(erielack) Follow-up to UP sleeper thread

["Joseph A. Braun" <joebraun_@_optonline.net>]

Around Christmas I raised on the list the question of a UP passenger car I
remember seeing as a kid on the tail end of the Erie Ltd or the Lake Cities.
Joe Jordan and Randy Brown were helpful in providing the answer (and proved
the great value of this list!!).  Joe's response is bracketed below:

 

[Monday, December 26, 2005 9:50 PM  "Joe-The Union Pacific sleeper car was

undoubtably for one of the Harriman family who lived in Tuxedo, New York.

They had at least three members of the family on the Union Pacific Board of

Directos and at least one on the Erie BOD. Family members were always

assigned a sleeper or business car to travel west for meetings and east for

the return. In fact, one business car, the "Arden" named for a station on

the Erie RR, was assigned to Averal Harriman , who was Chairman of the UP.

They would put his car on a Chicago to Jersey City train on the Erie to take

him home to Tuxedo, NY and then send the car to Jersey City for servicing

and then park teh car next to the Tuxedo station for his next return. The

"Arden" has been rebuilt twice since the days of the Erie RR and still is on

the UP roster.  -Joe Jordan"]

 

Follow-up!  The current UPHS publication "The Streamliner" (Winter 2006 Vol
20 No1) has an article on the UP use of Scotchlite lettering in which
extensive reference is made to the business car Arden as the subject of the
first official UP drawing on the application of Scotchlite.  The drawing of
Arden is reproduced plus a color photograph  from 1962. 

 

Price for single copies of The Streamliner is $8 plus $1.50 for postage from
UPHS, PO BOX 4006, Cheyenne WY 82003-4006.

 

Joe Braun

 

 



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