Members of Great Northern’s 1925 Upper Missouri Historical Expedition apparently received a pin such as this one to wear during the trip. It probably made it easier to identify who was and who was not a member of the expedition … Continue reading
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I’ve previously told how husband-wife artist team Martin & Flora DeMuth talked Canadian Pacific into letting them go on at least 15 cruises in exchange for doing artwork and (in Martin’s case) giving lectures for those cruises. Indeed, it is … Continue reading
We’ve seen Southern Pacific portfolios of photographs for the Overland Route, Shasta Route, and Valley & Coast Routes, so it stands to reason that there would be portfolios for the Sunset and Golden State routes. This is the first one … Continue reading
Here’s a Union Pacific menu we haven’t seen before. We have seen the color photo on a 1929 menu in the Art Nouveau series. Most of the cover photos from that series were also used in this series, which I … Continue reading
About a year ago, I posted a 1928 Great Northern Railway brochure advertising air service between Minneapolis and Chicago. This potentially saved passengers aboard the eastbound Oriental Limited several hours of their journey. Since the Pennsylvania Railroad didn’t start joint … Continue reading
Helen Hruska carefully saved programmes for each day’s activities on the Greenoch-Montreal voyage, so I owe it to her to post them here. Most of them list music, films, dances, and games held each late afternoon and evening of the … Continue reading
Although the Empress of Scotland went from Montreal to Liverpool, Helen and Vilma Hruska got off in Greenock, Scotland, on July 5, a day before the ship arrived in Liverpool. They returned on the same ship, leaving August 21 and … Continue reading
Southern Pacific issued several portfolios like this one with names like Scenic Grandeur of the West and Scenic California. Each contained 16 color or colorized photos “suitable for framing.” The ones we’ve previously seen that are dated 1943 say they … Continue reading
It’s always been a bit of a puzzle to me why the Great Northern didn’t use the “as-delivered” paint scheme for its E-7 Diesels when it put those locomotives into service pulling the 1947 streamlined Empire Builder. The orange-and-green colors … Continue reading
In about 1961, Union Pacific began using the phrase “automated rail way” in its advertising and on its box cars. The letters on the boxcars were often in eight different colors, though this notepad only uses two. Since “rail” was … Continue reading