“The Little Nugget” car was built in 1937 by the Pullman-Standard Car Manufacturing Company. It was part of the Union Pacific Railroad’s NEW passenger train – The Streamliner City of Los Angeles. This new train represented the zenith in modern train design and technology. “The Little Nugget” car was one of the most unique and lavishly appointed railroad cars of all time. It served as the club-lounge for the train’s first class Pullman passengers. The luxury train was host to a veritable Who’s Who of international businessmen and Hollywood entertainment elite. Celebrities like George Burns, Bob Hope, and Cecil B. DeMille were regular clients in those days before commercial air travel became popular. First-Class trains like the City of Los Angeles, and the rival Super Chief of the Santa Fe Railway, were the most comfortable, stylish, and fastest ways to travel between coasts. In 1937, these two famous “extra fare” streamliners, pulled by innovative new diesel locomotives, made the trip from Chicago to Los Angeles in only 39-3/4 hours; a full day faster than standard trains of the time.