Travelers aboard the City of Los Angeles in the 1960's could enjoy the best of both worlds, whether relaxing in style aboard luxurious Pullman sleepers and lingering over dinner in the signature Dome-Diner or its lower level “Gold Room,” or taking advantage of lower priced coach fares and tasty meals served quickly in the Café-Lounge.

Walthers Proto brings you 10 limited edition cars to model this great train, and now there are two ways to customize your consists for operation or display. For the first time ever, individual cars with a factory printed name or number as appropriate are available from the 920-9540 series. Or model any car in the City of Los Angeles fleet with the standard cars from the 920-9530 series, which include decals with the full selection of names and numbers used on the prototypes.

Equipped with five bedrooms, two compartments and two drawing rooms, UP ordered just three of these cars from Pullman-Standard (P-S), built to Plan #4200 as lot #6960 which arrived in May 1956. While Union Pacific originally wanted to name them for famous dams, Pullman preferred using a common name to identify cars with identical interior arrangements, and suggested they be part of their existing Ocean series. UP agreed and the names were changed prior to delivery and assignment to the City of Los Angeles. Highly detailed inside and out, this WalthersProto model features:

• Prototypically accurate window tinting & black gaskets as appropriate
• Factory installed stainless steel grab irons
• Modeler installed extended drawbars for use on 22" radius curves included
• Turned metal wheelsets and correct trucks with built-in electrical contacts
• Fully assembled and finished in authentic colors
• Proto MAX metal knuckle couplers

PLEASE NOTE: As these cars are the correct prototype length and feature full underbody detail to match the prototypes, a minimum 24" radius is recommended for operation.

March 1964 #103 Westbound Omaha-Los Angeles

• E8A-B, E9B, E8A
• Storage Mail
• Storage Mail
• Railway Post Office - Storage Mail
• Storage Mail
• Dome-Coach
• Coach
• Coach
• Lunch Counter Diner-Lounge
• Coach
• Coach
• Coach
• 4-4-2 Sleeper (UP)
• 10-6 Sleeper (SP)
• 10-6 Sleeper (SP)
• 11 Double-Bedroom Placid Sleeper
• Dome-Diner
• Dome-Lounge
• 5-2-2 Ocean Sleeper
• 10-6 Pacific Sleeper
• Baggage-Dormitory Heater Car (winter service)

December 1964 #103 Westbound Omaha-Los Angeles

• E9A-E9B-E8A
• Storage Mail - Express
• Storage Mail
• Storage Mail - Express
• Baggage-Dormitory
• Dome-Coach
• Coach
• Coach
• Lunch Counter Diner-Lounge
• Coach
• Coach
• Coach
• Coach
• 10-6 Pacific Sleeper
• Dome-Diner
• Dome-Lounge
• 11 Double-Bedroom Placid Sleeper
• 10-6 Pacific Sleeper
• 10-6 Pacific Sleeper
• 6-6-4 Sleeper (UP)

June 30, 1968 #104 Eastbound Omaha-Chicago

• MILW F7
• MILW E9B
• MILW E9A
• Storage Mail-Express
• Baggage-Dormitory
• Dome-Coach
• Coach
• Coach
• Coach
• Lunch Counter Diner-Lounge
• 5-2-2 Ocean Sleeper
• Dome-Diner
• Dome-Lounge
• 11 Double-Bedroom Placid Sleeper
• 11 Bedroom Sleeper (UP)
• 10-6 Pacific Sleeper
• 10-6 Pacific Sleeper

July 1969 First #103 Westbound (sleepers)

• E9A-E8B-E8B
• Storage Mail
• Storage Mail
• Storage Mail
• Baggage-Dormitory
• 10-6 Pacific Sleeper
• 10-6 Pacific Sleeper
• 10-6 Pacific Sleeper
• 11 Double-Bedroom Sleeper (UP)
• 11 Double-Bedroom Sleeper (UP)
• Dome-Diner
• Dome-Lounge
• 5-2-2 Ocean Sleeper
• 11 Double-Bedroom Placid Sleeper
• 10-6 Pacific Sleeper
• 10-6 Pacific Sleeper
• 10-6 Sleeper (UP)
• 10-6 Sleeper (UP)

Second #103 (coaches)

• E9A-E8B-E9B
• Baggage-Dormitory
• Dome-Coach
• Coach
• Coach
• Coach
• Lunch Counter Diner-Lounge
• Dining Car
• Coach
• Coach
• Coach
• Coach
• Coach
• Coach

March1971 #103 Westbound Omaha - Los Angeles

• E9A-E9B
• Baggage-Express
• Coach
• Dome-Coach
• Coach
• Dome-Lounge
• Diner
• 6-6-4 Sleeper (UP)
• 10-6 Pacific Sleeper