UP has pared its once-famous “City” passenger fleet down to a handful of trains and so March 4, 1965, finds westbound 106-112, the combined City of Portland-City of Denver, north of Brighton, less than 30 minutes from Denver Union Terminal. There is hardly enough business to sustain one Denver train, and Burlington’s Denver Zephyr is the clear choice between Chicago and the Mile-High City. UP E9A 958 will become Amtrak 431 in 1971.
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The Union Pacific fielded lengthy yellow domeliners that connected the Midwest with the Pacific Coast as well as secondary services that included mixed trains that lasted until Amtrak began.
