The previous booklet of the same title must have been successful, because by 1951 Canadian Pacific had improved it by printing all photos in full color. The photos are also accompanied by the same cyan-and-magenta topographic maps of each segment … Continue reading
This booklet advertises the White Pass & Yukon Route, one of my favorite railroads, but sadly only includes one or two muddy photos of WP&Y trains. While the vertical scale of the scene on the cover (which is actually the … Continue reading
This beautiful, 28-page booklet is, unfortunately, undated. The newest locomotives pictured in the booklet date to 1938. A similar booklet, that I’ll post here soon, is dated 1951, and has all color photos, while a shorter brochure is dated 1949 … Continue reading
Here’s the 1948 edition of Canadian National’s prewar booklet about the Triangle Route between Jasper, Prince Rupert, and Vancouver. CN marketing has completely rewritten the booklet, reusing only a few photos from the 1940 edition. The cover photo is a … Continue reading
This is a 52-page booklet with a fold-out map on the inside back cover. The front cover photo wraps around to the back, so I elected to put both the front and the back on the same spread. The fold-out … Continue reading
Half-owned by the Canadian government, CN’s trains were never quite as elegant, its transcontinental route was longer, and its mountain scenery wasn’t quite as spectacular as CP’s. But CN had one thing that CP did not: a line to a … Continue reading
This little booklet announces a color photography contest open to anyone (except CP employees) who registered as a guest with a Canadian Pacific hotel or lodge in the Rocky Mountains during 1939. The top prize was $250 (close to $3,400 … Continue reading
The Super Chief was a first-class operation, and most of these recipes were what we would today call upscale: braised duck Cumberland, curry of lamb, lobster Americaine, poached eggs a la reine–harlequin, and empanadas with vanilla sauce, to name a … Continue reading
Published in April, 1948, when T.B. Gallaher was still Santa Fe’s General Passenger Traffic Manager, this 24-page booklet was part of Santa Fe’s effort to capture post-war vacation travelers. Aside from a centerfold map of the Santa Fe system, three … Continue reading
We already seen a 1941 edition of this booklet, but other than the name and both being issued by the Santa Fe Railway, the two have very little in common. This 1923 version has fewer pages (28 vs. 40), but … Continue reading
