Many people have heard of the Beartooth Highway, advertised by the Northern Pacific as the Red Lodge High Road, which connects Red Lodge with Cooke City and the northeast entrance to Yellowstone. Roving reporter Charles Kuralt called it “the most … Continue reading
Between 1959 and 1964, Great Northern put out a series of what I call tiny brochures because they folded up into about the size of a postcard. I’ve collected 21 of them which I am pretty sure is all of … Continue reading
Each year from at least 1926 to 1941, GN and its partner railroads, NP and Burlington, produced a thick booklet, such as this one from 1937, describing escorted tours to destinations along their lines. This is a small brochure from … Continue reading
We’ve seen a booklet with the same cover as this one from 1950. This one is dated 1955. For the first 33 pages, there are almost no differences between the two. Even the graphic of a steam-powered passenger train on … Continue reading
We’ve seen booklets with this cover before from 1948 and 1962. This one is from the middle of that range, 1955. The text and graphics in all three are similar, but many of the photos were changed over the years. … Continue reading
Here is one of Union Pacific’s 8-1/2″x11″ brochures advertising various destinations. We’ve previously seen a 1941 brochure for the Pacific Northwest, a 1953 brochure also for the Pacific Northwest, as well as ones for Colorado from 1953, Yellowstone from 1954, … Continue reading
We’ve seen 8-1/2″x11″ brochures like this one before, including this 1954 brochure about southern Utah parks. The earliest one we’ve seen is this 1941 brochure about the Pacific Northwest. Today’s, however, is even earlier than that, being dated 4-25-40. Click … Continue reading
In the early 1930s, UP issued a couple of booklets called Western Wonderlands. We’ve also seen a 1938 brochure with the same title. The 1938 brochure didn’t have color photos, but it had orange and blue highlights on one side … Continue reading
We’ve previously seen these 11″x17″ sheets folded into a four-page 8-1/2″x11″ brochure, including one for the Pacific Northwest. Union Pacific also made them for Colorado, Yellowstone, and southern Utah parks. But these were all dated 1953 or 1954, while today’s … Continue reading
This issue of West encourages people to take the “Redwood Empire Tour” via SP subsidiary Northwestern Pacific overnight from San Francisco to Eureka, then Pacific Greyhound (which was partly owned by SP) from Eureka through the redwoods to Grants Pass, … Continue reading
