Passengers who rode UP streamliners and domeliners in the late 1950s or early 1960s might have received their tickets in an envelope such as this one. The flap below the window There are really 2 separate issues cheap cialis here. … Continue reading
Great Northern never managed to get more than a minority of its rolling stock painted Big Sky Blue before the merger into Burlington Northern. But it did redesign ticket envelopes and other stationery using the new color. Here’s a ticket … Continue reading
Instead of a folder with a pocket, Western Pacific ticket envelopes were real commercial envelopes. The size is somewhat unusual: 3-1/2″ x 7-1/2″. The closest I can find for sale today is 3-7/8″ x 7-1/2″, the so-called Monarch envelope. In … Continue reading
The train portrayed on the front of this ticket envelope looks like the Empire Builder between 1955, when the dome cars were added to the train, and 1962, when GN simplified the locomotive color scheme by deleting the bottom orange … Continue reading
This colorful envelope features the full-length dome of the late-1950s Empire Builder. Someone apparently used this for a round-trip from Spokane to Chicago. Click image to download a PDF of this ticket envelope. Traveling in October, 1959, the round-trip fare … Continue reading
What color is silver, anyway? What color is a mirror? The railroads frequently attempted to evoke stainless steel trains in print, with varying degrees of success and failure. Most often, the result was a muddy grey. Over the course of … Continue reading
A printer’s mark dates this envelope to November, 1961. Inside reveals that a Mrs. A. W. Baker is leaving Portland on Tuesday, June 15, to go to Helena. The only year between 1961 and 1970 in which June 15 fell … Continue reading
Passengers on the Golden State or another Rock Island train might get tickets in this ticket envelope, the gold color of which is possibly meant to be a reminder of the train name. Click image to download a PDF of … Continue reading
The five trains on the cover of this ticket envelope–really more of a ticket folder–is the first clue that it was for the 1947 Empire Builder, as Great Northern advertising made much of the fact that the railway had purchased … Continue reading
The Pennsylvania considered itself the “standard railroad of the world,” so it didn’t stoop to having the same streamliners as other railroads; instead, it had “Pennsyliners.” At least, that what this 1954 ticket envelope says. Extensive cheapest cialis uk research … Continue reading
