Here is a 1931 version of Southern Pacific’s four-great-routes booklets but with a twist: instead of advertising four routes from the East to California, this one suggests four routes from California to the East. Inside, the usual descriptions of each of the routes — four pages for the Sunset Route and two pages each for the Overland, Golden State, and Shasta routes — needed only a little rewriting to make them apply to Californians rather than easterners.
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The cover shown above (which is the back cover) is a Maurice Logan painting whose inset might show what in 1931 would have been the latest 4-8-4 locomotive, which Southern Pacific added to its roster in 1930. However, the wheels aren’t shown and it could be a 4-8-2, which dated back to 1923 and didn’t look a lot different from early SP 4-8-4s.
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Of those, only the Woolworth and Met Life towers were built before 1930, which makes me think Logan painted this between 1923 and 1930 and SP used it despite the fact that its skyline looks almost medieval compared to how it really looked when the booklet was published. It’s possible that SP marketing staff didn’t know the difference or think that Californians would know the difference.
A variation of this cover was used on a poster that I presented here a few years ago. At the time, I guessed that the poster was from the early 1920s because its style matched that of other posters from that time period. That’s pretty thin evidence, but I’d still argue that he did the painting well before 1930.
