Like Florida, California was once considered a winter tourist destination, so winter fares were higher than in the summer. This brochure lists “Xcursion” round-trip fares from points in the Midwest and East to various cities in California and New Mexico, … Continue reading
We’ve previously seen a 1926 brochure with this title. Today, we have two more, one from 1930 and one from 1932. The fronts of all three brochures are nearly identical, though a few names and addresses on Santa Fe’s list … Continue reading
The great era of railroad construction was almost over when this map was published. The map shows the Burlington Route as being almost completely built out. The main additional construction was a line from Kirby (near Cody) through Wind River … Continue reading
Biloxi, Mississippi; New Orleans; Mobile, Alabama; and Pensacola, Florida are familiar names among the Gulf Coast resort towns advertised in this brochure. But some are not so familiar, including De Funiak Springs, Florida; Evergreen, Alabama; Ocean Springs, Mississippi; and Harrogate, … Continue reading
In 1871, Kentucky Congressman J. Proctor Knott gave a humorous speech on the floor of the House of Representatives ridiculing the idea of giving land grants to western railroads. He focused on Duluth, which at the time had about 3,000 … Continue reading
“There’s no vacation like a western vacation,” proclaims the vacation guide side of this brochure. It includes a few paragraphs and two or three black-and-white photos on each of the major tourist destinations accessed by Burlington trains: Colorado Rockies, Yellowstone, … Continue reading
CN’s Jasper booklet for 1937 uses some of the same photos as in the 1938 booklet, but with substantially different text. I don’t yet have a 1936 booklet to compare it with. Click image to download a 13.0-MB PDF of … Continue reading
In 1937, Canadian National changed its Rockies/Triangle Tour advertising from a booklet to a brochure. The brochure has the equivalent of about 18 pages of text and photos, which made it unwieldy to open and read, so this change seems … Continue reading
The colorful map on the back of this brochure shows purple mountains, green valleys, blue rivers, a solid red line showing the route of the Canadian Pacific, and dotted red lines showing what must be hundreds of miles of trails. … Continue reading
The map in the today’s brochure is an updated version of the map in the 1935 Boulder Dam brochure presented here a few days ago. The map shows a much larger Las Vegas, of course, as by 1963 the city’s … Continue reading
