Union Pacific Steel Passenger Cars
Union Pacific Streamliner Cars
This page was last updated on December 26, 2007.
Source Material:
Official Railway Equipment Register (ORER):
Data for September 1920 to October 1941 extracted in spreadsheet form by Larry Hochhalter.
Copies of numerous individual issues of the ORER from as early as 1902 and as late as 1937 have been graciously furnished to me by others. Click here for a listing of the ORER issues, and who shared them.
Digital copies of ORER on CD of UP (including OSL, OWR&N, and LA&SL) pages for October 1919, December 1930, and July 1935 purchased from Westerfield.
Official Register of Passenger Train Equipment (ORPTE):
Data for March 1943 to March 1971 extracted in spreadsheet form by Larry Hochhalter.
Copies of indivual issues for almost every issue from March 1943 to March 1971 were furnished by Dick Harley, with September 1948 coming from Chris Lane.
Union Pacific Railroad Company, Passenger Car Diagrams, digital copy of 73-page pre-1939 diagram book furnished by Larry Hochhalter.
Union Pacific Railroad Company, Including Its Leased Lines, List of Agencies, Stations, Equipment, Etc., Form 70, January 1, 1931, copies from Bob Probst
Union Pacific Railroad Company, Including Its Leased Lines, List of Agencies, Stations, Equipment, Etc., Form 70, January 1, 1942, copies from Bob Probst
Union Pacific Railroad Company, Including Its Leased Lines, List of Agencies, Stations, Equipment, Etc., Form 70, No. 63, January 1, 1943
Union Pacific Railroad Company, Including Its Leased Lines, List of Agencies, Stations, Equipment, Etc., Form 70, No. 64, January 1, 1946, reprinted by Intermountain Chapter, NRHS, April 1991
Union Pacific Railroad Company, Including Its Leased Lines, List of Agencies, Stations, Equipment, Etc., Form 70, No. 65, January 1, 1951
Union Pacific Railroad Company, Historical Equipment Still in Use, (web pages) http://www.uprr.com/aboutup/history/histequp/index.shtml
Further Reading:
Books
Barger, Ralph L. Union Pacific Business Cars, 1870-1991 (Greenburg Publishing Co., Sykesville, Md.) 1992
Davies, G.B. Union Pacific Railroad Passenger Cars, Volume 1, 1950-1964 (G. B. Davies & Associates, Omaha, Neb.) First printing, October 1976.
Davies, G.B. Union Pacific Railroad Passenger Cars, Volume 2, 1940-1949 (G. B. Davies & Associates, Omaha, Neb.) First printing, September 1977.
Randall, W. David. The Passenger Car Library, Volume 7, Southwestern Railroads (RPC Publications, Alton, Ill.) 2003
Randall, W. David and William G. Anderson. The Official Pullman-Standard Library, Volume 13, Union Pacific 1933-1937 (RPC Publications, Godfrey, Ill.) 1993
Randall, W. David and William G. Anderson. The Official Pullman-Standard Library, Volume 14, Union Pacific 1937-1958 (RPC Publications, Godfrey, Ill.) 1993
Ranks, Harold E., and William W. Kratville. The Union Pacific Streamliners. (Kratville Publications, Omaha, Neb.) First printing 1974; fifth printing 1992.
Seidel, David. Union Pacific Passenger Equipment, Wooden to Present Day (Harbor Mist Publications, Omaha, Neb.) First printing, 1985; fourth printing May 2004 (revised), with updates for September 12, 2004.
Magazine Articles
"Heavyweight Dining Cars" by Terry Metcalfe, The Streamliner, Volume 1, Number 3, July 1985, pages 26-35
"Union Pacific's Pacific Series Sleepers" by Robert Darwin The Streamliner, Volume 4, Number 4, pages 4-17
Passenger Car Equipment, The Streamliner, Volume 1, Number 4, pages 18-19; an April 1927 (updated through May 1929) listing of Union Pacific passenger cars (does not include OSL, OWR&N or LA&SL cars).
"Western Series Passenger Cars" by Thorton Waite, The Streamliner, Volume 7, Number 2 (published February 1992), pages 17-31
Letter To The Editor, "Western Series Update", The Streamliner, Volume 7, Number 4, pages 35-36
"The Challenger" by John Carroll, The Streamliner, Volume 9, Number 4, Fall 1994, pages 4-31
"The Challenger, Part II: The Equipment" by John Carroll, The Streamliner, Volume 10, Number 1, Winter 1994-1995, pages 26-44
"From Passenger Car to Dining Car…" by Thornton Waite, The Streamliner, Volume 10, Number 4, pages 10-15
"The Railway Post Office on the Union Pacific Railroad" by Kenton H. Forrest, The Streamliner, Volume 12, Number 2, pages 23-38.
"Omaha's Union Stations" by Lou Schmitz, The Streamliner, Volume 13, Number 4, Fall 1999, pages 8-23, 38.
"The City of St. Louis" by John R. Signor and Art Riordon, The Streamliner, Volume 13, Number 4, Fall 1999, pages 24-37.
"Pintsch Gas Lighting of Union Pacific Passenger Cars", by Clive Carter, The Streamliner, Volume 14, Number 1, Winter 2000, pages 11-13.
"Union Pacific's Horse Baggage Automobile Cars" by The Streamliner Staff, The Streamliner, Volume 14, No. 1, Winter 2000, pages 28-35.
"Union Station Memories, A view From Trackside During World War II" by Lou Schmitz, The Streamliner, Volume 14, No. 3, Summer 2000, pages 26-32.
"Modeling HO Scale Streamliners On A Budget" by Steve Orth, The Streamliner, Volume 15, Number 1, Winter 2001, pages 17-27.
"Union Pacific Hub And Spoke Train Operations in Eastern Washington" by Thornton Waite and the Streamliner Staff, The Streamliner, Volume 15, Number 1, Winter 2001, pages 28-35.
"Union Pacific Rolling Stock Data Sheet, Chair Sleeper Cars 2781, 2783" The Streamliner, Volume 15, Number 1, Winter 2001, page 36.
"Names of Heavyweight Pullman cars Assigned or Operating in Union Pacific Trains in the 1930s" Data by John Carroll, The Streamliner, Volume 15, Number 2, Summer 2001, pages 26-30.
"The Portland Rose" by Larry Hochhalter, The Streamliner, Volume 15, Number 3, Summer 2001, pages 5-32.
"Kitbashing Union Pacific 40-Foot Express cars in HO Scale" by Gary E. Binder and Steve Orth, The Streamliner, Volume 15, Number 3, Summer 2001, pages 33-37. Additional information presented in RPO letter to the editor, The Streamliner, Volume 15, Number 4, Fall 2001, pages 6-7.
Photo: Last car from Omaha Coach Shop (UP Business Car "Lone Star", remodeled from Business Car "Pocatello"), The Streamliner, Volume 16, Number 1, Winter 2002, page 7
Product Review: Walthers Pacific Series Sleeper, The Streamliner, Volume 16, Number 1, Winter 2002, page 39
"General Motors Aerotrain" by Bill Kratville and The Streamliner staff, The Streamliner, Volume 17, Number 1, Winter 2003, pages 9-13
"The Train of Tomorrow" by Bill Kratville and The Streamliner staff, The Streamliner, Volume 17, Number 2, Spring 2003, pages 30-38
"Combination Baggage-Passenger Cars" by Clive S. Carter, The Streamliner, Volume 17, Number 4, Fall 2003, pages 12-23. Includes information about both wooden cars and steel cars.
"A Brief History of Fox Park", by David Seidel, The Streamliner, Volume 18, Number 1, Winter 2004, pages 32-38
"Union Pacific Boiler Cars B-1 and B-2", The Streamliner, Volume 18, Number 3, Summer 2004, pages 33-36
"The Forty Niner" by Dave Seidel", The Streamliner, Volume 18, Number 4, Fall 2004, pages 7-20
Acknowledgements:
This work started in September 2004, and the basic listings were completed by early December. The major portion of this roster is based on the work of Dick Harley and Dave Seidel. Dick has compiled several spreadsheets based on his research into UP's passenger car folio sheet diagram books, and has readily shared those files with me.
Dave Seidel has for the past 20 years been deeply involved in Union Pacific passenger car research, publishing his research first in The Mixed Train, a publication of The Camerail Club of Omaha, Neb. He later published his research as a sel-published softbound book which itself has been through several reprints and revisions. The most recent edition is dated April 2004, and it was this edition from which almost all dispositions in these listings have been taken. With his premission, I was able to scan the entire book, and manipulate the data as Excel spreadsheets. Additional information has been based on his February 2006 update. (Click here for contact information for Dave Seidel's Harbor Mist Publications.)
Additional research was furnished by Larry Hochhalter, who extracted the contents of almost all available copies of both the Official Railway Equipment Register (ORER) and the Official Register of Passenger Train Equipment (ORPTE), and compiled the data as an electronic spreadsheet. Ed Workman furnished copies of early Official Railway Equipment Registers, and Bob Probst furnished copies of Union Pacific's Form 70s.
Ralph Barger completed a summary of Harriman Common Standard Heavyweight Passenger Cars, that he distributed as a handout during his clinic given at the 12th Annual Prototype Modelers Seminar, October 27-30, 2005 at Napierville, Ill. This copyrighted summary covers the known arch roof Harriman-style cars (over 3,000 cars) built by all builders for all railroads. Only the UP portion was extracted for the purposes of this roster here at UtahRails, with the major use being his compilation of the Pullman lot and plan numbers.
In April 2005, Jeff Cauthen began proofing the various listings as he compiled applicable data for the SPT&HS's series of SP passenger car books. Jeff has been kind enough to offer several suggestions and corrections. His close attention to detail has proven to be truly invaluable.
