We mustache you a question! Want to learn about facial hair on the railroad?

Join us on September 16th at 5:30pm CDT at our next Club Car Conversation to take a look at mustaches on the railroad throughout time! From pencil to handlebar, each mustache tells a story that you might not expect. Register here!

Club Car Conversations are casual virtual chats about history, pop culture, and railroads. They are free and open to the public, just RSVP to receive the link to join, or to receive a recording that is available for 10 days!

Historian and author Dr. Alessandra La Rocca Link will be joining the UP Museum on September 25 to present her book ‘The Iron Horse in Indian Country: Native Americans and Railroads in the U.S. West’.

Dr. Link earned her Ph.D. in history from the University of Colorado Boulder. Her research has been supported by Southern Methodist University's Clements Center for Southwest Studies, the American Council of Learned Societies, and the Huntington and Newberry libraires. She has been teaching history and English at Louisville Collegiate School since 2021.

Dr. Link’s talk will begin at 6:30pm, but guests are encouraged to attend a book signing prior to the event from 5pm to 6pm at the UP Musuem.

These events are free and open to the public.Please RSVP here to save your seat!

On October 9th at 6:30pm, historian Daniel Faas will be speaking about his book, The Granger Railroads of Wisconsin: When Midwestern Farmers Fought Big Industry, at the Union Pacific Museum.

Faas explores one of the great political and economic movements of the nineteenth century, when a fraternal organization of Midwest farmers permanently changed the trajectory of American railroads. When rising shipping rates threatened their ability to get their crops to market, these small farmers banded together to form the National Grange of the Order of Patrons of Husbandry. Deftly handling the levers of power in their clash with robber barons, the organization’s pattern of regulation all but controlled the development of national rail policies for more than a century.

Faas's author talk is free and open to the public, just RSVP to save your seat!

Looking for some throwback recipes? Check out our new UP Commissary cook book! For more than a century, UP employees delivered high-quality meals and service to the public traveling on their iconic trains. This mid-20th century Dining Car Service Manual from the UP collection has been reproduced for you to enjoy! 

Get a behind-the-scenes look into what it took to deliver world-class service in a moving restaurant. Recreate some of your favorites or try something new! 

The Union Pacific Dining Car Cook Book and Service Instructions (replica edition) is available for purchase now!

Law and Order on the Railroad:Learn about the evolution of railroad law enforcement from the beginning of the railroad until today!

History Express FREE Tour: Saturdays starting at 1:30 p.m.

Experience a standing tour that explores the overview history of 150 plus years of the railroad. No reservation needed. We will meet in front of the business car on the first floor.

The museum is housed in a historic Carnegie Library building in Council Bluffs, Iowa.

Visitors can explore an extensive compilation of items from 150 years of our nation's western history, including artifacts, photographs, documents and equipment.

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