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Introduction of Union Pacific's M-10000 streamliner at East Los Angeles station, Commerce, 1934

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Title: Introduction of Union Pacific's M-10000 streamliner at East Los Angeles station, Commerce, 1934
Date Created and/or Issued: October 1934
1934-10
Publication Information: Los Angeles Times
Contributing Institution: UCLA, Library Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research Library
Collection: Los Angeles Times Photographic Archives
Rights Information: US
UCLA Library Special Collections, A1713 Charles E. Young Research Library, Box 951575, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1575. Email: spec-coll@library.ucla.edu. Phone: (310) 825-4988
Description: Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds.
[Duplicate of uclamss_1429_4000. This one is a cleaner print.]
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; and “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 introduction of the Union Pacific Railroad's M-10000 streamline express passenger train, with the first internal combustion engine. Two engineers are visible at the helm and a group of people are waiting on the platform. Possible in Los Angeles to mark its first trip from Omaha to Los Angeles.
Text from negative sleeve: Union Pacific Railroad, Streamline Train, 1934. [Related to images in uclamss_1429_4000. Union Pacific R.R., Locomotives.]
Type: image
Format: b&w nitrate negative
Identifier: uclamss_1429_3997
ark:/21198/zz002cpq6v
Language: No linguistic content
Subject: M-10000 (Locomotive)
Railroad trains--American--California--Los Angeles
Union Pacific East Los Angeles Station (Commerce, Calif.)
Source: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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