Here’s a different version of yesterday’s Cripple Creek Short Line brochure. Neither have a printing date, but I can discern the numerals “1/06” on one of the maps on this brochure. The very same map is used on yesterday’s edition … Continue reading
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In 1890, a prospector named Bob Womack discovered gold near Cripple Creek, Colorado, and eventually the Cripple Creek mining district produced more than 650 tons of gold worth close to $20 billion at today’s prices. Located about halfway between the … Continue reading
This brochure summarizes the escorted tours Burlington offered in 1933. While the escorted tour booklets of that period were 68 pages long, this brochure unfolds into the equivalent of six slightly larger pages. Click image to download a 1.6-MB PDF … Continue reading
This post-war brochure advertises “New Diesel Power for the North Coast Limited.” The brochure is dated 3-47, so the train itself would continue with pre-war heavyweight equipment for another year. Click image to download a 496-KB PDF of this brochure. … Continue reading
Unlike all the previous brochures in this series, this one actually has a date: 1-38. It is similar to the Portland brochure but with even more text: four pages are mostly text with small photos and one is all text, … Continue reading
This pictorial relies more on text than the ones of the last few days. It has three full-page photos and a fourth page with two photos. Three more pages have small photos but are mostly text and the last page … Continue reading
This pictorial notes that Northern Pacific trains follow 44 rivers between Chicago and the Pacific Northwest. The pictorial shows five full-page and four half-page photos of some of these rivers. Click image to download a 7.8-MB PDF of this brochure. … Continue reading
Here is another brochure in the same series as yesterday’s, with four 8-1/2″x11″ panels that unfold into a brochure of about 33″x11″. Also like yesterday’s, this one is undated, but it uses the phrase “completely air-conditioned,” which puts it to … Continue reading
In the late 1930s, Northern Pacific issued a series of brochures that folded up to be 8-1/2″x11″ or a bit smaller. The brochures featured many black-and-white photos with the NP logo and a few headlines highlighted in red. This is … Continue reading
Though “Pacific Northwest” usually refers to just Oregon and Washington, the brochure, which unfolds into the equivalent of six pages of a standard 8″x9″ booklet, gives equal time to Montana and Idaho. It has no date, but the mention of … Continue reading