Union Pacific Steel Passenger Cars
Union Pacific Streamliner Cars
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Heritage Fleet Roster — A roster listing of Union Pacific's steel passenger cars after 1971, including the excursion fleet used with the steam locomotives and other special operations, and other cars operated after the startup of Amtrak in May 1971.
Business Car Roster — A roster listing of Union Pacific's steel business and executive cars, including cars owned by subsidiary roads OSL, OWR&N and LA&SL, and former C&NW, MKT, MP, and SP cars.
Named and Numbered Cars
Named Heavyweight Cars — A roster listing of all named heavyweight clerestory-roofed cars, including named Pullman sleeper cars assigned to UP.
Named Streamliner Cars — A roster listing of all named Streamliner cars, from UP's early Streamliner and City trains of the 1930s and early 1940s.
Named Lightweight Cars — A roster listing of all named lightweight cars, from the earliest American series Pullman sleeper cars from 1942 for the non-Streamliner trains, through to the newest Star series sleepers from 1956.
Numbered Streamliner Cars — A roster listing of all numbered Streamliner cars, from UP's early Streamliner and City trains of the 1930s and early 1940s. These were the cars with CD, CP, LA, and SF prefixes, and those with the original five-digit numbers.
Numbered Cars — An index listing of all numbered steel (non-Streamliner) passenger cars, including all of the Harriman-style arch-roofed cars (1909-1927), all heavyweight clerestory-roofed cars (1926-1935), and all lightweight cars (1937-1964).
Named and Numbered Non-UP Cars — A roster of non-Union Pacific cars painted yellow and gray for service within UP trains.
Pre-1915 Cars
Harriman Common Standard Cars — A listing of Common Standard cars, sorted by car numbers.
Harriman Common Standard Cars — A listing of Common Standard cars, sorted by build dates (includes known builder lot and plan numbers).
UP Pre-1915 Numbered Cars — A roster listing of all UP steel passenger cars prior to the 1915-1916 general renumbering.
OSL Pre-1915 Numbered Cars — A roster listing of all Oregon Short Line steel passenger cars prior to the 1915-1916 general renumbering.
OWR&N Pre-1915 Numbered Cars — A roster listing of all Oregon-Washington Railway & Navigation steel passenger cars prior to the 1915-1916 general renumbering.
SP,LA&SL (LA&SL) Pre-1921 Numbered Cars — A roster listing of all San Pedro, Los Angeles & Salt Lake (Los Angeles & Salt Lake after 1916) steel passenger cars prior to formal integtration into UP's numbering system in 1921.
Maintenance of Way and Company Service Cars
Maintenance of Way Cars — A roster listing of Union Pacific's maintenance of way cars in the road's 900000 series car numbers, that were converted from retired steel passenger cars.
Company Service Cars — A roster listing of Union Pacific's company service cars, including Rail Detector cars (DC-2 to DC-9), Track Evaluation Cars (EC-1 to EC-3), Track Inspection Vehicles (EC-4 and EC-5), along with the older Air Brake Instruction cars and Rules Examiner cars, that were converted from retired steel passenger cars.
Other Information
Acknowledgements — Acknowedgements for all the people who have helped me compile this information about UP's passenger cars.
Equipment Ownership — Information about how Union Pacific split up the ownership of its passenger car fleet along the lines of its corporate subsidiaries.
Further Reading — Additional reading about UP's passenger cars.
Glossary — A glossary of terms and phrases used in these roster listings and descriptive narratives.
History of Pullman — A history of the Pullman company that operated the nationwide network of railroad sleeper car services.
Q&A from The Streamliner — Excerpts from the Q&A column in The Streamliner, with questions and answers about Union Pacific's passenger car fleet. (The Streamliner is the quarterly publication of the Union Pacific Historical Society.)
Source Material — A listing of the source material used to compile this information about UP's passenger cars.
Train Consists — An index of passenger train consists. (Incomplete, under construction)
Modeling Information — Suggestions for modeling Union Pacific passenger trains and cars. (Incomplete, under construction)
Numbered Car Files
| Starting Group |
Ending Group |
File |
| OSL Diner 218 | OWR&N Coach Observation 1008 | numbered-1 |
| Chair 1050 | OWR&N Postal Storage 1496 | numbered-2 |
| Cafe Observation 1500 | Horse Baggage Automobile 1798 | numbered-3 |
| OSL Baggage 1826 | Cafe Lounge 2497 | numbered-4 |
| Postal Coach 2510 | OWR&N Diner 4068 | numbered-5 |
| LA&SL Chair 4140 | Coach 5556 | numbered-6 |
| Baggage 5601 | SP Coffee Shop Lounge 10206 | numbered-7 |
Heritage Fleet Files
| Starting Group |
Ending Group |
File |
| Business Car "Airslie" | Business Car "Lake Michigan" | heritage-fleet-1 |
| Business Car "Lewa" (ex MKT) | Sleeper "Wyoming" | heritage-fleet-2 |
| Business 99 (1st) | Business UPP 115 | heritage-fleet-3 |
| Business 116 | Sleeper 1610 | heritage-fleet-4 |
| Exhibit 1869 | Water Car 907857 | heritage-fleet-5 |
| Coach ATAX 4623 | Train Consists | heritage-fleet-misc |
