Miniature is right: when folded, this little brochure is only about 2″x3-1/4″. It unfolds to be fourteen panels wide, on one side of which is an illustration of a freight train showing all the different kinds of freight cars used … Continue reading
This brochure doesn’t really tell how Budd built passenger cars, but it does repeatedly emphasize that everything “underneath that deep-piled carpet you’re standing on” is stainless steel, not ordinary steel with a stainless steel covering like some manufacturers made. The … Continue reading
Ralph Budd was one of more than 10 million people who saw the General Motors Century of Progress exhibit in 1933, and for 1934, this brochure says, “Everything has been changed” except for the Chevrolet assembly line (which was the … Continue reading
In 1933, no one had any idea that General Motors would soon become the nation’s largest builder of railroad locomotives. So it is not surprising that this brochure, which was distributed at Chicago’s Century of Progress exposition, focuses on GM’s … Continue reading
Union Pacific handed out this brochure describing the road road’s history of locomotion on the railroad at the 1948 Chicago Rail Fair. Curiously, it doesn’t start with locomotive 119, which was present at the Last Spike ceremony, or any other … Continue reading
The Chicago, Milwaukee & Puget Sound–the Pacific Coast extension of the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul (which in those days was known as the St. Paul Road; the nickname changed to Milwaukee Road only after the company went bankrupt and … Continue reading
This three-page article promoting Pullman’s Train X appeared in 1948, eight years before the train itself was first inaugurated. The article is by Robert Young, known as “the daring young man of Wall Street” and as someone who embraced innovations … Continue reading
