This brochure describes a 16-day tour from Chicago to Las Vegas and California destinations. I think the sickly green color of the brochure is supposed to represent gold, as in California is the Golden State and Las Vegas is where … Continue reading
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This is a companion to yesterday’s brochure focusing on Bryce, the Grand Canyon, and Zion. It offers a 12-day tour to southern Utah parks with stops in Salt Lake City and Denver, another 12-day tour that adds Las Vegas and … Continue reading
We’ve seen a 72-page booklet of Union Pacific’s 1958 summer tours and even a 12-panel (counting both sides) brochure covering those tours. Now we have a brochure dedicated exclusively to California tours. At 14 panels, this is larger than the … Continue reading
This four-page brochure describes the Rio Grande’s two routes between Denver and Salt Lake City with twenty small photos on the interior pages. The black-and-white photos have a hint of green tinting which isn’t always appropriate. Click image to download … Continue reading
From 1959 through 1964, Great Northern issued at least 22 of these brochures that fold up to be slightly smaller than a postcard. With this one for Spokane, the only one I know I am missing is for Hawaii. Click … Continue reading
The Southern Pacific and Santa Fe both advertised access to Carlsbad Caverns. The Santa Fe’s Amarillo line passed through Clovis, New Mexico, from which it offered afternoon or evening train #25 184 miles to Carlsbad and morning train #26 back. … Continue reading
During the war, the Super Chief‘s famous 39-3/4-hour schedule from Chicago to Los Angeles was increased by two hours, probably because the War Production Board decided that freight should have a higher priority. This brochure announces the return to “popular … Continue reading
Although Chicago’s 1933-1934 Century of Progress fair was usually called an “International Exhibition,” this booklet repeatedly calls it the “World’s Fair.” In fact, except for a line drawing of the Travel and Transport Building on page 2, there’s nothing about … Continue reading
The Minnesota History Center GN archive is full of little items relating to the Columbia River Historical Expedition. One of the educational features of the expedition was a museum car, curated by the Minnesota Historical Society’s Willoughby Babcock. This brochure … Continue reading
Great Northern’s invitation to the Upper Missouri Historical Expedition was bigger than 13″ by 20″, and I’ve never seen one folded so it must have been delivered in an even bigger envelope. This invitation to the Columbia River Historical Expedition … Continue reading