This January-February, 1963 newsletter is supposed to be the first issue of volume 34, meaning it was first published in the 1920s. It is evidently aimed at travel agents as all of the stories relate to passenger travel, tourist destinations, and ticket sales.
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A lead story reports that 1962 saw NP’s passenger revenue rise for the fourth straight year, prompted by the Seattle World’s Fair and increased long-distance travel. The average trip taken by an NP passenger rose from 502 miles in 1961 to 559 miles in 1962. Of course, that could be partly because of the discontinuance of short-haul trains, but it followed a trend that began in the 1920s.
The newsletter also shows off NP’s 1963 calendar, which featured a painting of the railway’s Gold Spike ceremony which had taken place 80 years before. For the release of the calendar, the railway found a 96-year-old man who had been at the ceremony when he worked as a newsboy on the Utah Northern Railroad, a narrow-gauge railway that connected Ogden with Butte.