Category Archives: Union Pacific Challenger

Union Pacific City of Los Angeles, Challenger, City of St. Louis leg-rest coach

Posted on August 15, 2014 by Gary Garth McCann

  From the booklet “California,” of which text is reproduced in a post below. Leg-rest coaches were the norm on Chicago-California trains. On Union Pacific, only its dome coaches were carpeted and were also otherwise much more striking in decor. … Continue reading →

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Union Pacific dome atop a coach

Posted on August 15, 2014 by Gary Garth McCann

From the booklet “California,” of which more text is produced in a post below. A dome coach ran on the City of Los Angeles and City of St. Louis, as well as on the Challenger when it and the City … Continue reading →

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Union Pacific California booklet

Posted on August 15, 2014 by Gary Garth McCann

Reproduced below, from the Union Pacific booklet “California,” are the pages that tell about its trains to California. Note the reference to the Challenger as a summer and Christmas-season train. The Challenger Streamliner or Challenger Domeliner’s brief years as a … Continue reading →

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Milwaukee Road “Colorado, Utah and other Mountain Vacationlands”

Posted on May 23, 2014 by Gary Garth McCann

Click to enlarge, and click on the enlargement to enlarge further. Some of the photos in this black-and-white booklet appear elsewhere on this blog in color, but I wanted to share them in the form of this Milwaukee Road promotion. … Continue reading →

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