Canadian National issued several annual booklets about travel in the western provinces that complemented and blended into one another. The Jasper Park booklets described the lodge and the park and included a detailed list of activities and costs in the … Continue reading
We’ve previously seen UP booklets on California from 1915 and 1921, which had similar (though not identical) covers but different text and photos inside. However, they both covered the entire state, including the redwoods, the Bay Area, the Sierras, and … Continue reading
“Southern Pacific of Mexico has just completed connection of its lines between Tepic and Guadalajara, opening a route of great importance for commerce and travel from the United States, via Tucson and Njogales, Arizona, through to Mexico City and the … Continue reading
The unexpectedly high costs of building its Pacific Coast extension combined with unexpectedly low transcontinental freight business due to the opening of the Panama Canal put the St. Paul Road into receivership in 1925. Among other things, the receiver who … Continue reading
“Beginning June 20, 1949, the Northern Pacific will inaugurate new sightseeing bus service for Yellowstone Park travelers,” says this booklet, “to better reveal to them the majestic and inspiring mountain views between Livingston, Montana and the Gardiner Gateway.” Sadly, this … Continue reading
This post-war booklet briefly describes 22 escorted tours and 36 independent tours people could take of the West. Most of the tours used more than one railroad but so long as they used the Northern Pacific for part of their … Continue reading
Printed in green ink with red highlights, this booklet describes the “West” as it might be defined by someone from Chicago: everything west of the Wisconsin-Minnesota line. Mostly it is the Northwest, meaning the northern tier of states west of … Continue reading
People taking the Northern Pacific to or from the Golden Gate International Exposition would probably want to take at least a day or two to stop at Mount Rainier along the way. This booklet shows them what they might see … Continue reading
This booklet, which is courtesy of the NPRHA — Lorenz Schrenk collection, was prepared by Golden Gate International Exposition commission and shared with the Northern Pacific and other railroads with two blank pages for the railroads to use to advertise … Continue reading
We’ve previously seen a 12-page booklet advertising the Beartooth Highway, which the Northern Pacific insisted on calling the Red Lodge High Road because its passenger trains went as far as Red Lodge. Today’s booklet, which is courtesy of the NPRHA … Continue reading
