This is an odd booklet, as it seems to commemorate the Milwaukee Road’s 92nd anniversary–which isn’t exactly a year that normally is cause for notice, at least not for corporations. Most of the interior text is in a typewriter font, … Continue reading
The Baltimore & Ohio long claimed to be the nation’s “first and oldest continuously running common carrier railroad,” and it celebrated its centennial with a grandiose exhibition in 1927. Yet here is the New York Central preemptively claiming its own … Continue reading
The Railway Express Agency provided small package express service by train between 23,000 American cities and towns. This booklet attempts to persuade people who attended the Chicago’s 1933 Century of Progress fair that this was an exciting and even romantic … Continue reading
This children’s booklet tells the history of Canadian travel in general and Canadian Pacific in particular through sixteen six-line poems and accompanying sketches. A card is glued to the inside back cover that contains a “secret” message for “Mother, Father, … Continue reading
For Christmas in 1924, friends and customers of the Great Northern Railway received an elegant little book about the first American clipper ship to serve the China trade. Although the book doesn’t say so, The Oriental and Captain Palmer was … Continue reading
As previously noted, the Burlington celebrated its 100th anniversary in 1949, even though it previously had dated its founding to 1850. This booklet, which places the railroad’s 90th anniversary in 1940, is further evidence that it changed the birth year … Continue reading
Here’s another publication about the railroad exhibit at the 1939-1940 New York World’s Fair. This one was printed for the 1940 season, and like yesterday’s brochure is also by the Eastern Railroad’s Presidents Conference. The 20-page book is a guide … Continue reading
Though oriented differently, this booklet is about the same size, and uses the same paper, as the North Coast Limited Train Service Guide and the Story of the Monad. Only one-and-a-half pages of the booklet are about the The semen, … Continue reading
In 1956, the Spokane, Portland & Seattle Railway ran a Farewell to Steam excursion, with the SP&S 700 pulling 21 cars up the Columbia River Gorge. In 1957, the Northern Pacific offered the last of several Casey Jones Specials. The … Continue reading
In 1933, the Burlington claimed to be 83 years old, which would mean it was born in 1850. But later the company decided its centennial would be in 1949, based on when its earliest predecessor received its charter. It is … Continue reading
