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This booklet claims to be a brief history of the Union Pacific, but it is mostly a history of the construction of the railroad and the pounding of the famous gold spike. Sixteen pages deal with everything up to the … Continue reading
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This 1950 booklet, with an associated sheet of stamps showing pictures of each of the presidents through Truman, would have been given to children riding a train. The children would then carefully separate the stamps and glue them in the … Continue reading
On a hillside in San Bernardino County is a rocky outcropping in the shape of an Indian arrowhead. Since this was within the sight of passenger trains for the San Pedro, Los Angeles and Salt Lake Railroad for fifteen miles, … Continue reading
This is an update to the 1945 educational publication shown here a few days ago. Santa Fe presumably updated this every few years, though probably not every year. Though it follows the same general outline as the 1945 edition, it … Continue reading
Leland Knickerbocker’s warbonnet paint scheme helped make the Santa Fe a favorite among model railroaders. In 1953, with the help of Model Railroader magazine, the railway published this large (nearly 11″x14″), 48-page booklet stuffed with 1/4″-to-the-foot plans (U.S. O scale) … Continue reading
The Santa Fe distributed this booklet in 1945 “to answer the thousands of requests which are received each year from teachers and students throughout the country for material on railroads that will be suitable for classroom use.” The reading level … Continue reading
In 1958, Great Northern employed nearly 5,500 people in the Twin Cities area, with more than 1,500 of them working in the downtown headquarters building that it shared with Northern Pacific and First National Bank of St. Paul (both part … Continue reading
GN published this little booklet in 1958. Although the booklet is 16 pages (including the covers), the history itself fills just 10 double-spaced, typewritten pages and is only about 3,500 words long. It tells the story of James J. Hill, … Continue reading
Great Northern published this little history booklet in 1954 when it opened a new Diesel shop at Hillyard, the railway’s Spokane yard and shops. The booklet, which is from the Spokane Public Library’s Northwest Collection, notes that Hillyard (named after … Continue reading
The Milwaukee Road emerged from its second bankruptcy after World War II, so it must have felt rich enough to publish this booklet showing many of its historic and then-current locomotives. The booklet, which I scanned from the Spokane Public … Continue reading