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These cards are blank on the back, so aren’t meant to be used postally. But they are the same dimensions as a standard postcard. Click image to download a PDF of this card. The Texas Zephyr tells passengers they can … Continue reading
Category Archives: Texas Zephyr
Here’s a 1966 dinner menu that might have been used on the same train as yesterday’s lunch menu. Unlike the lunch menu, this is a folder but made of the same glossy paper stock. Click image to download a 1.3-MB … Continue reading
Here’s a Texas Zephyr lunch menu from 1966, the last year the train was in operation. The menu is only a card instead of a folder, reflecting declining patronage, and it is made of glossy paper, which sounds fancy but … Continue reading
This Burlington brochure encourages people to take the Texas Zephyr and connecting Sam Houston Zephyr to “Our American Riviera,” meaning the Gulf Coast. The brochure describes Brownsville, Corpus Christi, Galveston, Houston, New Orleans, and San Antonio, even though none of … Continue reading
At some point after the war, the Burlington adopted a simpler stationery pattern than the Zephyrus stationery used on the pre-war zephyrs. Here is the Texas Zephyr version of that stationery. These cipla tadalafil 10mg types of allergies can be … Continue reading
When the Burlington replaced the original Denver Zephyr with the vista-dome version, it transferred the old Denver Zephyr train to the Texas Zephyr route. The 1936 DZ was actually older than the 2937 TZ coaches and 2940 observation car, but … Continue reading
Here’s a piece of on-board stationery from the original Texas Zephyr featuring Zephyrus, the god of the west wind, and a shovel-nosed, articulated Zephyr train. The Texas Zephyr was one of the first Burlington zephyrs to use neither a shovel-nosed … Continue reading
On August 22, 1940, Burlington began running the Texas Zephyr between Denver and Dallas. The route was a strange offshoot for the Burlington, which was mainly a Midwestern railroad, and went over Burlington subsidiaries Colorado & Southern and Fort Worth … Continue reading