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This is another undated issue of West, but it does say that the Beaver is a popular train to which SP will add more streamlined cars “this summer.” Since a previous edition informed us that the Beaver began operating in … Continue reading
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Though this issue of West is undated, it offers a clue by showing a picture of the City of San Francisco with the caption saying, “The second City of San Francisco will start early in July.” Since that train began … Continue reading
Although this is another undated issue, my guess would be February or April, 1941. The photos are all in color, which suggests a 1941 date rather than 1940, and I’ve seen the March, 1941 issue, which features Shasta Dam. Click … Continue reading
This edition of West is undated and there is nothing inside to indicate even a year. As promised on the cover, pages 2 and 3 focus on New Orleans, while page 4 briefly depicts other sites on the Sunset Route, … Continue reading
Yesterday’s edition of West had the month and year in the masthead, but this one does not. It encourages people to go to the 52nd Tournament of Roses in Pasadena, which took place in 1941, as well as other events … Continue reading
Under the name of West, Southern Pacific once published a series of monthly brochures whose covers looked like magazines, but each was just four pages long. All of the issues I have or have seen are from 1940 through 1942; … Continue reading
“All boys want to be real locomotive engineers someday,” said Southern Pacific. So it put together this 16-page introduction to SP locomotives and operations and offered boys an opportunity to be a “junior engineer.” Click image to download a 3.8-MB … Continue reading
Union Pacific once housed a museum in its Omaha headquarters building. The museum featured documents relating to the First Transcontinental Railroad signed by President Lincoln, an original silver service that came from a Pullman car built for Lincoln that served … Continue reading
After nearly 30 years of operations, Sun Valley’s infrastructure was wearing out. Rather than invest the estimated $6 million needed to rehabilitate it, Union Pacific decided to sell the nation’s first destination ski resort to Bill Janns, a southern California … Continue reading
The covers of this brochure give equal time to Hoover Dam and Las Vegas, but in fact most of the brochure is about Hoover Dam, which was apparently considered a bigger attraction that Vegas in 1953. One side of the … Continue reading