This little brochure advertises, without too many details, cruises to “strange Alaska.” After a steamship ride from Seattle, tours were apparently offered on at least seven routes. “Golden Belt Line Tours” went from Seward to Fairbanks to Cordova. “Yukon River … Continue reading
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This 52-page brochure is more than twice the length of a 1929 brochure with the same name. Most of the contents of the 1929 brochure can be found in this earlier edition, with some major additions of course. Click image … Continue reading
Printed on ordinary (if slightly off-white) legal-sized (8-1/2″x14″) paper, this 1968 poster-brochure advertised a 15-day “Bonanza” tour to California and Las Vegas on one side and an 8-day “Paradise” tour to Colorado on the other. These tours were dramatically stripped … Continue reading
For 1964, instead of relying on tour buses to Rocky Mountain Park and other Colorado destinations, Burlington offered people a Hertz rental car for a week. While people were free to drive the car at whatever speed they wanted, they … Continue reading
For only $34 (about $200 today), the Burlington offered Chicagoans a two-day tour to Nauvoo, Illinois (an early Mormon settlement) and Hannibal, Missouri (boyhood home of Mark Twain). The weekend tours went via the Nebraska Zephyr to Burlington, bus to … Continue reading
This 1946 four-panel brochure is 5-1/2″x8-1/2″ folded but opens to 22 inches wide. The brochure briefly describes each of the main destinations reached by the Burlington and its parent railroads, GN and NP (though they are only mentioned on a … Continue reading
Like the NP West brochure, this one refers to the Red Lodge Gateway as “new,” saying it was “opening to railroad travelers with the 1937 season.” Unlike the West brochure, this one is clearly marked with a 1948 date, and … Continue reading
This is an updated version of yesterday’s brochure, with many interior pages exactly alike other than the use of red trim on this booklet. When this brochure was printed, both Bonneville Dam and Timberline Lodge (which opened in 1938) were … Continue reading
This 24-page brochure has no date, but it mentions the new “Red Lodge Gateway” (meaning the Beartooth Highway) to Yellowstone, which opened in 1936. It also shows Bonneville Dam under construction; since the dam was completed in 1937, this brochure … Continue reading
This 32-page brochure includes 23 pages of photos with a full-page map and about eight pages of text. In 1938, most travel in Alaska was by boat or train, so the brochure features several photos of the Alaska Railroad. Curiously, … Continue reading