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In 2012, Union Pacific's 150th Anniversary Business Train with many official cars, including the Lone Star, visited the California State Railroad Museum. I was fortunate enough to tour the train with their Heritage Fleet Manager (Robert ?) as a reward for leading the restoration of UP Official Car 103, ex MP 10.

Several of the cars featured custom paintings of cowboys on horses or western themes commissioned by an artist of that genre. In one of the Lone Star's staterooms, there was a painting with two cowboys on horses. I took a photo of the painting, but don't know who the artist was. Can anyone help with this information?

Scott Inman
Sacramento, CA



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 10/15/18 14:01 by tighttrains.

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Specifically, who is the artist of this painting?

Scott Inman
Sacramento, CA

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Are there any more interior pictures of these cars?

Quite a change from SP business cars....

Spongebob-Trainguy Wrote:
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> Are there any more interior pictures of these
> cars?

I second this. If UP were nice, they would commission a book about the passenger cars, with history of each car, then photos.

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Here are additional photos of the interior of UP 101 Lone Star.  No luck so far on the artist's name.

Scott Inman
Sacramento, CA

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Last three of the Lone Star.

Scott Inman
Sacramento, CA

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Not a fan of the bleached wood stain.  That upholstery, well, where's the barf bag?

I'm thankful to see what the inside of these cars look like and would like to see more pictures.

mp51w Wrote:
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> Not a fan of the bleached wood stain.  That
> upholstery, well, where's the barf bag?                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                My personal taste runs to dark wood and polished brass, but I rode the Virgina City with Chuck Clegg and loved it!  I think the UP car is very well done by a sophisticated designer and I like the light modern expensive look.   

Could it have been Robert Dombrowski? He was responsible as I recall for the Espee fleet of business cars and I worked with him while at Amtrak for the 2000 DNC.
tighttrains Wrote:
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> In 2012, Union Pacific's 150th Anniversary
> Business Train with many official cars, including
> the Lone Star, visited the California State
> Railroad Museum. I was fortunate enough to tour
> the train with their Heritage Fleet Manager
> (Robert ?) as a reward for leading the restoration
> of UP Official Car 103, ex MP 10.
>
> Several of the cars featured custom paintings of
> cowboys on horses or western themes commissioned
> by an artist of that genre. In one of the Lone
> Star's staterooms, there was a painting with two
> cowboys on horses. I took a photo of the painting,
> but don't know who the artist was. Can anyone help
> with this information?

Phantom_of_Cajon Wrote:
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> Could it have been Robert Dombrowski? He was
> responsible as I recall for the Espee fleet of
> business cars and I worked with him while at
> Amtrak for the 2000 DNC.

Are you thinking of Robert Andrade?

Very Tacky.

GettingShort Wrote:
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> Very Tacky.

That's what we thought when we were building it, but whatever Trish Davidson wanted, Trish Davidson got.

Cool pics. I’m thinking the treadmills would be better replaced by lacing up the steel toes and putting some boots on the ROW.

No, I wasn't actually as Dombrowski was in charge of the Espee business cars and in 2000 after a meeting we talked about the Sunset in UP colors.