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Along with yesterday’s note pads came another note pad that I am pretty sure wasn’t issued by a railroad. I’m including it here both to warn people against fakes and to laud whoever did this for their creativity. I’m not … Continue reading
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In 1952, Burlington inaugurated the daytime Kansas City Zephyr and overnight American Royal Zephyr, hoping that the inclusion of dome cars would help it to compete with Santa Fe’s six trains a day between Chicago and Kansas City. It didn’t … 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
This note pad has no passenger content, but it provides some background to the sad demise of the Milwaukee Road. When the Great Northern and Northern Pacific merged into the Burlington Northern in 1970, one of the concessions they made … Continue reading
As in the case of yesterday’s note pad, this one has some tiny numbers and the words “Made in U.S.A.” at the bottom. However, I am pretty sure it is authentic and not a replica. Breast cancer commander cialis purchasing … Continue reading
Here’s a note pad that features the Great Northern’s version of the “ship and travel” theme used on note pads by many other railroads–enhanced with GN’s frequent use of the word “Great.” The tiny numbers and “Made in U.S.A.” at … Continue reading
As previously noted, despite celebrating its 75th anniversary in 1925, the Burlington Route declared that its 100th anniversary was in 1949. Here is a postcard noting that “Burlington was first to operate a railway postoffice car; first to inaugurate a … Continue reading
This note pad, with its overt advertisement for Santa Fe passenger trains, could almost be mistaken for on-board stationery. But the printing on the next sheet of the note pad is faintly visible in the scan. The railway probably distributed … Continue reading
Today’s Santa Fe note pad has an image of a war bonneted passenger train and a freight locomotive. I could be wrong, but the loco on the right looks a lot like the GP-35 in the photo below. If so, … Continue reading
In the drawing on this note pad, the freight locomotive on the right is distinguished from the passenger locomotive by the lack of a war bonnet pinstripe around the locomotive’s front porthole. The presence of the oval Santa Fe logo … Continue reading