Welcome to the UPHS!! Founded in 1984, the Union Pacific Historical Society is an independent nonprofit organization dedicated to the preservation of the history of the Union Pacific Railroad from its beginning in 1862 to the operation as it is today. The society is not supported by, or affiliated with, the railroad other than the preservation of its rich and colorful history.

Neither we nor the railroad have any information to help genealogists.

This web site is intended to tell you about the Union Pacific Historical Society, and to be a clearing house for information about the history and current events of the Union Pacific Railroad. Information includes books, magazines, and CDs available to the general public.

One of the benefits of being a UPHS member is the society's magazine "The Streamliner", which is distributed to its members four times each year. The magazine is full of in-depth articles and photographs on the Union Pacific both past and present. We also hold a 3 to 4 day convention each summer with informative seminars and slide shows by the experts, tours of UP facilities, and excursions on current and former UP lines.. Take advantage of this wonderful source of information and become a UPHS member today.

 

 

If you have a question concerning the UPHS, or about the railroad's rich history, E-mail us at info@uphs.org . We will do our best to answer your question but, please realize we are volunteers and your question may need to be referred by snail mail to one of our historians or experts. We do not have any information on past employees.
   

Link to the UPHS Library Book List

A listing of all the books we know of containing information on the UPRR

   
Current News
   

Due to a computer programing malfunction of our new and improved membership renewal program, many people who renewed their subscription between Sept. 1 and Sept 15 may not have been sent their copies of the 22:4 Streamliner or their UPHS calendar if they are a Sustaining member. This error came to light about December 1. Bob Krieger in our Cheyenne office is working through the renewals and is mailing out the missing items as fast as he can. Now he knows why he has so many extra copies of the Streamliner stacked in the office.
   

The Streamliner issue 22:4 is now shipping. The Fall Second Section is mailed in a separate mailing. For our Sustaining members the 2009 Special Edition Richard Kindig Calendar will arrive with the Second Section mailing.

Next year is the 25th anniversary of the UPHS. The annual Convention will be held at the Little America Hotel and Convention Center July 8-11th in Cheyenne. Check the convention section of the website for updated information and the phone number to reserve your rooms. We recommend the rooms be reserved as early as possible as we are meeting the week before Frontier Days. Make your reservations now, you can always cancel later. The rooms will disappear fast once the reservation deadline passes.
   
A new order form is available to place orders for UPHS Company Store items, including all the Prototype Loco books, hard bound books and convention cars. To down load a copy
Click Here.
   

2008 Convention Cars are available

Click Here for more information
   

More in our Series of Prototype Locomotive Photos

from the Ehernberger Collection

NOW IN STOCK for 2008:

2-8-2 Mikado (MacArthur)

Volume 28: 2-8-2 Class UP 1900-1949: OSL 2001-2034

Volume 29: 2-8-2 Class OWR&N 2100- 2171

Volume 30: 2-8-2 Class UP 2201-2279

Volume 31: 2-8-2 Class UP 2280-2320; UP 2480-2499 (USRA)

Volume 32: 2-8-2 Class OSL 2504-2532; OSL 2535-2554 (USRA)

Volume 33: 2-8-2 Class OSL 2555-2564; LA&SL 2700-2735

Click Here for the full list

 
   

The Streamliner,
Volume 22, No. 4
Is now in the mail

Contents:
Run-Through Freight Train Operation and
Early Power Pooling 1960-1988
By Patrick Vana with Mark Amfahr

UP FEF-2 -3 Modifications Part 2
Upgrading the Athearn Genesis FEF
by Steve Orth

Union Pacific Orange Box Cars
By Dick Harley



Click Here for a picture of the cover

 
   

 
   

The 2010 UPHS Calendar needs you!
(Or at least your photographs)

We are calling for your submissions for the Union Pacific Historical Society 2010 calendar. We need photos from all over the Union Pacific system, and from any era. We would like to see a mix of trains, locomotives, structures, cars, activities or people. All submissions need to be received by May 1, 2009.

We can work from large prints (8X10), original slides, or digital image files (Tiff or Jpeg files, 300 dpi minimum for B/W, 400 dpi minimum for color). All submitted photographs will be kept by the UPHS. Please send your photograph to;
UPHS Calendar Committee
Mike Connor
2301 South 48 Street
Omaha, NE 68106
USA
   

WANTED:
For an upcoming UPHS project:
UP Passenger Car Diagrams.

The UPHS Archives Committee is preparing a set of UP Passenger Car Diagram books for sale. We would like them to be as complete as possible. If you have any UP or OSL, OWR&N or LA&SL Passenger Car Diagrams (folio sheets) from any era, please contact
Dick Harley at P.O. Box 178, Laguna Beach, CA 92652-0178,
or email : dick.harley4up@earthlink.net
   

 

Photos of our Recent Convention in Topeka

Click Here

   

The 25th Annual Convention
will be held in

Cheyenne, WY
Little America Hotel, rooms $89.
   


A New Detailed Index to the back issues of the Streamliner has been prepared by member Alan Potts.

Down load it here in .doc format
   

OGDEN RAILS

    A History of Railroading at the Crossroads of the West

    By Don Strack

    The Union Pacific Historical Society and Don Strack are proud to announce that they have collaborated to republish Dons Ogden Rails book of 1977 in a new and considerably expanded, redesigned format. Compared to the original 96-page vertical format, soft cover book, the new edition is 172 pages, hardcover in a 11" x 8.5" horizontal format. It contains 217 photographs, with 75 in color, along with 24 maps, including a double-page full color map of the Ogden facilities in 1969.

    Click Here for more information

     
   


Big Boy 4023 and
Centennial 6900

have moved to a new home in Omaha

Click Here to see their progress

 
   

The Jack Whitmeyer Collection
of steam era photos taken in the southern California is available for viewing and the purchase of copies.

Click Here: www.snowcrest.net/photobob/uphindex.html
   

UPRR Museum in Council Bluffs

A railroad legacy spanning more than 140 years is celebrated at the new Union Pacific Railroad Museum, located in Council Bluffs. The Carnegie Museum in Council Bluffs is the new location of the Union Pacific Railroad Museum Collection that was last housed in the Western Heritage Museum (The original Union Station) in Omaha.
The Union Pacific Railroad Museum is located at 200 Pearl St. in Council Bluffs, Iowa. Regular museum hours will be 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., Tuesday through Saturday. Admission is free.

Volunteers Needed

The museum needs volunteers to help out with reception, floor host duties, at the Gift Shop, research support and photo support. Those who participate are promised an equal amount of time accessing the collection on their own in exchange for the time volunteered. Since the inception of the UPHS, the Museum has supported us in so many ways and now is our chance to return the favor. Remember much of the material that is utilized in the Streamliner is obtained from this collection. Please try to help in this rewarding opportunity to not only help our UPHS endeavors but also that of the Carnegie Museum’s efforts. If you live in the Omaha area please contact Andi Hodge, Volunteer Coordinator, Carnegie Museum at 712-329-8307.

contents copyright 2006 Union Pacific Historical Society
   
Union Pacific HistoricalSociety
P.O. Box 4006
Cheyenne, WY 82003
email: uphs@uphs.org

 

 

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