los Angeles features Disneyland’s Main Street, which is the second thing visitors would see after entering the park. UP wouldn’t want to include the first thing they would see: the Disneyland and … Continue reading
This postcard shows the Overland Limited “observation parlor with library writing desk and stenographic service.” The “library” apparently consisted of the books in the elegant, glass-fronted cabinet and the magazines on top. The “stenographic service” was the typewriter and an … Continue reading
Union Pacific Big Boy locomotives rarely, if ever, pulled passenger trains (according to one source they sometimes pulled troop trains), but as one of the largest steam locomotives ever built they proved fascinating to many passengers. Many large steam locomotives, … Continue reading
The first postcard today wasn’t issued by the Union Pacific, but it gives a clue about who rode that railroad’s first streamliners back when they operated just ten times a month. The back of the postcard, which is postmarked May … Continue reading
Here are four more UP postcards that were once paired but have been divided along the perforations. The first one shows a hand-colored and heavily retouched photo of Boulder Dam. Since the dam began operations in 1936, the postcard must … Continue reading