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The is the fourth copy of this title in my collection, each issued about ten years apart. This one uses many of the same photos as the 1936 edition, but they are in color. Click image to download a 36.0-MB … Continue reading
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This 1941 menu is one of a series menus with pastel-colored paintings issued by the Rio Grande in the late 1930s. We’ve previously seen such menus for Glenwood Springs, Garden of the Gods/Pikes Peak, and Mesa Verde, among others. Click … Continue reading
Although the cover looks the same as earlier editions, this edition of this venerable title has given up the construction paper format and all interior pages are printed on white paper. It also uses black-and-white photos with some green tones, … Continue reading
Here’s a later version of the booklet presented here a couple of days ago. Unlike the previous one, this one doesn’t have a date, but it does have a different cover photo showing locomotive number 1607. This is one of … Continue reading
Although this booklet, like yesterday’s, was published by Smith-Brooks, it has a completely different format. Instead of colorized photos printed on white paper and glued onto black construction paper, this one consists of photos printed directly on the white paper … Continue reading
This 1917 booklet is made of the same materials as yesterday’s booklet, but was printed by a different company, Smith-Brooks. In addition to the different title, all of the photos are different, though some only slightly, probably because of this … Continue reading
This is one of many picture books published by various companies to be sold on board Denver & Rio Grande trains (and presumably in D&RG stations as well). This one happens to be dated 1906 (before the D&RG became the … Continue reading
One more menu from November, 1947 shows Salt Lake City’s Temple Square on the cover. The back cover gushes about Brigham Young’s wisdom and foresight in leading the Latter Day Saints to Salt Lake a century before the menu was … Continue reading
At 12,965 feet (the menu says 12,863 but the estimates must have been revised), Mount Sopris is one of Colorado’s shorter mountains. I may be wrong, but I don’t think it was visible from any Rio Grande train. Click image … Continue reading
Ruby Canyon isn’t as spectacular as Glenwood, Gore, and some of the other canyons followed by the Rio Grande Railroad, but it is the first interesting scenery eastbound passengers see on entering Colorado. The back of this menu has lengthy … Continue reading