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This has to be one of the lamest railroad brochures I have ever seen. The passive opening headline, “Concerning the new advantages. . .,” absolutely would not inspire me to open it. Why is it about “train 14” and not … Continue reading
Category Archives: Pacific Limited
One of the many Southern Pacific posters that used paintings by California artist Maurice Logan centered around an image of Mission Santa Barbara. The SP used this image, which was painted around 1930, in several other places as well. First … Continue reading
This piece of on-board stationery shows that the Pacific Limited advertised in yesterday’s brochure was an old train even in 1940. The stationery has logos for the Panama-Pacific Exposition, held in San Francisco in 1915 to celebrate the 1914 opening … Continue reading
This 1940 brochure notes that the Pacific Limited was “completely air conditioned,” including both coaches and Pullmans. The Pacific Limited was a distinctly secondary train on the Chicago-San Francisco route, a cut above the Challenger but not as luxurious as … Continue reading