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Everyone please check out the Company Store — Under the tab for “Books & Magazines” there is now an area called “Used Books”.  Generous donations of books by members and member estates have made some classic old books available for sale.  Many are very rare and in good to excellent condition.   These books are not limited to Union Pacific Railroad either as many railroads are represented in different eras.   About 40 books are listed now and as time allows the list will expand.  The prices are very good and shipping is added at the time of purchase.   Purchases here will help support UPHS goals and projects with making more historical information available online.

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.

uphs-logoUPHS 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.

James L Ehernberger and Marc Entze, Union Pacific Motor Cars – Book – Available Now in the Company Store

This is a Book Cover for the New Union Pacific Motor Car Book.

During the twentieth century, the Union Pacific Railroad gained worldwide renown for the development and operation of high output locomotives powered by steam, gas-electric, and the internal combustion engine. What is less commonly known 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 entries in Union Pacific’s nationwide fleet.

Available now from the Union Pacific Historical Society.

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