Items from near the end of the Silver Age often betray a feeling of “How the mighty have fallen!” That’s especially true for this 44-page booklet advertising Burlington (and GN and NP) tours for 1969. Despite the Depression, Burlington Escorted … Continue reading
This booklet was passed out during “educational tours” for students who (judging from the photos) were in what we would today call middle school or junior high school. It describes the Burlington’s freight operations as well as passenger trains in … Continue reading
This 60-page booklet describes about two dozen dude ranches located near Cody, Wyoming. It also includes several pages on other attractions in the Cody area, including the Buffalo Bill Museum, the Cody Stampede (rodeo), and the Cody Road. There’s no … Continue reading
While the cover of this booklet is not as avant-garde as the 1932 edition, the four colors it uses are a bit more realistic and give a rustic feeling absent from that earlier booklet. Inside, the pages are all trimmed … Continue reading
Although the 1934 escorted tour booklet has the same number of pages as the 1932 edition, the 1934 booklet is smaller: 6″x9″ vs. 8″x10″ in 1932. Inside, the text and photographs are very similar, but the 1932 booklet was trimmed … Continue reading
Although Rocky Mountain National Park is only the subtitle, that turns out to be the sole subject of this booklet. Dated March 5, 1929, the 40-page booklet includes a large fold-out map in the back that shows roads and trails … Continue reading
This 32-page booklet contains much text and lots of black-and-white photos of mountains, lakes, hotels, and railroad lines. The Burlington itself didn’t go to Utah, and though its partner Rio Grande did, it is understandable that most of the booklet … Continue reading
This, the ninth in the same series of booklets described in yesterday’s post, discusses the mineral wealth of the Pacific Northwest. Nowadays, “Pacific Northwest” is used to refer to Oregon and Washington; but the railways that published this booklet expanded … Continue reading
The introduction to this 1924 booklet, which I scanned from the Spokane Public Library collection, notes that it is the eighth of the series of pamphlets published by the Burlington Route, Great Northern, and Northern Pacific railways “as part of … Continue reading
This 1932 booklet and one for Clatsop Beach are mentioned in the airplane-map brochures of yesterday and the day before. The cover painting shown below (which is the back cover) is based on a photo from that brochure of an … Continue reading
