This Union Pacific excursion is departing Portland Union Station for a weekend round trip to Bend, Ore., but in your mind's eye it could be the famed "City of Portland" highballing for its run to Chicago.

E9s #951, 963 and 949 lead a train of classic UP passenger cars. The consist had come into Portland with 4-6-6-4 "Challenger" #3985.

The "City of Portland" was Union Pacific's first long-distance streamliner, beginning with the M-10001 in 1935 and ending with the coming of Amtrak in 1971.

Photographed by Thomas McCann, September 30, 1995.
Added to the photo archive by Thomas McCann, May 6, 2010.
Railroad: Union Pacific.

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