On December 12, 1911, just one week after the Southern Pacific reinaugurated the Sunset Limited, Santa Fe threw down the gauntlet in the Chicago-Los Angeles market by introducing a train that may have been the poshest, most exclusive passenger train … Continue reading
As the Santa Fe was growing its service to Los Angeles from Chicago, the Southern Pacific was expanding its own service between Los Angeles and New Orleans. While Wikipedia and other web sites seem to be confused about the railroad’s … Continue reading
I’ve shown this ad before in a post on Bern Hill’s artwork for General Motors. Since then I’ve acquired these sample advertisements distributed by the Kudner Agency of New York. Click image to download a 836-KB PDF of this ad. … Continue reading
No, that’s not an April Fool’s joke: the North Coast Limited really was a Chicago & North Western train for about seven years in the 1910s. This seems peculiar for those used to thinking of the train as a Northern … Continue reading
I’ve already shown this ad from my collection of National Geographics once, but this mailer came with my new look RDC brochure, so I’m presenting it again. The mailer says the ad was featured in August, 1956, issues of Time, … Continue reading
This North Coast Limited menu doesn’t have a date, but it urges people to “apply now for training as a U.S. Army Aviation Cadet.” This places it before 1947, when the Army Air Corps became the Air Force. Since the … Continue reading
As previously noted, the Southern Pacific was the last of the three “overland” railroads to actually use the name Overland Limited, as Union Pacific and Chicago & North Western began using the name no later than 1895 while SP did … Continue reading
Like a previous Southern Pacific ad, this is actually a brochure sent out to ticket and travel agents that consists mainly of a two-page ad that must have appeared in Saturday Evening Post or other magazines. The ad encourages people … Continue reading
Southern Pacific sent its ticket and travel agents copies of this brochure, which reprints an ad that appeared in April, 1938 editions of Saturday Evening Post and Time magazines. The brochure notes that the railroad had previously had ads in … Continue reading
Today is the first anniversary of this blog. To date, I’ve posted nearly 500 PDFs of various streamliner memorabilia, including more than 100 for the Great Northern, 80 for the Union Pacific, nearly 80 for the Burlington (including the California … Continue reading
