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This is an updated version of a 1950 booklet. The two booklets have many of the same photos and much the same text. In addition to having a different cover, the newer edition has five new color photos of scenery, … Continue reading
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This is the 1955 update to the 1947 Dude Ranches booklet we’ve seen before. The update not only has a different cover, it has far more pages: 60 vs. just 36. The 1955 booklet describes about 138 guest ranches compared … Continue reading
This near-postcard-sized booklet briefly describes Bryce, Zion, and the Grand Canyon as accessed by “all-expense motor bus tours” beginning from the Union Pacific station in Cedar City, Utah. The booklet invites people fascinated by the color photos to “ask any … Continue reading
Thanks to the Golden Gate Exposition, this guide has three more tours than the 1937 edition (the last one I have from the 1930s). New tours combine the Pacific Northwest, Yellowstone, and Southern Utah Parks with California and the expo. … Continue reading
This large, spiral-bound phonebook was published in 1939 by the Union Pacific Women’s Travel Department. However, it seems to be aimed at young boys as much as their mothers, as it is filled with black-and-white pictures of steam locomotives, Diesels, … Continue reading
Almost two-thirds of this booklet is devoted to the semi-streamlined (coaches, diners, and lounge cars appear streamlined but sleepers and observation car are not) Challenger, with the remaining third describing the railroad’s unique, and mostly less-than-daily, streamliners. Though the 49er … Continue reading
This booklet is almost identical to the 1937 edition, even having a similar cover. Where 1937’s cover had a stark, orange sky, this one has a more natural-looking cloudy sky. Click image to download a 42.4-MB PDF of this 60-page … Continue reading
The United States was creeping out of the Depression in 1937, which might explain the biggest change from the 1936 Summer Tours booklet. The 1937 edition dropped the “bargain California” tour, which used non-air-conditioned tourist sleepers, and replaced it with … Continue reading
The cover to this booklet is a lot like the 1935 version with the substitution of Old Faithful for a waterfall. Inside is a lot alike as well: I count the same number of tours to the same combinations of … Continue reading
This is the 1934 edition of Union Pacific/Chicago & North Western’s annual booklet of escorted tours. This one came with a small card glued to the front that read, “For 1935 vacation season, we will operate the same tours as … Continue reading