New Orleans’ Vieux Carre (town square), today known as the French Quarter, was already more than 200 years old when Southern Pacific published this informative booklet in 1927. New Orleans grew to be the nation’s third-largest city by 1840, and … Continue reading
Pullman published a dozen “fact” booklets in about 1929; this is number 11 and the only one I haven’t previously shown here. It claims that first-class sleeping car fares in Europe cost almost twice as much as in the United … Continue reading
While this 1948 booklet is supposed to be about vacationing in New York state, nearly 40 percent of it (11 pages) is devoted to just one region: the Adirondaks. The Catskills, Finger Lakes, and Emerald Isles get 2 pages each … Continue reading
This booklet describes a dozen different escorted tours, most of them lasting two weeks. The least-expensive tour drops visitors at a hotel in Manitou Springs and leaves them there for ten days with a coupon book for day trips to … Continue reading
The text in the 1913 edition of Turquoise Skies is attributed to, or at least copyrighted by, L.M. Allen, who was Rock Island’s passenger traffic manager, even though John Sebastian was still Rock Island’s third vice-president in charge of passenger … Continue reading
The 1907 edition of Under the Turquoise Sky has a much nicer cover than the 1905 version. This image probably represents a scene in what would become Rocky Mountain National Park, where the Trail Ridge Road reaches dizzying heights. While … Continue reading
We have already seen a 1902 booklet by this name, as well as at least four later editions. The 1902 version contained text written by “Henry P. Phelps of New York,” who wrote travel booklets for several railroads. This one … Continue reading
In 1953, the Chesapeake & Ohio Railroad put out a series of tour guides to major cities and destinations along its route. We’ve previously seen ones for Charlottesville, the Virginia shore, Washington, and Williamsburg. None of them are dated, but … Continue reading
This beautiful little booklet was written in 1950 to inform Japanese children about trains in America. I haven’t previously posted it because I can’t read Japanese, but fortunately Streamliner Memories reader Akira Urushibata graciously translated it for us. The booklet’s … Continue reading
We’ve previously seen a 1951 version of Canadian Pacific’s booklet about eastern Canada and a 1953 booklet about western Canada. This is the eastern Canada version of the 1953 booklet. … Continue reading
