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1934 Union Pacific Lucky Piece Token N-83811 Grades Choice Unc

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1934 Union Pacific Lucky Piece Token N-83811 Grades Choice Unc
1934 Union Pacific Lucky Piece Token N-83811 Grades Choice Unc. On February 12th 1934 during a trial run of Union Pacific’s streamliner M-10000 from the Pullman Manufacturing plant to Michigan City, Indiana press and newspapermen onboard the new streamline train were given a 1934 version of this lucky token. This newer promotional token had the year stamped on front and was attached to an aluminum foil covered menu with blue ribbon. It was used as an example of the lightweight aluminum alloy, just like the passenger car bodies they were riding in. After that trial run the M-10000 train went on a 12,625 mile 65 city tour of the United States. Throughout this 65 city tour visitors that boarded the train were given this 1934 version lucky piece to increase public awareness of the new type of metal alloy that’s used in the train. On top of that, the M-10000 train had 565,922 visitors walk through it between May 13th and July 12th 1934 at Chicago World’s Fair while it was on display. Union Pacific’s public relations department said they had given away about 1 million of these aluminum lucky tokens and estimated about 5 tons of aluminum used. On January 1st 1935 the M-10000 streamline train entered regular revenue service.