The title of this 1940 booklet is apt as Colorado is a wonderful place to vacation. The Rocky Mountains west of Denver seem endless, yet they are interrupted by broad valleys that the pioneers called “parks,” as in Estes Park, … Continue reading
The six bargain tours offered by Burlington Escorted Tours in 1936 must have been successful, as they slightly expanded the offerings in 1937. Five of the six tours offered in 1936 are included here: California-Grand Canyon; Grand Canyon-California-Pacific Northwest; Canadian … Continue reading
This booklet is nearly identical to a 1954 edition posted here a few days ago. The big difference, other than the date on the back cover, is that some of the text and photographs are printed in blue rather than … Continue reading
This 52-page booklet is filled with black-and-white photos of the park as it appeared in 1939. The text includes a one-page essay by Emerson Hough that was also included in Northern Pacific’s 1954 booklet (and no doubt several others). Click … Continue reading
This 44-page booklet is too fancy for NP to have given it out to ordinary tourists, and doesn’t have a price so it probably wasn’t sold. Instead, it was probably given to travel agents to help them sell trips to … Continue reading
This booklet is dated 1954, the year Northern Pacific introduced the Loewy color scheme for its passenger trains and dome cars for the North Coast Limited. But there’s no sign of either change in the booklet, which shows the Pine … Continue reading
Burlington, Great Northern, and Union Pacific dude ranch booklets typically included a few pages describing dude ranch vacations followed by many pages of one- or two-paragraph descriptions of all the dude ranches near each railroad’s lines. Northern Pacific did it … Continue reading
An earlier booklet with this name provided generic information about hotels, lodges, and other destinations. This one is more specific, suggesting nine different tours along with transportation fares for each one and some idea of hotel rates in various parks … Continue reading
We’ve previously seen a version of this booklet which I dated to 1924 or possibly 1925 based on the fact that it advertised the “New Oriental Limited,” which was introduced in 1924, and that the only photos of that train … Continue reading
This 1939 booklet is one of the first in which the Great Northern used color photos, no doubt partly inspired by the introduction of Kodachrome in 1935. Though limited to the inside and outside front and back covers, the color … Continue reading
