According to the Streamliner Memories reader who contributed this PDF, this 1924 booklet is the first of Union Pacific’s many dude ranch booklets. It is likely that UP did a new dude ranch booklet every year, except for the war … Continue reading
This 1949 booklet is a standard 8″x9″ in size, but the front cover is only 4 inches wide, leaving half of the first interior page exposed. This is especially strange because the image on the front cover is a full … Continue reading
For Canadian Pacific and Canadian National, “Alaska” meant southeast Alaska, also known in this booklet as the Alaska panhandle. Approximately half of this booklet is devoted to the steamship journey up the Inside Passage to Ketchikan, Juneau, and Skagway. The … Continue reading
This travel guide is nearly a hundred years old, yet it is amazing how little has changed in the Southeast Alaska journey that the booklet describes. The populations of many of the communities, including Wrangell, Ketchikan, and Skagway, have doubled … Continue reading
This 36-page booklet lovingly describes the 17 Canadian hotels and lodges owned by Canadian Pacific in 1957, plus two tea houses. It courteously adds five Rocky Mountain resorts “owned by other organizations but working closely with Canadian Pacific.” Click image … Continue reading
This is a slight different, and slightly older, version of a booklet I’ve shown here before. The differences are small, but one of them is a mistake in a map on page 2 that reverses the locations of Vancouver and … Continue reading
In the late 1920s, Canadian Pacific was feeling besieged by the government-owned Canadian National, which had declared itself to be “the people’s railway.” Canadian Pacific responded that its trains, steamships, hotels, and telegraph made it “pre-eminently the expression of a … Continue reading
As I was collecting new Canadian Pacific menus for posting here, I discovered the Wallace B. Chung and Madeline H. Chung Collection, one of the best collections of digitized rail memorabilia on the web. Wallace Chung’s grandfather immigrated to Canada … Continue reading
This 1927 booklet tells of hikes, climbs, horseback rides, and scenic motorcar tours from Lake Louise. A centerfold map shows a trail network through the mountains to other lakes in the area. Canadian Pacific also had three tearooms, three bungalow … Continue reading
. . . from the Brotherhood of Railway, Airline & Steamship Clerks, Santa Fe System Board of Adjustment. Although there is a jet airliner on the top of the Christmas tree, this booklet is filled exclusively with photos of (and … Continue reading
