We’ve already seen a 1950 edition of this booklet. Two years later the booklet was barely changed, though photographs on pages 6 and 7 were replaced, perhaps to reflect changes in the train’s observation cars. Both editions note that the … Continue reading
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If the color covers of these booklets advertising Union Pacific streamliners are meant to have local significance, it’s hard to imagine what this grey cover denotes unless it is the clouds and fog that are often found covering San Francisco … Continue reading
This booklet is parallel to yesterday’s for the City of Denver. Is the green cover supposed to be reminiscent of Oregon’s evergreen forests while the City of Denver red cover denotes Colorado’s red rocks? Or was UP just trying to … Continue reading
Here’s a post-war update to the inaugural booklet for Union Pacific’s Chicago-Denver train. This one has fewer pages and is slightly smaller in size and indicates both the similarities and differences between the 1936 and 1950 versions of this train. … Continue reading
Union Pacific inaugurated the City of Los Angeles, City of Portland, and City of San Francisco in 1935, with the City of Denver coming in June, 1936. This booklet isn’t dated, but at one point it refers to the train … Continue reading
We’ve previously seen a 1957 version of this booklet. This one has 12 pages while the 1957 edition had 16. Pretty much all of the pages in this one, except the cover, are also in the 1957 edition, with slight … Continue reading
The Golden Gate Exposition ended in 1940, but the Burlington-Rio Grande-Western Pacific train named after it was so successful that the railroads kept it going. This attractive train booklet creatively uses just three colors of ink–blue, orange, and black–on most … Continue reading
Here is an impressively large–11″x14″–booklet heralding the new North Coast Limited in May, 1930. Great Northern had introduced its new Empire Builder the year before, and NP was trying to keep up. The booklet was obviously designed to impress. Not … Continue reading
This 12-page booklet is undated, but it describes the Daylight (not yet called the Coast Daylight) as if it were brand new, which puts it to 1937. Another indication that the booklet came out with the new train is that … Continue reading
This 16-page brochure has two Bruce Bomberger paintings on the cover plus 19 color and seven black-and-white photos inside. Both the paintings and many of the photos are familiar from other advertising. Click image to download an 11.3-MB PDF of … Continue reading