The Katy advertised the streamlined Texas Special with this blotter. Since the train was inaugurated in 1948, the blotter is probably from about that year. Click image to download a PDF of this blotter. In a rare example of coordination, … Continue reading
These blotters from the Dale Hastin collection were all issued by the Southern Railway. PDFs of the blotters are all 400 to 500 KB in size. This blotter must date to around 1934 or 1935, when railroads were hastily adding … Continue reading
Here are a few more blotters advertising Florida trains from the Dale Hastin collection. The PDFs range from 290- to 665-KB. As noted yesterday, Central of Georgia was a link in the chain of railroads providing routes from the Midwest … Continue reading
Here are some more Florida blotters from the Dale Hastin collection, this time from the Louisville & Nashville. The PDFs of each blotter are between 350 and 450 KB in size. Most of the trains list on this 1920s-era blotter … Continue reading
No single railroad had a line all the way from Chicago to Florida, and some trains journeyed over six different railroads just to get to Jacksonville. The one railroad these Dixie Route blotters from the Dale Hastin collection have in … Continue reading
When other railroads were beginning the conversion to Diesel, the Norfolk & Western became famous for building its own steam locomotives. The 4-8-4 J-class locomotive shown in the blotter below was built in 1941, so the blotter is probably from … Continue reading
These are more blotters from the Dale Hastin collection. As usual, click the images to download PDFs of the blotters. Each of the PDFs are about 0.4 megabytes in size. Norfolk & Western celebrated its centennial in 1938 with this … Continue reading
These blotters are from the Dale Hastin collection. As usual, click the images to download PDFs of the blotters, which are 300 to 600 KB in size. Listing agents in Jacksonville, Atlanta, and Washington, the first blotter advertises trains to … Continue reading
The Erie Railroad was another also-ran in Chicago-New York service, unable to compete against the New York Central and Pennsylvania except in the cities that it uniquely served along the way. Some of these blotters from the Dale Hastin collection … Continue reading
Here are two more blotters from the Dale Hastin collection. The first advertises Niagara Falls, reached via New York Central subsidiary Michigan Central. Judging from the locomotive, which appears to be a 4-8-2 (compare with the second photo on this … Continue reading
