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This book is a lot like yesterday’s except that it has been cut from 32 to 24 pages and, like a 1931 booklet presented here a few days ago, is for travel east from California rather than to California. The … Continue reading
Category Archives: Southern Pacific
The first page of this booklet explains the Southern Pacific’s four-great-routes bargain: Instead of going to Los Angeles or San Francisco on one route and back on the same route, go to one, then take the train to the other, … Continue reading
In keeping with its “four great routes” marketing theme, the Southern Pacific argued that the way to see the Northwest was to take one of its routes in one direction or another. SP only approached the Northwest from the south, … Continue reading
Here is a 1931 version of Southern Pacific’s four-great-routes booklets but with a twist: instead of advertising four routes from the East to California, this one suggests four routes from California to the East. Inside, the usual descriptions of each … Continue reading
This booklet 34 possible rail tours around the western United States (including a few to Mexico), most of which start at Chicago, New Orleans, or St. Louis. Actually, there are many more than 34 as most of the tours come … Continue reading
This cover painting by Maurice Logan also appeared on a 16-page, 1928 booklet titled “California for the Tourist.” This brochure has the equivalent of four pages and is aimed at southern Californians thinking of traveling to the San Francisco Bay … Continue reading
As previously noted here, the San Francisco Overland Limited was one of several Chicago-California trains that were completely re-equipped and put on 63- rather than 68-hour schedules in November, 1926. Issued just two months later, this brochure advertises this new … Continue reading
Like the Shasta Route wayside notes presented here yesterday and the day before, these two booklets were issued just a couple of years apart in 1922 and 1924. Unlike the Shasta booklets, these two are nearly identical, other than the … Continue reading
This booklet was issued just three years after the one presented yesterday, but there are enough differences between the two that I felt this one deserved its own day. Quite a few of the photos have been updated, and the … Continue reading
We’ve previously seen a 12-page booklet from 1950 describing sights along the Southern Pacific’s Shasta Route. This one is from three decades earlier and fills 16 pages. Unlike the later booklet, this one includes more than 80 photos which, though … Continue reading