The covers of this brochure give equal time to Hoover Dam and Las Vegas, but in fact most of the brochure is about Hoover Dam, which was apparently considered a bigger attraction that Vegas in 1953. One side of the … Continue reading
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This booklet is pretty similar to the 1950 edition that was presented here a couple of years ago. The biggest difference appears to be that the front cover is actually on the front instead of the back as it was … Continue reading
Before World War II, most corporation annual reports were dry recitations of data, often using the same wording from year to year with only the numbers changing. After the war, new printing techniques combined with a desire to improve public … Continue reading
This booklet claims to be a brief history of the Union Pacific, but it is mostly a history of the construction of the railroad and the pounding of the famous gold spike. Sixteen pages deal with everything up to the … Continue reading
This timetable is not a lot different from the September, 1951 edition shown here two-and-one-half years ago. One addition to the later timetable is the City of St. Louis to Los Angeles. That train began operating in 1946, but only … Continue reading
We’ve seen a 1949 Sun Valley booklet that has almost nothing in common with this one. The difference, which is not indicated by any text on the covers, is that this one focuses on summer activities while the 1949 one … Continue reading
We’ve already seen a 1950 edition of this booklet. Two years later the booklet was barely changed, though photographs on pages 6 and 7 were replaced, perhaps to reflect changes in the train’s observation cars. Both editions note that the … Continue reading
If the color covers of these booklets advertising Union Pacific streamliners are meant to have local significance, it’s hard to imagine what this grey cover denotes unless it is the clouds and fog that are often found covering San Francisco … Continue reading
This booklet is parallel to yesterday’s for the City of Denver. Is the green cover supposed to be reminiscent of Oregon’s evergreen forests while the City of Denver red cover denotes Colorado’s red rocks? Or was UP just trying to … Continue reading
Here’s a post-war update to the inaugural booklet for Union Pacific’s Chicago-Denver train. This one has fewer pages and is slightly smaller in size and indicates both the similarities and differences between the 1936 and 1950 versions of this train. … Continue reading