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Dear UPHS Members,

At our fall board meeting in December your board decided due to increasing costs that the dues need to increase to cover ever-increasing expenses. We discussed the financial condition of the UPHS and decided to raise the dues with the basic dues being $50 effective April 1, 2025. A notification was supposed to be sent to all member’s last fall. Obviously, that did not happen. Then on March 30, 2025, you received an email reminding you of the dues increase or you saw it on Facebook. As President of the UPHS, I find this unacceptable, and I apologize for this situation happening. I have made an executive decision and told the board that we are deferring the dues increase until September 1, 2025. I am working hard to make sure this does not happen again.

For you, the members, this means that we will continue to renew at the old rate. For you the newest members, this means,  you can continue to renew your membership for several years at the old rate until September 1, 2025. You may want to take advantage of this delay to renew your membership at the old rate until September 1^st at a savings to you.

I want to thank each and every one of you for being a member of the Union Pacific Historical Society.

Remember, we are here to serve you and if you have any questions, or concerns, please feel free to contact one of your UPHS board members.

Sincerely,

Larry Tiffany

President UPHS

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To our loyal Members:  After 12 years of holding the line on dues, the Board of Directors has voted to increase the dues as shown on the table below.  They will be effective April 1, 2025 but current subscribers are welcome to renew and extend their subscriptions at the current rate until then.  Note that Canadian and International subscriptions will now referred to as Non-US Regular or Non-US Sustaining subscription.  Our new third party mailing service groups all foreign subscriptions regardless of destination into one “cost” bucket and UPHS pays a flat rate for foreign postage.

UPHS Commemorative Boxcar. Model Railroaders: Pacific Western Rail Systems offers 50-foot c5077 cubic-foot single-door UP boxcars emblazoned with the UPHS logo. The price is $41.95 (HO) and $29.98 (N) per car plus shipping and handling.  This price is subject to change in January account potential tariffs.  One hundred total were produced, 50 of each scale, so hurry if you want one! PWRS also offers this car without the UPHS logo. For HO scale go to Pacific Western Rail Systems to order.   For N scale go to Pacific Western Rail Systems to order.

Book on Camas Prairie Railroad!  – Carefully researched from railroad papers and interviews with employees, this book tells the full story of the Camas Prairie Railroad. This history presents the origins of the unique cooperation between the parent companies Union Pacific Railroad and Northern Pacific Railway, and details the many routes surveyed to the railroad’s namesake Camas Prairie and to the logging camp at Headquarters, Idaho. Includes maps of the many surveyed lines considered in Lapwai Canyon, site of the famous Halfmoon bridge. This 320-page hardbound book is complete with information on operations and equipment, maps of the full railroad and key points, and over 350 illustrations and photographs. Now available at the company store!

UPHS Archives at the American Heritage Center of the University of Wyoming – The American Heritage Center is developing a digital library of the images and diagrams in the UPHS Collection at AHC. This is a long-term, gradual process; only a fraction of our images are digitized at this point. A long-run goal is to develop an indexed, searchable digital library of small scans of our images for the benefit of our membership and others. Some of the completed small scans have been posted on-line by AHC. You can take a look at https://digitalcollections.uwyo.edu/luna/servlet/uwydbuwy~107~107.