In 1926, Canadian Pacific ordered four “cabin class” ships in which the best class was more affordable than first class but still high in quality. To distinguish these ships from the company’s Empress fleet, it called them Duchesses — i.e., … Continue reading
Nova Scotia’s Pictou Lodge was built in 1926 and quickly purchased by Canadian National, which operated it as a summer resort. The hotel still existed through 2022, but sadly it was “permanently closed” due to 2022 damage from Hurricane Fiona. … Continue reading
We’ve previously seen a booklet like this one dated 1940. Both booklets are summaries of the complete tour booklets, in this case the 1937 summer tours guide. Each page in these little booklets flips up to describe one or two … Continue reading
The Wisconsin Dells was in Milwaukee Road territory, not Santa Fe. But that didn’t stop Fred Harvey from taking over several resort facilities in 1954. These included the Hotel Crandall in the city of Wisconsin Dells, the Dells Boat Company, … Continue reading
“Built in the matter of an eighteenth century French chateau,” says this booklet, the Frontenac was the epitome of a chateau-style hotel. Originally built in 1893 but expanded with construction of the central tower in 1924, it had 567 rooms … Continue reading
The Montreal & Boston Air Line wasn’t a railroad but a route service by a consortium of connecting railroads. Most prominently mentioned are the Boston & Lowell Railroad, the Passumsic Railway, the South Eastern Railway, and the Portland & Ogdensburg. … Continue reading
This booklet pertains more to urban transit than to intercity passenger trains, but someone gave it to me with some other items, so I’ll include it here. Pittsburgh once had at least 17 different inclined planes — railcars that went … Continue reading
In 1939, the San Francisco Bay Area celebrated the completion of the Golden Gate and Bay Bridges with the Golden Gate Exposition. Yesterday’s booklet mentioned this on page 7 with a photo of an undeveloped Treasure Island (where the fair … Continue reading
Like the booklets from yesterday and the day before, we’ve seen this one before, only the previous one was marked for Union Pacific instead of Chicago and North Western System and was dated 1945 while this one is 1947. Click … Continue reading
Snow Dome is an 11,339-foot mountain in the Columbia Icefield between Jasper and Banff national parks. It is also supposed to be a triple-divide, as water flowing off its summit may reach the Arctic or Pacific oceans or Hudson Bay … Continue reading
