After the pastels used on the covers of the previous several tour books, the bright orange and purple on the 1937 edition is startling, but it must have been highly visible on travel agency shelves. The number of tours is … Continue reading
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Using the fourth set of streamlined Zephyr equipment made for the Burlington, this train was inaugurated in October, 1935 between St. Louis and Burlington, where it connected with the Aristocrat. In keeping with the theme, the power car was named … Continue reading
In November, 1934, Burlington put the first Diesel-powered streamliner to work between Kansas City and Lincoln. With the addition of several more zephyrs in 1935, the railroad renamed the original the Pioneer Zephyr in November, 1936. So this menu card … Continue reading
I haven’t seen a 1933 escorted tour booklet yet, but we know from the 1934 edition that the format was reduced (again) to 6″x9″, though the page count remained the same at 68 pages (including covers). The 1935 version uses … Continue reading
Here we have the same cover as the 1930 booklet sans yellow background color. It is also the same as 1932 except the grey stripes are brown in the latter year. Click image to download a 39.5-MB PDF of this … Continue reading
We’ve seen this cover before, with slightly different colors, on the 1932 booklet, but it is very different from the 1929 version. The page count is the same as the 1929 edition, but the size of the booklet has grown … Continue reading
Burlington Escorted Tours published a 68-page booklet (including covers) for 1929, but only two of those pages dealt with Alaska. The booklet advised people interesting in going to that territory to “Ask for special Alaska booklet giving full details and … Continue reading
This little booklet summarized the five escorted tours that were described in detail in yesterday’s booklet. This booklet has an unusual design and the PDF is best viewed in two-page mode. The front cover is 6 inches wide by 5 … Continue reading
We’ve previously seen this cover on a 1929 edition of the Burlington Escorted Tours booklet. While this one is 48 pages and includes half-tone photos, the 1929 version was expanded to 68 pages and some of the photos were colorized. … Continue reading
“By all means, if you can spare the time, make your minimum” tour of Yellowstone last “twice five days, two weeks would be better, a month would be ideal,” urges this 1917 booklet. The booklet then goes on to describe … Continue reading