W. Averell Harriman at the launch of the Union Pacific streamline express train, Commerce, 1934

Title: W. Averell Harriman at the launch of the Union Pacific streamline express train, Commerce, 1934
Date Created: October 22, 1934
Date: 1934-10-22
Publisher: Los Angeles Times
Language: No linguistic content
Collection: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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.
W. Averell Harriman, Union Pacific chairman of the board, at a news event for the launch of the Union Pacific Railroad's M-1000 streamline express passenger train, which is about to leave Los Angeles for a record-breaking cross-country trip to New York. The train is noting for being the first to have an internal combustion engine.
Caption: Text from negative sleeve: Union Pacific Railroad, Streamline Train, 1934.

Genre: cellulose nitrate film
news photographs
Night photographs
Names: Harriman, W. Averell (William Averell), 1891-1986
Union Pacific East Los Angeles Station (Commerce, Calif.)
Location: Commerce (Calif.)
Longitude: 34.010015
Latitude: -118.156993
Resource type: still image
Subjects: Railroad trains--American--California--Los Angeles
M-10000 (Locomotive)

Repository: University of California, Los Angeles. Library. Department of Special Collections
Local Identifier: uclamss_1429_3999
ARK: ark:/21198/zz002cpq8w
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