This 1940 booklet that I scanned from the Spokane Public Library Northwest Collection offers pre-war travelers four trips from Chicago to the Northwest. The first takes the Milwaukee to Seattle, a Canadian Pacific liner to Victoria and Vancouver, the Canadian … Continue reading
This 24-page booklet has 22 pages of information and pictures of the Golden Gate Exposition and two pages of information and pictures of Milwaukee Road trains. I’ve seen almost identical booklets, distinguished only by the railroad name at the bottom … Continue reading
Various publishers issued paperback booklets like this for selected rail routes, such as the Rio Grande (“Rocky Mountain Views”), SP’s Portland-San Francisco line (“Shasta Route”), and Union Pacific’s Overland Route (“Pathway to the Setting Sun”). While not railroad issue, they … Continue reading
Though this booklet (which I scanned from the Spokane Public Library Northwest collection) has lots of black-and-white photos of Milwaukee trains in the mountains, its main purpose is to provide a technical overview of the railroad’s electrification. When installed in … Continue reading
Where the Burlington and Union Pacific reached Colorado in Denver, and the Rock Island in Denver and Colorado Springs, the Missouri Pacific extended to Pueblo. So it isn’t surprising that the maps on pages 24 and 26 of this booklet … Continue reading
This tabloid-sized ad for seven-day escorted tours of Virginia was published by the Chesapeake & Ohio in 1931. Jamestown, Williamsburg, Yorktown, Mt. Vernon, Monticello, and various historic monuments and sites in and around Washington, DC were all featured on the … Continue reading
The Lackawanna didn’t make it any further west than Buffalo, but that didn’t stop it from offering escorted tours to Colorado, Yellowstone, California, and the Pacific Northwest. The California tours in this 1940 booklet had the added bonus of including … Continue reading
The 1947 booklet is credited to cartoonist Don Herold, but it seems likely he did only the sketches, as the text draws heavily from other B&O publications of that era. The basic pitch is that Manhattan travelers would find it … Continue reading
After collecting, restoring, and reproducing numerous old locomotives and rail cars for the railroad’s 1927 centennial, and then showing off many of the items in that collection at various fairs in the 1930s and 1940s, the B&O decided to open … Continue reading
Chicago held its Century of Progress Fair, celebrating its first century of existence, just six years after the B&O celebrated its own centennial. This made it easy for B&O to send to the Chicago fair the “choicest historical” (and pseudo-historical–some … Continue reading
