SP Streamliner-Era Postcards

These postcards all show Southern Pacific streamlined trains. None appear to have been issued by SP, but most were probably issued with the railroad’s cooperation to be sold at newstands in various SP train stations.

Click any image to download a PDF of that postcard.

Although this card says it was published by Western Publishing & Novelty, it also says it is a C-T Colortone. CurtTeich was probably the printer while Western Novelty was the distributor. It has a number on the front, 8A-B3002, and the “8A” indicates it was published in 1938.

Another CurtTeich card with enough information about the train on the back to indicate it was published for railroad publicity purposes. The date code, 9A, indicates it was released in 1939.

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This card says it is based on a Union Pacific photo, but the train is on Southern Pacific tracks over Great Salt Lake. It is also a CurtTeich card, and the date code, 3B, indicates it was published in 1943.

The back of this card says “Lithography by Stecher-Traung.” However, I don’t consider this a lithograph; instead, it is a four-color photo. Stecher-Traung issued many of the Shasta Daylightpostcards that have previously been shown here, and clearly did so on behalf of Southern Pacific.

This card was published by Smith News Company of San Francisco. It is clearly contemporaneous with the train, but is such a poor photo of the train that I suspect it was issued without SP support.


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