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Union Pacific is a 1939 American Western drama directed by Cecil B. DeMille and starring Barbara Stanwyck, Joel McCrea and Robert Preston.Based on the 1936 novel Trouble Shooter by Western fiction author Ernest Haycox, the film is about the building of the eponymous railroad across the American West.
A 1939 colorized postcard depicting the Union Pacific's streamlined M-10001 City of Portland. The rebuilt train was re-delivered on May 23, 1935, and after some test runs was dedicated as the first City of Portland on June 5 at the Portland Rose Festival, entering service between Portland and Chicago the following day.
The Union Pacific Railroad's M-10003, M-10004, M-10005, and M-10006 were four identical streamlined 2-car power car diesel-electric train sets delivered in May, June, and July 1936 from Pullman-Standard, with prime movers from the Winton Engine Corporation of General Motors and General Electric generators, control equipment and traction motors.
The two locomotives were delivered to UP in April 1939, and they completed test runs and participated in a variety of publicity events for the railroad, including the grand opening of the Los Angeles Union Passenger Terminal, the world premiere of Cecil B. DeMille's film Union Pacific, and an inspection by President Franklin D. Roosevelt.
It was the first streamliner with sleeping cars and the first streamliner running from Chicago to the Pacific coast; its 39-hour-45-minute schedule became the standard. (In April 1935 the fastest train took 59 hr 20 min Chicago to Portland.) [ 1 ] The M-10001 was withdrawn in March 1938 and replaced with another articulated trainset, the former ...
Title Director Cast Genre Notes $1,000 a Touchdown: James P. Hogan: Joe E. Brown, Martha Raye, Eric Blore, Susan Hayward: Comedy: Paramount: 20,000 Men a Year: Alfred ...
The Union Pacific operated the M-10000 as a three-car set until the railroad was retired the set in 1941. The trainset's 1942 scrapping provided Duralumin that was recycled for use in war-time military aircraft. [7] A 1939 colorized postcard depicting the Union Pacific's streamlined M-10001 City of Portland
The boiler for the S1 was the largest built by the Pennsylvania Railroad; with 660 square feet (61 m 2) of direct heating surface and 500 one-inch diameter tubes, the total heating surface area of S1 was 7,746 square feet (719.6 m 2); it was 99.3% as massive as the boiler for Union Pacific's 4000-class "Big Boy" locomotives. In terms of drawbar ...