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
Here are four more Union Pacific postcards that originally came in pairs. Since they have already been separated, we can only guess which ones originally came together. Click image to download a 0.4-MB PDF of this postcard. Judging from color … Continue reading
These postcards were either sold or (more likely) given away in pairs, allowing people to separate them along the perforations before writing and mailing them to friends and relatives. The two cards that make up this pair include photos of … Continue reading
This postcard wasn’t issued by the Union Pacific, but it shows the rail line and it is fun to trace the history of the card and the scene it shows. This particular postcard says that it shows Tunnel No. 3 … Continue reading
These postcards show New York Central passenger trains pulled by Diesels painted in the “lightning stripes” scheme used in the late 1940s and 1950s. The first has a photo of a train along the Hudson River heading for New York … Continue reading
This postcard depicts the Spokane’s Great Northern train station, which was also used by the Spokane, Portland & Seattle Railway. The water in the foreground is the Spokane River, as the train station was on Havermale Island. Click image to … Continue reading
