Here is Alex Dulfer’s version of sixteen color photos for the Overland Route. Like the Shasta Route photos, they are better quality than the National Color Press photos, or at least they have aged better. Click image to download a … Continue reading
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Some time after 1948 — I’m guessing around 1950 — a company called Alex Dulfer Lithographing issued a new set of 16 color photos of the Shasta Route. Like the National Color Press set, these would have been sold in … Continue reading
After discarding all of the photographs that are duplicates of ones in other sets in this series, this packet has even fewer unique photos than the Overland Route folio. Just two photos, one of Hollywood Boulevard and one of “the … Continue reading
If you already had the other folios of scenes along the Southern Pacific — the Shasta Route, California, San Francisco, and Grandeur of the West — you might be disappointed to learn that thirteen of the sixteen photos in the … Continue reading
This packet of sixteen color photos is similar to photo sets we’ve seen before of San Francisco, California, and the West. There was also one for the Overland Route which I’ll post tomorrow and one for the California Coast and … Continue reading
After my 49-day 1978-79 trip on Amtrak and VIA, I took VIA to Banff sometime in the mid-1980s, but I don’t seem to have any memorabilia from that trip. My other big trip was in 1990, when budget cuts led … Continue reading
VIA’s blue-and-yellow colors were a refreshing improvement over Canadian National’s nearly black and dirty white. These colors were featured on this piece of cardboard that came pre-perforated to allow children to fold the cutouts into a little train consisting of … Continue reading
The Atlantic was Canadian Pacific’s train between Montreal and Halifax, competing with Canadian National’s Ocean and Scotian. VIA continued to operate trains on both routes until 1990, when budget cutbacks led VIA to drop many of the Canadian Pacific routes. … Continue reading
Named after the Skeena River, the Skeena was VIA’s name for the train that went between Jasper and Prince Rupert. This route formed one of the legs of Canadian National’s Triangle Route from Vancouver to Jasper to Prince Rupert and … Continue reading
The shape of this hat is similar, but not quite identical, to the Northern Pacific children’s hats shown here previously. There’s no date on the Amtrak hat, so I’m The order generic tadalafil cipla is made of Sildenafil citrate. Common … Continue reading