Union Pacific Historical Society

Calendar Call – It’s time to put together the 2023 UPHS calendar. Submissions of digital images for the calendar from anyone and everyone are welcome. E-mail small JPEGs of your favorite Union Pacific images to leachman@berkeley.edu with whatever caption information you have and an identification of the photographer. Please do not submit images you do not own. I will accept nominated images until September 15, whereupon I will select the images to appear in the calendar and get back to you to arrange submission of a large TIFF file (or a large JPEG if you do not have a TIFF) of each selected image. The completed calendar will be mailed to sustaining and preservation members along with the Fall 2023 issue of The Streamliner and will go on sale in the Company Store shortly after that time. Many thanks, Rob Leachman

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.

Spring issue of The Streamliner available now! – In this issue, dispatcher Cameron MacArthur recalls a trip he made on the OME between Salt Lake City and Cheyenne in 1979, and Art Crawford provides an overview of his career on the UP beginning as a student telegrapher through his retirement as a dispatcher in Cheyenne. Art’s career spanned an interesting era, from the last of UP passenger service to the beginning of computer-aided dispatching. In other articles, Jim Ehernberger shares his research on the 815, the only UP locomotive built in Wyoming, and Bob Krieger provides a timely account of the restoration of Challenger 3985, which Union Pacific recently donated for preservation and an eventual return to service. Get your copy at the company store!

New 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!

New book on Cheyenne facilities! – A. J. Wolff and Jim Ehernberger have prepared this fine treatise on UP facilities in Cheyenne. This book is an invaluable source of information for modelers recreating UP’s Cheyenne facilities in various eras, and it will be appreciated by UP history buffs seeking to understand UP’s Cheyenne terminal operations over the years. Hard cover, 128 pages containing more than 200 black and white and color images. Historical details are provided in each caption regarding the structures, including shops, roundhouses, servicing tracks, freight yard, stores department, depot, tower A, stockyards, etc.. The book is available now in the company store.

Next Convention – Our 2023 Convention will be held in Pasco, Washington, July 19-22, 2023.

Union 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]

WE WELCOME OUR NEWEST UPHS MEMBERS

New Members since March 5, 2019  

As of June 3, 2019 RCL