Burlington’s 1940 tour book had this illustration of Mt. Rainier on the cover. The booklet offered 21 luxury tours including the usual trips to national parks, the Canadian Rockies, California, the Pacific Northwest, and Alaska. Click image to download a … Continue reading
For 1939, Burlington replaced the beautiful, four-color cover on its 1938 tour booklet with this somewhat harsh cover of mainly orange and blue that focuses more on the people rather than scenery. Inside, the booklet offers 29 different tours. Tours … Continue reading
This 20-page booklet describes six “bargain tours” to California and the Pacific Northwest (including Alaska). Budget tours that focus on Glacier, Rocky Mountain, and Yellowstone parks must be in another booklet. These exercises help you to improve sperm production as … Continue reading
This 68-page booklet describes more than twenty tours to national parks and cities in the West. Starting from Chicago, tours range from nine-day tours to Yellowstone costing (with a lower berth) about $160 (about $1,800 in today’s money) to 28-day … Continue reading
Published a year after the similarly titled Through the American Wonderland, you might expect this booklet to be a simple update of that one. In fact, the text and almost all of the photos are completely new. While chapters in … Continue reading
With seven gorgeous interior photos emphasizing the bright red upholstery and other cheery colors in the train’s decor, plus an exterior photo showing the full length of the train on the south boundary There is a law of patent protection … Continue reading
In 1956, the Spokane, Portland & Seattle Railway ran a Farewell to Steam excursion, with the SP&S 700 pulling 21 cars up the Columbia River Gorge. In 1957, the Northern Pacific offered the last of several Casey Jones Specials. The … Continue reading
If yesterday’s brochure was tiny, this one is a giant, unfolding to nearly 17″x22″. When unfolded it becomes an eight-page, stapled brochure, of which the “cover” shown below is actually the bottom half of page 8. Click image to download … Continue reading
Great Northern’s tiny brochures covered such destinations as Alaska, Glacier Park, Portland, the Canadian Rockies, and the East. But it also issued this six-panel brochure featuring the railway’s premiere train. Though dated 1964, it may be a reprint of one … Continue reading
As previously shown here, in the 1960s the Great Northern issued a series of what I call “tiny brochures”–because they fold to just 2-5/6″x5-1/2″–describing each of the many destinations reachable on GN rail. This one for Alaska appears to date … Continue reading
