Harbor Mist Publications
This page was last updated on December 26, 2007.
Here is the address for Harbor Mist Publications (David Seidel)
Harbor Mist Publications
6307 Seward Street
Omaha, NE 68104-4761
I have in my possession, two versions of "Union Pacific Passenger Equipment, Wooden to Present Day":
First Printing, 1985; Second Printing, 2002 (revised); acknowledgements page dated September 2002, with an eight-page revision dated August 2004, and a two-sided 3rd printing update, dated September 12, 2004.
First Printing, 1985; Fourth Printing, 2004 (revised); acknowledgements page dated May 2004, with a single-sided 4th Printing update, dated September 12, 2004.
A separate single-sheet update, dated February 1, 2006, was received via email on April 21, 2006.
In a note dated February 23, 2006, Dave Seidel writes:
I have always thought of passenger equipment in six classes:
1) Wooden. And in this class I divide them into two groups. A) the "cowboys & indians" cars which was equipment built from day one and are generally 20 - 40 feet long. B) the "modern" cars which was equipment generaly 60 feet + and began showing up in the 1890s for the early Overlands and Limited trains (and ended in the mid to late 1910s).
2) Heavyweight. These would be cars built with all steel consctuction begining in the early 1900s to about 1930s/1940s.
3) Motorcars. Any self-powered equipment general built in the 1900s to 1940s era.
4) Transets. These would be cars that were built to operate in unit train type services and 99 percent of the time would be for "streamlined" operations in the 1930s. In the case of the Union Pacific, these would be the sets from M-10000 to the LA/SF 4-5-6 sets, Train of Tomorrow and Aero Train.
5) Lightweight. These would be cars built in the post trainset era using "streamlined" designs.
6) Company service. And in this class I divide them into two groups: A) Business cars, instruction cars, rail test equipment and any non-revenue type passenger equipment. B) Passenger equipment sent to maintenance of way service (bunk cars, supply cars, kitchen cars, office cars, etc.)
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