Union Pacific Streamliner about to depart on a record-breaking trip to New York, Commerce, 1934

Item Overview

Title

Union Pacific Streamliner about to depart on a record-breaking trip to New York, Commerce, 1934

Date Created

October 1934

Date

1934-10

Publisher

Los Angeles Times

Language

No linguistic content

Collection

Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Notes

Description

Related to Los Angeles Times articles, "Record-Smashing Run of Streamline Train Tomorrow to Write Railroad History: Covered Wagon Trail Will See Speed Demon: Old and Colorful Chapter in Romance of Transportation to End as Blunt-Nosed Arrow Darts Out Into Night," 27 Oct. 1934: A4; "Streamline Train Here to Make Test Run Test: Union Pacific Officials Arrive in City as Passengers on Company's New Speed Equipment," 20 Oct. 1934: A1; “Tomorrow’s ‘Iron Horse’ Draws Throng: Rail Rocket Off Tonight: Union Pacific’s Streamliner Speedster To Start Sixty-Hour Trip to New York at 10 o’Clock,” 22 Oct. 1934: A2; “Rail Chiefs Ride New Flyer: Streamline Train Here To Make Test Run East: Union Pacific Officials Arrive in City as Passengers on Company’s New Speed Equipment,” 20, Oct. 1934: A1.
The Union Pacific Railroad's M-10000 express passenger train, the first with an internal combustion engine, about to depart Los Angeles at 10 p.m. (probably) for a record-breaking run across the continent. Conductor standing on the right holding a string across the track, reporters and other officials crowd the platform at Union Pacific East Los Angeles Station.

Caption

Text from negative sleeve: Union Pacific Railroad, Streamline Train, 1934.

Physical Description

Extent

1 photograph

Medium

b&w nitrate negative

Keywords

Genre

Night photographs
cellulose nitrate film
news photographs

Names

Union Pacific East Los Angeles Station (Commerce, Calif.)

Location

Commerce (Calif.)

Longitude

34.010015

Latitude

-118.156993

Resource type

still image

Subjects

M-10000 (Locomotive)
Railroad trains--American--California--Los Angeles