For a mere $200 (nearly $1,400 in today’s money), a Chicago traveler could take a trip on the El Capitan and spend four days, three nights, in the Los Angeles area, including visits to Hollywood, Universal Studios, Busch Gardens, Knott’s … Continue reading
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Pullman’s exhibit at the 1948-1949 Chicago Railroad Fair may have been a dull repeat of its previous fair exhibits, but Santa Fe’s was stunningly daring and original. To advertise its association with the Southwest, the railway recreated a variety of … Continue reading
In the eight years after the end of the 1939-1940 New York World’s Fair, a world war had introduced many new technologies, an increasing number of railroads had purchased Budd stainless steel passenger trains, the development of dome cars was … Continue reading
This is Pullman’s contribution to literature about the 1939-1940 New York World’s Fair. It’s dated 1940; the 1939 brochure was much smaller and lacked any photos of the fair itself, no doubt because it was prepared before much of the … Continue reading
Much of this brochure was developed by the World’s Fair committee, and Southern Pacific added to it and adopted it for its own advertising. For example, here is the same cover but with “Admission 50¢ Children under Fourteen 25¢” in … Continue reading
Railroads exhibits occupied a large portion of the New York World’s Fair. This brochure, published by the Eastern Railroad President’s Conference, including a Railroads on Parade exhibit of historic locomotives in action, two large model railroads, and one of the … Continue reading
This English-language brochure provides information about what trains are like in France, the six train station in Paris, eating on board and in train stations, overnight travel, and motor coach tours. There’s also a page translating common railroading terms from … Continue reading
At first glance, this looks like just another edition of the 1959 Canada by Canadian Pacific brochure presented here awhile back, or the 1965 See Canada brochure posted yesterday. But, instead of being a 16-page, stapled booklet, like those, this … Continue reading
This 1965 brochure uses many of the same photos, graphics, and text as a 1959 brochure that I posted here previously. The biggest difference is the cover art. Click image to download a 7.3-MB PDF of this 16-page brochure. Click … Continue reading
This four-panel brochure from 1965 is the same size and color scheme (red and black) as the vista-dome brochure presented here a couple of days ago. It has eleven photos of destinations (four of which are of places that aren’t … Continue reading