We’ve seen this booklet before, only in reverse. Scenic Route West started in Chicago and ended up in California; today’s booklet starts in the Pacific Northwest and ends up on the East Coast. Note the difference in color on the … Continue reading
The typical travel booklet presented here has typeset print, fancy photos, and center binding. In contrast, this is five typewriter-written pages stapled in the upper lefthand corner to a cover page with a pasted-on photograph. To save time, I didn’t … Continue reading
This undated booklet mentions that the Inside Passage route through Klamath Falls to San Francisco/Oakland “is expected to be ready for passenger service early in 1933.” So I suspect it is from 1931 or 1932. Passenger service on that route … Continue reading
Though this booklet has nearly the same title as yesterday’s, it is completely different from front to back. Perhaps to help promote Great Northern’s 1935 book of Winold Reiss’ paintings, this booklet features a painting of a Blackfeet Indian boy … Continue reading
This booklet is undated, but it refers to the completion of Going-to-the-Sun Road “this summer.” The Park Service says that it “celebrated the completion of the Going-to-the Sun Road on July 15, 1933,” so the booklet must date from 1932 … Continue reading
This booklet has no date, but since it advertises the “new” Oriental Limited, it is from 1924 or later; and since it does not mention the historical monuments that Great Northern built in 1925, it is from 1925 or earlier. … Continue reading
Here’s another in a series of Southern Pacific advertisements for the fact that it offered multiple routes into California. Some 24 of the 36 pages in this booklet are identical to those in a similar booklet that dated from before … Continue reading
The Sunset Route being longer than either the Shasta or Coast routes, this advertisement has twice as many pages. There are no photos or illustrations of passenger trains in the entire booklet, but several photos of New Orleans, cities in … Continue reading
This 1928 booklet has paintings by Maurice Logan on both the front and back covers. However, this is one of those curious railroad booklets in which what should be the front cover (shown immediately below) is on the back. Logan’s … Continue reading
Union Pacific’s 1947 dude ranches guide listed 108 ranches in 36 pages; the 1955 guide listed 138 ranches in 60 pages. This guide, from 1959, lists 143 ranches in 68 pages. Click image to download a 27.8-MB PDF of this … Continue reading
