Nominally, this 24-half-page booklet is a companion to the 52-page tour booklet published the same year. Strangely, however, there aren’t many design cues that would suggest they go together. The background color on the covers appears to be a different … Continue reading
Slightly more colorful and nearly twice as long as yesterday’s booklet, this one was actually issued by the U.S. Railroad Administration, which took over the railroads during World War I. The government returned the railroads to their owners in March, … Continue reading
Congress created the National Park Service the year this booklet was published, but the agency isn’t mentioned in the text, mainly because the U.S. Army continued to manage the park until 1918. This 16-page booklet describes two- to five-day tours … Continue reading
A century ago, railroads sometimes die cut menus and booklets in the shape of products along their routes, such as apples, potatoes, and fish. Here is a 40-page booklet cut in the shape of an orange for the San Pedro, … Continue reading
This is the second booklet advertising the Pacific Great Eastern shown here; the first one was dated after 1959, as it mentions Alaska becoming a state in that year. This one is from several years before, as the railway described … Continue reading
This booklet is four pages longer than the Montreal guide, but like the Montreal one, it offers nine tours. The four-day tours to Niagara Falls and New York City, however, aren’t included, and the shortest tours offered to Chicagoans are … Continue reading
For 1964, CN shrank the Maple Leaf Tours booklets from roughly 7″x10″ to 3-3/4″x8-1/2″. This 16-page booklet features nine different tours that are described in much smaller print than in the 1961 tour booklets. Click image to download an 4.7-MB … Continue reading
Here is the Washington, DC version of CN’s tours booklets from 1961. In addition to the very different cover, it is four pages longer than the New York edition and offers 15 tours instead of just eight. Click image to … Continue reading
While most western railroads had tour booklets that described tours starting from one city, usually Chicago, Canadian National went to the trouble of having separate tour booklets for tours starting in at least four different cities. This one is for … Continue reading
This 1953 edition of a presumably annual booklet continues to advance the use of color. It includes ten color photos and eight large, four-color graphics illustrating the interiors of Jasper Lodge and its golf course. However, highlight colors are limited … Continue reading
