The map in the center of this booklet is dated February, 1922, and no other date mentioned is later than 1920, so this booklet was probably published in 1922 or 1923. Like the 1916 Yellowstone booklet, the cover shown below … Continue reading
Like the Canadian Pacific Rockies booklets, this one is something of a cross between an advertisement and an along-the-way booklet. Most of the booklet is devoted to photos and lavish descriptions of major cities from Montreal to Vancouver, including plugs … Continue reading
Published in 1928, this 60-page booklet describes the train trip from Calgary to Vancouver with ferry to Victoria and Seattle. It also manages to advertise Canadian Pacific trains and its fourteen hotels throughout Canada plus eight bungalow camps in the … Continue reading
The cover of this 48-page booklet is a detail from a painting by Frederic Kimball Mizen. We’ve seen this painting before, though differently cropped, in a 1953 El Capitan booklet. Mizen, a Chicago artist, also did a Travel by Train … Continue reading
We’ve previously seen a 1945 “Along Your Way” booklet. This “by the way” booklet is from 1928. The 1928 version is 36 pages (including covers) printed entirely in blue. The 1945 edition is eight pages longer with the inside and … Continue reading
This 1958 booklet finishes the series of along-the-way guides for each of SP’s “four great routes.” SP published an along-the-way guide for the Coast Daylight route, but it was in a very different format as can be seen in this … Continue reading
Like yesterday’s booklet, this one is dated 1951 and is the same format. The maps show several alternate routes: two across the Rockies in Wyoming between Sherman and Laramie; two across the mountains just west of Great Salt Sure, the … Continue reading
Published in 1951, this 16-page booklet has the same format as yesterday’s along-the-way booklet for the Shasta Route. The booklet, of course, describes the Rock Island’s portion of the route from Chicago to Tucumcari as well the SP’s portion west … Continue reading
This 12-page booklet provides a city-by-city description of the Portland-San Francisco route used by Southern Pacific trains in 1950. By this time, all trains went on the West Side line through the Sacramento Valley (meaning they skipped Sacramento itself). There’s … Continue reading
Some railroads published along-the-way guides for each major route. This massive, 44-page brochure is meant to work for any and all Santa Fe passenger trains. This edition dates from 1945, but the brochure was republished many times over the years. … Continue reading
