UP Passenger Car Roster
Updates and Corrections
[Most recent entry listed first.]
September 4, 2008
Added new page for UP's three classes of Express Boxcars.
May 11, 2008
Updated the information about the three water cars, UPP 809 and 814, and UP 907853, 907856, and 907857, used with UP's steam locomotives, and moved them to their own roster page.
April 10, 2008
Pullman Standard lightweight sleeper "Imperial Flower" converted to M of W Bunk Car, along with a modernized heavyweight diner that were assigned to the Salt Lake City wreck train, were moved to Ogden earlier last year to the scrapper. When last seen, they were spotted in Durbano's spur awaiting the torch upon resolution of the bill of sale. This equipment had sat unused for about five years and it was time for them to go. They still might be there as there were three baggage cars on that spur also, two from the same wreck train (now tool cars) and one that had already been there for a while. Car numbers are not available at this time. (Rich Castagna, email dated April 10, 2008)
September 24, 2007
Of the 18 passenger cars "preserved" by the Promontory Chapter, National Railway Historical Society, most were not operational beyond the occasional low-speed excursion on the Salt Lake Garfield & Western short line. The only one still remaining at Salt Lake City is the "Janice L" which is used as a clubhouse for the chapter.
There was a lot of passenger equipment stored on the SLG&W in the 1980s which has since disappeared and I'm honestly not sure what was owned by the chapter, and what was owned by SLG&W.
Following is an abreviated list, as provided by "davew833" on Trainorders.com:
- UP dome lounge observation 9003 changed hands several times after the chapter sold it in 1987, until it ended up in the possession of Northern Sky Rail Charters, who fully renovated and restored it to operation as "Northern Sky". I would say that's a good thing, since it was basically derelict when Promontory had it.
- CB&Q Budd dome coach 4719 "Silver Ranch", now owned/stored by BNSF in Topeka, Kansas.
- UP heavyweight modernized lounge buffet 4052 (SLG&W 711)
- UP heavyweight modernized lounge 1535, "Janice L", modified with a partially-open observation platform about 1982, still at Salt Lake City.
- UP(?) heavyweight open-platform business car, sold/remodeled as a commercial office in Murray, Utah, recently seen at Heber, Utah, on the Heber Valley Railroad painted green and lettered "Pullman".
- UP lightweight lounge dorm 6100. Heavily vandalized, sold in the early 1990s to the Nevada State Railroad museum and moved to Boulder City, Nevada.
- UP lightweight "Challenger" coach painted to commemorate the Golden Spike Centennial, later sold/donated to Heber Valley Railroad and damaged in a runaway derailment about 2004.
- AMT/PC/NYC lightweight coach/snack bar car. Disposition unknown.
- AMT/ATSF 'El Capitan' coach (two cars). Disposition unknown.
- AMT/GN lighweight sleeper. Disposition unknown.
- UP MoW train of about 6-7 heavyweight passenger cars. One modernized heavyweight coach burned in a fire about 1987, assumed scrapped. Other cars sold to Nevada State Railroad Museum in the early 1990s.
- SP heavyweight diner completely gutted.
September 13, 2007
Added numerous updates and corrections from David Varilek of Empire Builder Private Cars of Fremont, Neb., for the following cars:
- Houston, Business Car
- Howard Fogg, Power Car
- National Command
- UP 125, Business Car
- UPP 206, Power Car
- SP 251, Sleeper
- SP 290, Diner
- SP 291, Lounge
- SP 292, Sleeper
- UP 1869, Exhibition Car (ex UP 5338, Chair Car)
- UPP 2500, Baggage Dormitory (ex SP 250)
- UP 5016, Lunch Counter Car
- UP 903682, Tool Car (ex UP 5900, Postal Mail Storage)
- UP 903686, Tool Car (ex UP 5904, Postal Mail Storage)
- UP 906065, Bunk Car (ex American Navy, Sleeper)
- UP 906213, Bunk Car (ex Imperial Rock, Sleeper)
May 30, 2007
Rearranged UP passenger car rosters to breakout the non-UP cars that were painted yellow and gray. Previously, these were part and parcel of the UP listings.
September 9, 2006
Added 1950 UP Passenger Train Consists as part of a larger project of adding other train consists as they become available.
August 4, 2006
Work on UP Passenger Cars roster resumed after a major data source has become available.
Added updates to Harriman car listings.
July 9, 2006
Work on the passenger car rosters is stalled, pending preparation of some important source material.
April 23, 2006
Lots of minor editing on UP's passenger cars, mostly to bring all groups into a common format. Work continues on building the linked main index listings for the numbered cars and the other large groups, including the Heritage fleet and the business cars.
March 1, 2006
For the past three weeks, work has been progressing to add a complete roster of Union Pacific Steel and Streamliner Passenger Cars. This remains a work in progress, with lots of work still to be done. But at least the basics are there…
July 14, 2005
Work is progressing on building an on-line version of an all-time roster of Union Pacific’s steel and Streamliner passenger cars, from the Harriman-style cars beginning in 1909, through to the newest lightweight cars of the 1960s, along with UP’s current Heritage fleet.
November 25, 2004 (Thanksgiving)
Still working on Union Pacific passenger cars. Like any project, this one is turning out to be bigger than I initially thought.
September 24, 2004
My time for the past three weeks, and likely for at least the next month or so, is being taken by work on a roster of UP’s steel passenger cars, including the heavyweights, the Harriman cars, the train set cars of 1934-1937, and all the lightweight cars after that. If anyone can help, contact me (in the menu at top).
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