These blotters from the Dale Hastin collection were all published after World War II, but probably later than yesterday’s blotters. Click any blotter image to download a PDF of that blotter. Click other images for a larger view of that … Continue reading
These blotters from the Dale Hastin collection were all published shortly after World War II. Click any blotter image to download a PDF of that blotter. Click other images for a larger view of that image. The PDFs are about … Continue reading
These blotters from the Dale Hastin collection all come from the World War II years. Click any image to download a PDF of that blotter. The PDFs are about 0.3 to 0.6 megabytes in size. Given the subject matter, this … Continue reading
These blotters from the Dale Hastin collection all seem to predate World War II. Click any image to download a PDF of that blotter. The PDFs are about 0.3 to 0.6 megabytes in size. This blotter advertising the National Limited … Continue reading
B&O had quite a few passenger trains in 1948: five daily trains from New York to Chicago (though, somehow, only four from Chicago to New York), three each way between New York and St. Louis, as well as through trains … Continue reading
After collecting, restoring, and reproducing numerous old locomotives and rail cars for the railroad’s 1927 centennial, and then showing off many of the items in that collection at various fairs in the 1930s and 1940s, the B&O decided to open … Continue reading
This 1936 menu exhorts passengers to “Go West” via the Baltimore & Ohio. I’m not sure what waterfall is pictured on the cover, but it may be in Glacier National Park. The back cover pictures scenes from Glacier, Yellowstone, and … Continue reading
This is a post-war update of yesterday’s 1931 along-the-way booklet. Whereas yesterday’s covered the route from New York to St. Louis, this one covers the “one-thousand-mile journey” from New York to Chicago by “Diesel-Electric Streamliner.” Click image to download a … Continue reading
The B&O published various versions of this little booklet for many years. This particular edition says “New York-St. Louis,” implying that a different version came out for New York to Chicago. The 1931 date indicates that it was before air … Continue reading
Chicago held its Century of Progress Fair, celebrating its first century of existence, just six years after the B&O celebrated its own centennial. This made it easy for B&O to send to the Chicago fair the “choicest historical” (and pseudo-historical–some … Continue reading
