Nostalgia & History > Green River WY 1959 Back Again

My father marked his slide of the E-unit passenger train as the City of San Francisco. I'm not sure-as usual any comments or suggestions are welcome. Have a great weekend and thanks for for looking.

J. Dean Sheldrake

Silverton, OR

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plus the pedestrian bridge where my my grandmother took a black and white photo of 4019 leaving town a year or or two earlier, I will need to find that negative

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Welcome back! Always some fine history on your shots!

During a long cross country rowing trip to Youth Nationals in Cincinnati in 2006 with our team trailer (full of expensive racing shells), I just had to get off I-80 and see this place. I actually found a safe place to park the trailer, then walked onto that bridge and enjoyed UP glory for about an hour. It was great. Wonderful part of America.

Afterwards, everyone wanted to know "what are those skinny things on your trailer? Missiles?" Yes, some people thought they were missiles.

Looks like a dome in the first pic?
If so, probably not the CoSF.

Looks like train #10, the City of St. Louis. Note that the 3rd unit is a F unit. I have shot those E-E-F sets of power on #9 & #10. wag216

In 1959 the CoSF was due into Green River
at 1250 or 1255 MST, so if it's the one
in the first pic it must be
18-20 hours late.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but I think the COSF did not have a dome car,except when SP added one of those SP built 3/4 domes at Ogden for the rest of the trip to Oakland.

Operating crews on the old UP The City of San Fran, were based out of Cheyenne, WY and worked between Cheyenne and Green River (conductors and brakemen). Rawlins, WY passenger enginemen worked between Rawlins and Green River. The Salt Lake City operating crews worked between Ogden, UT and Green River.

wag216 Wrote:
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> Looks like train #10, the City of St. Louis. Note
> that the 3rd unit is a F unit. I have shot those
> E-E-F sets of power on #9 & #10. wag216

The numberboard appears to be displaying "10"....the City of St. Louis. Also, there does appear to be a dome coach about six cars back, which would disqualify the City of San Francisco. But the third unit sure looks like an E8B or E9B.

Dave