Demand for travel to Europe declined in the winter, and apparently that was especially true for the first-class travel provided by Canadian Pacific empresses. CP continued to serve wintertime Canada-England travelers with its cabin-class ships, while in 1924 it began … Continue reading
After the Great War, Canadian Pacific Ocean Services’ first priority was to add to its empress fleet in Atlantic service. First, it renamed the Alsatian, a ship of its recently acquired Allan Line, the Empress of France. The largest of … Continue reading
Long before their title to the Willamette Valley and Cascade Mountain Wagon Road land grant was secure, the farmers and livestock owners who founded the company put the road and land up for sale. In 1871, they agreed to sell … Continue reading
This booklet is 12 pages longer than yesterday’s, and most of it is spent lauding the virtues of tropical beaches, warm ocean waters, and fabulous resorts. The booklet includes several photos of streamlined trains but doesn’t list any names of … Continue reading
The stunning cover of this booklet (which was actually on the back cover, as was yesterday’s and in fact the three booklets before that) belies the fact that this is merely an update of yesterday’s booklet. However, it has been … Continue reading
Until the Seaboard reached West Palm Beach and Miami, the Florida East Coast was the only railroad to serve that side of the state. After the Seaboard’s invasion, the FEC advertised that it was “the only double-track route through Florida” … Continue reading
Southern responded to the intense competition with the ACL and Seaboard by introducing the Palm Limited, between New York and Jacksonville/St. Augustine, on January 11, 1904. This was the first truly evocative name in the Florida corridor. Though competitively equipped, … Continue reading
Henry Flagler, a billionaire partner of John D. Rockefeller, visited St. Augustine, Florida in 1883 and was at once captivated by its beauty and discouraged by the poor quality of its hotels and transportation facilities. So he decided to build … Continue reading
In the turn-of-the-20th-century corridors we’ve examined to date — New York-Chicago, Chicago-Los Angeles, Chicago-Seattle, and Chicago-Twin Cities — a large share of the passengers were traveling for business. In the Florida corridor, however, most travel was for pleasure. This 1906 … Continue reading
We’ve previously seen a 1932 booklet with the same covers as this one. However, the interiors are quite different. While some of the text is in both booklets, it has been extensively rewritten. While some photos are in both booklets, … Continue reading
