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
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Despite having purchased $5 million worth of new or refurbished passenger cars since 1962, ridership dwindled on the Kansas City Southern, so this 1968 brochure announces that the railroad was discontinuing all passenger service. The brochure blamed the decline in … Continue reading
The Golden Gate Exposition ended in 1940, but the Burlington-Rio Grande-Western Pacific train named after it was so successful that the railroads kept it going. This attractive train booklet creatively uses just three colors of ink–blue, orange, and black–on most … Continue reading
Items from near the end of the Silver Age often betray a feeling of “How the mighty have fallen!” That’s especially true for this 44-page booklet advertising Burlington (and GN and NP) tours for 1969. Despite the Depression, Burlington Escorted … Continue reading
This booklet was passed out during “educational tours” for students who (judging from the photos) were in what we would today call middle school or junior high school. It describes the Burlington’s freight operations as well as passenger trains in … Continue reading
This menu has a date but doesn’t say what train used it. The steam locomotive on the cover suggests that it wasn’t a zephyr. Tiny print on this menu reads, “12/47,” which I presume is the date it was printed, … Continue reading
This menu is undated, but the front cover says it is for “The New Twin Zephyrs” while the back lists the name of each car in the “Train of the Gods” and the “Train of the Goddesses.” That suggests it … Continue reading
The Burlington Zephyr (later known as the Pioneer Zephyr) entered revenue service on November 11, 1934, on a route between Lincoln, Omaha, and Kansas City, and it remained on that route for most of its long life, being retired in … Continue reading
This 60-page booklet describes about two dozen dude ranches located near Cody, Wyoming. It also includes several pages on other attractions in the Cody area, including the Buffalo Bill Museum, the Cody Stampede (rodeo), and the Cody Road. There’s no … Continue reading
In August, 1927, someone on a Burlington Escorted Tour sent the following postcard from the Lake Hotel in Yellowstone to a friend in Chicago. “Will endeavor to tell you about this wonderfull Co. when I get back if language don’t … Continue reading