This blotter is clearly from the pre-streamlined period (meaning before 1947) and probably from the pre-war period. We know the Empire Builder was only partially air conditioned in 1934, so it is from after that year. Some of the companies … Continue reading
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This blotter uses the same image as a note pad that I worried might be a replica, and the blotter also has a string of tiny numbers and “Printed in U.S.A.” at the bottom. Yet I feel pretty confident that … Continue reading
Instead of General Motors locomotives, this blotter features Alco PAs. Santa Fe first acquired these locomotives in 1946, so the blotter probably dates to that year or a year or two later. http://icks.org/n/data/ijks/1482457047_add_file_4.pdf buying viagra in australia The Federal authorities … Continue reading
This blotter advertising Glacier National Park was distributed by the Burlington Route. While many blotters are printed in only one or two colors, this one has a beautiful, four-color image of St. Mary’s Lake with Going to the Sun Mountain … Continue reading
Compared with yesterday’s Death Valley blotter, this one is boring. Why doesn’t it include a drawing illustrating some of the 200 miles of scenery? Considering that this blotter is printed in two different colors of ink, such a This prescription … Continue reading
Most western national parks had short seasons of around June 15 through September 15. But Union Pacific could offer a winter destination as well: Death Valley, which had a “delightful climate,” at least after November 2, when the 1928 season … Continue reading
When the City of St. Louis was a mere streamliner, it had its own on-board stationery. By the mid-1960s, however, after the Norfolk & Western had taken over the Wabash, the Union Pacific printed just one set of stationery for … Continue reading
When the Great Northern purchased equipment for a second transcontinental streamliner, it decided to retire the name Oriental Limited. This had been the railway’s premiere train from 1905 to 1929 and its secondary transcontinental from 1929 to 1931, when it … Continue reading