Since the Depression year of 1930, Train 17-18, the Portland Rose, has been one of Union Pacific’s classier operations, even boasting for a time its own individual china pattern (depicting, naturally, roses). But starting in the mid-1960s the consist, which once included an RPO, diner, lounge, chair cars, and sleepers, has been shrinking, and by October 9, 1968, as Train 18 leaves Denver on its long day’s journey to Kansas City, all that’s left are two express cars and two coaches. The Rose will hang on until Amtrak in 1971, then disappear despite occasional talk of a revival. The diesel up front, E8A 932, will survive to become Amtrak 328.
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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.
