These Union Pacific early gas streamliners are all about the future. Like the early Zephyrs, they represent a style and character that would disappear in the postwar years.

Grills and chrome and steel and rivets and swooshy stripes. Like something from a Buck Rogers movie.

They just look fast.

And they were fast. These early UP streamliners could reach speeds of 110 mph.

That's 85 tons of hardware rocketing along at a buck ten, while a nice man in a white jacket brings a beverage and a sandwich right to your lushly upholstered chair.

Buck Rogers never had it so good.