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
If yesterday’s brochure was tiny, this one is a giant, unfolding to nearly 17″x22″. When unfolded it becomes an eight-page, stapled brochure, of which the “cover” shown below is actually the bottom half of page 8. Click image to download … Continue reading
As previously shown here, in the 1960s the Great Northern issued a series of what I call “tiny brochures”–because they fold to just 2-5/6″x5-1/2″–describing each of the many destinations reachable on GN rail. This one for Alaska appears to date … Continue reading
Chicago, Cleveland, and Detroit are given top billing as eastern cities you will want to visit after taking your trip across the West on the Empire Builder. Also mentioned are Cincinnati, Pittsburgh, Niagara Falls, and–almost as an afterthought (but more … Continue reading
This eight-page, black-and-white brochure is quite a come-down from the colorful 20-page brochure the Rio Grande published some two decades earlier. Perhaps, having just emerged from bankruptcy in 1947, the railroad was trying to save money. But wait! Did you … Continue reading
There’s no date on this brochure, but the centerfold map has no hint of a rail line from Dotsero to Denver, which means it was published before 1932, when the Denver & Rio Grande Western began building that line. The … Continue reading
