People today generally view competition as a good thing, but a century ago businessmen usually preceded the word “competition” with “ruinous,” as too much competition prevented corporations from earning profits. At that time, Britain had more than 100 railway companies, … Continue reading
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In 1964, Japan amazed the world by introducing the bullet trains, or Shinkansen, between Tokyo and Osaka, possibly the busiest rail corridor in the world. By today’s standards, these trains weren’t high-speed rail (which is commonly defined as 150 miles … Continue reading
If the PDF of this booklet looks repetitious, it is because most of the 6-1/4-inch-wide pages of color photos are interspersed with 2-1/2″-wide pages of text. Even more confusing is that most of the photos are oriented at 90 degrees … Continue reading
This beautiful booklet was used to introduce the 1949 Columbian, an all-coach train between Chicago and Baltimore-Washington that complemented the all-Pullman Capital Limited. I’ve previously described this train twice, but this booklet provides far more information. Click image to download … Continue reading
Previously featured here, the all-coach Jeffersonian was the St. Louis version of the New York-Chicago Trail Blazer. The latter train was inaugurated in 1939 and was successful enough for the Pennsylvania to begin operating the Jeffersonian in 1941. After the … Continue reading
While most name-train booklets are aimed at attracting passengers, this one is aimed at selling passenger cars. The booklet provides details about the fine points of such things as Budd’s disc brakes, which weighed 1,000 pounds less per car than … Continue reading
This is a post-war update of a 1936 brochure that was issued when the train was new. The 1936 edition was a fold-out brochure with a total of 18 panels while this is a stapled booklet with 16 pages about … Continue reading
This little booklet advertising the North Coast Limited also served as a business card for Northern Pacific’s passenger agent in Detroit, Michigan. New equipment from Pullman that was put into service on May 14, 1930 (previously featured here and here) … Continue reading
The Milwaukee Road added superdomes to the Olympian Hiawatha on January 1, 1953. We’ve previously seen a December, 1952 booklet about those domes. This June, 1953 booklet modifies yesterday’s booklet by adding information about the domes. Click image to download … Continue reading
The Milwaukee Road inaugurated the Olympian Hiawatha in 1947, but didn’t fully streamline it until 1949. I’ve previously shown a 1947 booklet advertising the train. This one is very different, both in format (portrait rather than landscape) and colors (the … Continue reading