This undated issue of Southern Pacific’s West bulletin to travel agents features the “new San Joaquin Daylight.” Since that train was inaugurated on July 4, 1941, this must have been published that summer. Click image to download a 4.4-MB PDF … Continue reading
Tag Archives: Travel brochure
Dam construction created lots of business for railroads, so Southern Pacific was happy to hype Shasta Dam, whose construction began in 1937 and continued through 1944. It is clearly incomplete in these photos, which were probably taken in around 1940 … Continue reading
This issue of West isn’t dated, but it was published in time to advertise the December 15 inauguration of the streamlined Arizona Limited, which would place it near the end of 1940. To promote the train, the periodical advertises wintertime … Continue reading
This issue of Southern Pacific’s West contains almost no clue about when it was published. I’ve so far identified eighteen different issues of this publication, four of which appear to be from 1940, six from 1941, and four from 1942. … Continue reading
The main railroad exhibit at the 1939 New York World’s Fair was “Railroads on Parade,” a rehash of similar shows at the 1927 Baltimore & Ohio Centennial pageant and the 1933-1934 Chicago Century of Progress exposition. As a side show, … Continue reading
Except for the name of the railroad, this could be one of Union Pacific’s tour brochures similar to those shown here a couple of months ago. Unlike UP, Rock Island only went as far west as Colorado, so this brochure … Continue reading
Despite the title of this brochure, it isn’t a guide to New York City but a guide to getting to and from the city on the Baltimore & Ohio rather than some other railroad. The B&O didn’t go into New … Continue reading
By the early 1960s, CN appeared to be relying primarily on brochures, not booklets, to advertise Jasper Park. True, we’ve seen this booklet from 1964, but it is not only much smaller than the Jasper booklets from the 1920s through … Continue reading
We’ve seen an 11″x8-1/2″ 36-page booklet about Jasper from 1956. This fold-out brochure has the equivalent of eight pages in the typical railroad 8″x9″ format, though actually they are 7-1/2″x9-1/2″. Other than a few photos, the two don’t have a … Continue reading
This brochure — not a booklet — encouraged people to return to Jasper after the four years of travel restrictions imposed by the war. In addition to the two color photos on the cover, the brochure includes ten black-and-white photos … Continue reading