Union Pacific Streamliner Cover 1935

Wanted to share this 1935 cover. The locomotive is a Union Pacific M-10000, first internal combustion engine, lightweight streamlined express passenger unit in the United States. As a railfan, I had to snag this cover... even if I am a New Englander, not a Californian...

Nells250, love that cover. Congratulations on a great acquisition.

Nice cover.

Here's an advertising piece about same (also from June 1935)...just wonder why the cover is dated June 10 and the ad is advertising June 6. Could there have been a delay in introducing the service or is this simply another route?

Awesome cachet! Berwyn is a town near Chicago and located on Route 66. I cruised thru there last fall.

The train-set was delivered to the railroad in 1934. Here is the Wiki page: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M-10000

ALSO, the Con-Cor page for their 1936 era model, which also has some history: http://www.con-cor.com/M10000.html

An even better page with a timeline: http://myweb.msoe.edu/~westr/uptimeline.htm

The best thing about the cover is... it didn't cost much!

Nells250,

Great cover! That 1901 2c Pan-Am Expo issue is a nice touch and it almost adds the New England tie-in you would have liked (the Empire State Express). Interestingly, I grew up just a few miles from the addressee.




wt1, judging from the marking on the lower right, the cover was carried onboard when the train left Chicago on the 8th but didn't enter the mailstream until it was posted in Portland on the 10th.

Steve

[edited to correct date of departure]

Also, the stamp in the lower bottom corner explains that this was the Westbound train that left Chicago on June 8th headed for Portland, Oregon.

Great cover Nells.

Wow, nice, all those years of reading Model Railroader and mostly ignoring passenger trains. If I had seen this fellow before now I know I would have remembered it. Great cover, impressive view of the loco.

I just filled a box with Model Railroaders for storage yesterday! I don't have the heart to throw them away... who knows, I may need them some day! ;-)

Save them, save them! When I moved I had to throw out half of mine because I was foolish and stored them in the basement so some became moldy smelling. I put them at the curb and they disappeared fast enough though.

While this may have nothing to do with stamps, I can't help but post this image. The graphics is a great period piece showing the design of the modernistic Streamliner against all of the travel methods of by-gone days:



...they did issue a "lucky coin", too:



By the way, did you know there was a Railway Post Office designed into the front car?

That's a nice coin! I am not suprised there was an RPO on the UP's train. The Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad ended up with their streamliner, the Pioneer Zypher, the next year, and that trainset also had an RPO. But I just learned that the Boston & Maine's near twin of that train, the Flying Yankee, did not.

Great pieces of advertising. Wonderful lucky piece. I am really starting to get an interest into railroad items.