This booklet should really be called “Western Oregon Outdoors,” as it focuses on those parts of Oregon that can be seen in a short drive from Southern Pacific tracks. It even opens by describing Oregon as “a land of forest … Continue reading
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In 1892, the Santa Fe Railway agreed to pay the expenses of Thomas Moran, famed painter of Yellowstone, to the Grand Canyon provided the railway would be allowed to choose a painting to use in its advertising. This began the … Continue reading
When Southern Pacific built across southern Arizona in 1880, it went through Tuscon, not Phoenix. At the time, Tucson, with more than 7,000 people, was by far Arizona’s largest city, while Phoenix was a comparative village of 1,700 people. Click … Continue reading
We’ve seen this Maurice Logan painting on the cover of a 1928 Southern Pacific booklet. Today’s booklet has the same cover illustration, but the interior content is very different. For one thing, this one is 32 pages long vs. 16 … Continue reading
This 1923 booklet has an unusual format. Instead of the typical 8″x9″ pages, this one’s pages are 16″x9″. The cover shown below is the left side of the back cover. The text begins on the right side of the back … Continue reading
“It takes no longer yet you see more” when you travel to California on the Golden State Limited, argues this post-war booklet issued by the Rock Island. While the booklet makes a lengthy argument for this claim, I consider it … Continue reading
While New York-Chicago was the center ring for eastern railroads, New York-Washington was an important sideshow connecting the nation’s financial center with its political center. This corridor featured an intense competition between the Pennsylvania and the Baltimore & Ohio. Click … Continue reading
We’ve previously seen a 1922 Burlington booklet about Colorado and Utah that proclaimed the two states were “America’s Playground for Americans.” This one, which says the same thing, is from 1926. The two share some of the same black-and-white photos, … Continue reading
We’ve already seen a 1938 CN booklet about Jasper National Park, which inevitably included a lot of information about the lodge as well. Today’s booklet, which is from archive.org, focuses on the lodge but with six pages of photos of … Continue reading
CN’s Jasper booklet for 1937 uses some of the same photos as in the 1938 booklet, but with substantially different text. I don’t yet have a 1936 booklet to compare it with. Click image to download a 13.0-MB PDF of … Continue reading