In 1952, Burlington inaugurated the daytime Kansas City Zephyr and overnight American Royal Zephyr, hoping that the inclusion of dome cars would help it to compete with Santa Fe’s six trains a day between Chicago and Kansas City. It didn’t work very well, as Santa Fe’s trains were faster, but Burlington issued this notepad to its ticket agents to help promote its trains.

Click image to download an 114-KB PDF of this note pad.

Most railroad note pads promoted freight services since freight almost always brought in more revenue. This simple notepad was probably issued about the same time as the Kansas City Zephyr pad.

Click image to download an 98-KB PDF of this note pad.

I acquired these notepads with a bunch of other Burlington items, some of which I am pretty sure were fake (as I’ll explain tomorrow). These pads, however, seem genuine.