The Unified System Division of the Brotherhood of Maintenance of Way Employes is now a Division of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters. In October 2004, the rank and file members of the Brotherhood of Maintenance of Way Employes voted by a 76% majority to join the Teamsters Rail Conference. In doing so, the Teamsters Union now represents 42 percent of the unionized rail employees in the United States..
In October 2006 the Union Pacific System Division and the Chicago & North Western System Federation voted to merge. The Unified System Division was created and was the largest System within the BMWED.
The Unified System Division covers the territories of the Original Union Pacific Railroad, Chicago & North Western Railroad, Belt Railway of Chicago, Escanaba & Lake Superior Railroad, Portland Terminal Railroad, Nortrak, as well as some of the trackage gained through mergers with other Railroads. Its goal is to maintain open communication between the members and the full-time officers of this organization.
The City of Los Angeles was a streamlined passenger train jointly operated by the Chicago and North Western Railway and the Union Pacific Railroad. The service ran between Chicago, Illinois and Los Angeles, California.
This train was the top-of-the-line for UP, who marketed it as a direct competitor to the Super Chief, a streamlined passenger train operated by the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway, and the Golden State, a streamlined passenger train jointly operated by the Rock Island and Southern Pacific railroads. As with the City of Los Angeles, many of the train's cars bore the names of locales in and around its namesake city.
CNW / UP used one of only two EMD E2 locomotives ever built as motive power for the train beginning in 1937. The UP scored a public relations coup in the mid-1950s when the City of Los Angeles was prominently featured in two consecutive episodes of the then popular television series I Love Lucy. In 1955 the Milwaukee Road assumed the service, replacing the Chicago and Northwestern between Chicago and Omaha. In a cost-cutting move, the City of Los Angeles was combined with the City of San Francisco in 1960.
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