Missouri Pacific: Best Way West to California

By 1927, when Missouri Pacific published this booklet, it had lost control of the Rio Grande and Western Pacific, so those railroads aren’t specifically mentioned here. The map in back, however, emphasizes them over the Union Pacific and Southern Pacific alternatives.

Click image to download a 24.4-MB PDF of this 52-page booklet (including fold-out map).

Unlike yesterday’s 1909 booklet, this one doesn’t use multi-colored graphics on the interior pages. Instead, they are illustrated solely by black-and-white photos, but the railroad paid a little extra to have orange lines set off the tops and bottoms of each page.


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