Union Pacific Historical Society

Dedicated to the preservation of the history of the Union Pacific Railroad

James L Ehernberger and Marc Entze, Union Pacific Motor Cars – Book – Coming Soon

During the twentieth century, the Union Pacific Railroadgained worldwide renown for the development and operation of high output locomotives powered by steam, gas-electric,and the internal combustion engine. What is less commonlyknown is that the railroad embraced the internal combustion engine shortly after the turn of the century—just 36 years after the driving of the Golden Spike—in the form of the gasoline-powered passenger motor car. Although overshadowed by later advancements, the passenger motor car, of which many design elements would later be adapted to the railroad’s famous Streamliners, were the inaugural application of internal combustion technology on the Union Pacific.  The culmination of decades of research, this liberally-illustrated volume seeks to tell the definitive story of these unique entires to Union Pacific’s nationwide fleet.

Coming soon from the Union Pacific Historical Society.

From the Business Car

Hello again my fellow Union Pacific Historical Society members. I am sure many of you had some issues or concerns with UPHS and the board was aware of that fact. At our last board meeting the board voted to make changes in the officers of UPHS as our membership has dropped to about 1500 which is les than the Santa Fe and the Southern Pacific. I am back again for another stint as President, with George Luchs as your new Vice-President and Greg Gardner as your new Secretary with John Cazahous remaining as our treasurer. I made some minor tweaks to our committees, but nothing big other than Mark Entze resigning as our editor. Hopefully, you will like our new editor Dale Sanders who has been in this business for an exceptionally long time, and he is outstanding, and we are lucky to have him as our editor.

I hope some of you attended our online convention rather than travelling to California for an in-person convention in Perris CA. Rob Leachman did an excellent job putting together the online convention. We will have our next convention in Silvis IL with the convention hotel being in the Quad Cities. Looking at the work performed by their crew on the donated UP equipment should be a lot of fun. We are always looking for hosts for our upcoming conventions, so please do not be afraid to step up and volunteer. To those of you that donated to our recent fund-raising day for our endowment the $27K amount was very much appreciated and we will put it to effective use.

That is all for now, but we hope that you will like things that we are striving to improve on as we go forward into the future. Thank you for your support as a member and please feel free to reach out to the UPHS board members with thoughts and ideas you might have to make it even better!!!

Sincerely,

Larry Tiffany

President UPHS

As always, I would be glad to hear your suggestions about how to improve the Society, just email me at president@uphs.org.

 

Union Pacific Historical Society Endowment Fund

The Union Pacific Historical Society Endowment Fund supports the UPHS Archive Collection at the University of Wyoming – American Heritage Center. The UPHS Board of Directors voted in September 2020 to establish this new UPHS Endowment Fund through the University of Wyoming Foundation utilizing their 501(c)(3) non-profit standing. The University of Wyoming Foundation actively manages a portfolio of over 1,500 endowment funds that jointly support a wide range of activities at both the University of Wyoming and the adjoining American Heritage Center at Laramie. The University of Wyoming Foundation has existing staff well trained to handle any tax-deductible donations, plus will also generate and provide tax documentation to all donors. Utilizing the University of Wyoming Foundation staff ensures continuity of the management and specified use of the UPHS Endowment Fund should the UPHS cease to exist.

The targeted purpose of the UPHS Endowment Fund is to permanently fund archival preservation and management activities of the current (and future additions to the) UPHS Archive Collection now at American Heritage Center, as well as support other railroad-related transportation collections at AHC. From its founding, the American Heritage Center at Laramie has prided itself on being accessible to everyone – from the elementary school students learning about primary resources, to the college students researching their thesis, to the professional historians performing primary research for writing up their findings, to a broad cross-section of the public following their passions. The UPHS Archive Collection inside AHC in late 2020 measures more than 300 cubic feet of our physical collection and includes over 100 gigabytes of preserved digital materials. The primary eventual goal is to establish consistent funding for a full-time employee inside the American Heritage Center to manage the UPHS Archive Collection along with other railroad collections held at AHC. Details of the very specific permissible uses of the UPHS Endowment Fund are available on the UPHS.org website.

The strength of the Union Pacific Historical Society has always been the strong involvement and support of the membership. On behalf of the UPHS Board of Directors, as President I am now asking again for your support with contributing toward growing this new UPHS Endowment Fund.

Online Donation Instructions:

  1. Go to: www.uwyo.edu/giveonline
  2. Enter the amount you wish to donate.
  3. Select “Single Payment,” “Multiple Payments,” or “Recurring Payments“
  4. Select “View Individual UW Funds“
  5. Select “Other Fund Not Listed (Please Specify)“
  6. Click “Continue“
  7. Enter “UPHS Fund” for the name of the fund.
  8. Enter A21UPHS for the Appeal Code
  9. Click “Next” and complete checkout

You may mail your donation for the newly-formed UPHS Endowment Fund:

View/Download Donation Form and View More Information (pdf file)

Mail To:
University of Wyoming Foundation
Attn: UPHS Endowment Fund
222 S. 22nd St.
Laramie, WY 82070

Bank routing number and wire transfer information is available should you need it.  Contact 307 766-6300 or 888 831-7795 for this information. Make checks out to “University of Wyoming Foundation” with “UPHS Endowment Fund” in memo line.

Greg Gardner, President – Union Pacific Historical Society

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