Previously, I noted that Union Pacific published travel booklets for, among other places, Rocky Mountain National Park. I don’t have one of UP’s booklets for that park, but here is a 1924 booklet about the park from the Burlington. Click … Continue reading
This booklet was published two or three years after yesterday’s tour book, which came out in 1925 or shortly thereafter. The only date I can find in this one is February 1928 on the centerfold map. This only proves it … Continue reading
This 60-page booklet includes 55 black-and-white photos describing Yellowstone Park and the surrounding area–several featuring the Cody Gateway–as well as the trains tourists could take to reach the region. It also announces the creation of “Burlington Escorted Tours,” a joint … Continue reading
This booklet is undated, but judging from the bouffant hairstyles it must be from the late 1960s. Disneyland and Marineland are now important attractions, every photograph in the brochure is in color, and a stencil font is used for many … Continue reading
At first glance, this booklet looks like part of the same series of color-photo booklets as the Dude Ranches and Sun Valley guides. It doesn’t quite fit, however, mainly because of its size: 8-1/2″x11″ instead of 5-1/4″x7-1/2″. Inside there are … Continue reading
Since Sun Valley was, along with southern Utah, the crown jewel of Union Pacific’s tourist destinations, naturally it rated its own edition in the railroad’s expanded line of tourist guides. Not only was UP the only railroad that accessed Sun … Continue reading
When the Union Pacific introduced the color-photo format to its series of travel booklets, it added several new titles on top of its previous California/Colorado/Pacific Northwest/Yellowstone/Zion series. This 1947 booklet features western dude ranches. viagra online mastercard Trust the brand … Continue reading
This booklet doesn’t look anything like the map-on-cover guides that Union Pacific had published immediately prior to 1941. As shown below, the two-panel cover (which is actually the back cover; the front cover has a black-and-white photo of the San … Continue reading
The color-photo format suits the Southwest Utah parks well, with every photograph on the first 24 pages in color. Curiously, every photo on the remaining 20 pages is in black-and-white, which is unnecessary since nearly all of these pages were … Continue reading
Underscoring the importance of the southern Utah parks to Union Pacific, this is the only map-on-cover booklet with silver, rather than gold, printing on the cover. More important, unique among the map-on-cover booklets, this one has a full twenty true … Continue reading
