The map in this brochure shows the location of roughly 750 forts, camps, fields, bases, and stations in the then-48 states. The other side of the brochure lists all of those installations by name along with the nearest train station. This might have been useful to military personnel wanting to know where they were going and even more to families wanting to know where their sons were training or stationed.

Click image to download a 13.0-MB PDF of this brochure, which is from the David Rumsey Map Collection.

“Business and vacation travel have not been encouraged, as our passenger trains now have a most important and much greater task to perform,” says the brochure. “Hundreds of thousands of men and women in Uncle Sam’s service must be trans­ported.” The Union Pacific, the brochure vows, is “keeping ’em rolling for Victory!”