Santa Fe produced wall calendars from the early 1900s through 1993, and all of them after 1914 featured paintings of the Southwest or Southwest Indians by one of the Chicago or Taos painters cultivated by the railway. From the early … Continue reading
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In 1929, Burlington and Santa Fe teamed up with the Rio Grande and Western Pacific to offer escorted tours from Chicago to the West Coast. We’ve already seen the 20-page tour booklet for winter, 1929, which advertised 21-day tours leaving … Continue reading
We’ve seen this painting before when it was used on a 1950 menu for the Santa Fe’s Grand Canyon train. In this case, it was used on the El Capitan, and I interpret the date code at the bottom of … Continue reading
Louis Benton Akin (1868-1913) was born in Corvallis and and raised in Portland, Oregon and studied painting in New York. In 1903, the Santa Fe paid his way to Arizona so he could paint images of Hopi Indians to use … Continue reading
This is Santa Fe’s reprint of a pamphlet commemorating a 1905 trip from Los Angeles to Chicago in 44 hours and 54 minutes. At that time, the fastest regularly scheduled trains took about 68 hours to cover that distance, and … Continue reading
Here are some more Fred Harvey postcards from my collection. The first is from the linen era, meaning it was probably published in the 1930s, and shows the Spanish Peaks in south central Colorado. These mountains were visible from Santa … Continue reading
One of these menus was issued just two months before Amtrak took over, and the other is dated four months after Amtrak. Either the print order was placed before Santa Fe decided to join Amtrak or Santa Fe printed them … Continue reading
Dated January 10, 1971, this must have been one of the last menus before Amtrak took over. We’ve seen the cover before, in sepia tones, on a … Continue reading
This menu cover features a painting of “Autumn Aspen” by Fremont Ellis. Raised in Montana, Ellis had no formal art training but ended up spending most of his life painting in Santa Fe. The back cover of the menu misspelled … Continue reading
After being shrunk down to six pages in the July, 1968 timetable, this 1969 timetable is back up to the equivalent of eight pages. But all of the train schedules fit on just three pages. Nearly one-and-a-half pages are devoted … Continue reading