Today’s Santa Fe note pad has an image of a war bonneted passenger train and a freight locomotive. I could be wrong, but the loco on the right looks a lot like the GP-35 in the photo below. If so, … Continue reading
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In the drawing on this note pad, the freight locomotive on the right is distinguished from the passenger locomotive by the lack of a war bonnet pinstripe around the locomotive’s front porthole. The presence of the oval Santa Fe logo … Continue reading
Santa Fe’s spin on the “ship-and-travel” theme adds “all the way,” referring of course to the fact that Santa Fe was the only railroad connecting Chicago with California. The war bonneted locomotive on the left represented travel while the FT … Continue reading
This 1939 brochure briefly mentions the Golden Gate, a Santa Fe streamlined train that connected Oakland with Bakersfield (with continuing bus service to Los Angeles), which had entered service the year before. It also briefly mentions the Golden Gate International … Continue reading
Although the Santa Fe had special stationery for its premiere trains such as the Super Chief and even secondary trains such as the Kansas City-Galveston Ranger, it must have used this somewhat generic stationery for some of its lesser trains. … Continue reading
This stationery doesn’t have a train name, but the font makes it plain that it is for a pre-war heavyweight train. Assuming that the railway’s premiere trains such as the Chief and California Limited had their own stationery, this stationery … Continue reading
This is another dinner menu from the Santa Fe Grand Canyon whose interior is identical to yesterday’s Monument Valley menu and last month’s Grand Canyon menu. The cover painting is by Gerard Curtis Delano, an eastern artist who moved to … Continue reading
Monument Valley, which is located on the Navajo Indian Reservation, was made famous by John Ford westerns in the 1930s. So many Santa Fe passengers who had never actually been to the valley probably still recognized the cover of this … Continue reading
While Greyhound was one company that had an interest in, and eventually absorbed, a number of other companies operating under the Greyhound name, Trailways was never more than a loose association of separate companies that attempted to coordinate their schedules … Continue reading
Santa Fe inaugurated the Grand Canyon Limited in 1929. Though the train received some streamlined cars in 1947, it continued to operate with a mixture of streamlined and heavyweight cars through most of its life. As of 1950, when this … Continue reading