June 25, 2015

News at the Top

Autumn issue of The Streamliner available now! – Mark Amfahr details how Union Pacific managed their motive power fleet from the 1940s to the early 1970s. Mark provides analysis of UP’s freight locomotive pool assignments in 1968, and a photo essay by Jack Wolff illustrates the diversity of motive power then in use on the railroad. Great care was taken to insure standard numbering practices on UP’s equipment, and Jim Ehernberger provides a look at an unusual case where the same number was used by two different locomotives. In addition, Jeff Asay provides an overview of train order dispatching in the 1940s between Los Angeles and Riverside, prior to CTC. This issue concludes with a memoriam to two longtime UPHS members and UP historians Francis Gschwind and George Cockle. Available now in the company store.

uphs-logoNext Convention – Our 2020 Convention will take place May 13-16, 2020, in Cheyenne, WY at the Red Lion Hotel. The convention is timed to be in conjunction with festivities surrounding Depot Days, Cheyenne Heritage Days, and the Sherman Hill Model Railroad Club’s annual show. More details as they are developed.

Links have been updated under the Resources tab. In particular, a link has been added directing you to the Union Pacific Steam Club, where you can sign up and keep up to date with the steam program and its excursions. [February 27, 2019]

 

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September 1, 2018

Wyoming PBS Broadcast

On Thursday September 13, 2019 UPHS Board Member John Cazahous will be Program Host for the showing of the video “End of Track” during Pledge Night aired on Wyoming PBS. The video concerns construction of Union Pacific across Wyoming. John will be promoting not only sponsorship of PBS but also membership in UPHS.

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April 12, 2017

 Calendar Call – The UPHS is seeking photos for use in our annual calendar. The calendar is a high-quality product not for sale. Instead, it is distributed to all Sustaining and Preservation level members of UPHS before the end of the year. Here is your chance to help out the Society in one of its yearly projects.

We are looking for high-quality, clean photos of Union Pacific subjects. Action shots, roster shots, and photographs of structures are all of interest.  Black & white prints, color slides, prints and digital images are all accepted.  Color slides must be scanned at a minimum of 3000 dpi. If you are going to scan prints, please do so at a minimum of 400 dpi.  Please include a brief description of each image submitted as well as the name of the photographer. Submitted material will not be returned and is kept by the UPHS unless special arrangements are made. The photographers of the images selected for the calendar will be credited in the captions. Please submit photos for the 2020 UPHS Calendar no later than July 1, 2019. You can submit images electronically to calendarsubmissions@uphs.org or alternatively submit them by U.S. mail to: UPHS Calendar,  Attn: Rob Leachman, 245 Estates Drive, Piedmont, CA 94611. [February 27, 2019]

http://uphs.org/2017/04/6487/

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December 14, 2015

Member’s Area

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Members Area – The Member’s Area on the UPHS web site is an “online archive” of Union Pacific documents provided as a service to our members. Documents include timetables, dispatcher sheets, Form 70s, train consists, and more! Log-in information will be emailed to members twice yearly in the Second Section newsletter. If you are not already a member, please visit the Company Store to join the UPHS!

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May 23, 2015

Union Pacific Northwest Errata

Asay PNW CoverJPEG500Union Pacific Northwest book errata – Corrections and updates relating to Jeff Asay’s book, Union Pacific Northwest, published by the Union Pacific Historical Society, can be found on the UPHS Publications page. Click here to go directly the errata sheet for this publication.  [May 23, 2015]

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