In 1946, Pere Marquette Railway introduced the first post-war streamliner, the eponymously named Pere Marquette. This blotter from the Dale Hastin collection says the train offered luxury travel at coach fares. Click image to download a pdf of this blotter. … Continue reading
These blotters from the Dale Hastin collection were all published after World War II, but probably later than yesterday’s blotters. Click any blotter image to download a PDF of that blotter. Click other images for a larger view of that … Continue reading
These blotters from the Dale Hastin collection were all published shortly after World War II. Click any blotter image to download a PDF of that blotter. Click other images for a larger view of that image. The PDFs are about … Continue reading
These blotters from the Dale Hastin collection all come from the World War II years. Click any image to download a PDF of that blotter. The PDFs are about 0.3 to 0.6 megabytes in size. Given the subject matter, this … Continue reading
These blotters from the Dale Hastin collection all seem to predate World War II. Click any image to download a PDF of that blotter. The PDFs are about 0.3 to 0.6 megabytes in size. This blotter advertising the National Limited … Continue reading
These blotters are for various Wabash trains including Chicago-St. Louis, St. Louis-Kansas City, and one that went from Chicago to Detroit. Like yesterday’s, these are from the Dale Hastin collection. This blotter may actually be from the pre-war era as … Continue reading
The Wabash Railroad had lines to Toledo, Buffalo, Omaha, Des Moines, and upstate Michigan. But today’s blotters from Dale Hastin’s collection all advertise either its trains between Kansas City and St. Louis or between St. Louis and Chicago. Click any … Continue reading
This blotter bragged that Illinois Central’s three daily trains between Chicago and St. Louis were all “air-cooled.” Note that only the Daylight is “mechanically air-cooled” while the other two trains are merely “pre-cooled.” Good luck in staying cool on the … Continue reading
This beautiful blotter advertises Illinois Central’s all-Pullman Panama Limited from Chicago to New Orleans. The cloche hat worn by the woman in the picture dates the blotter to the 1920s, while the reference to Gulfport, Biloxi, and Pass Christian dates … Continue reading
Canadian National Railways was created in 1918 to manage a group of failed or failing government-sponsored railroads including the Canadian Northern, Intercolonial, and National Transcontinental. In 1920, it inaugurated the Continental Limited, a transcontinental train from Montreal to Vancouver that … Continue reading
