In about 1940, twenty-five cents would buy you this packet of ten different black-and-white postcards showing scenes along the Great Northern from St. Paul to the Pacific Northwest. I’m guessing on the date, but one postcard shows a view of … Continue reading
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Here’s a set of eleven Your America postcards issued by the Union Pacific right after World War II to encourage people to resume traveling. The postcards were illustrated by the Willmarth Studio of Omaha, which did a lot of illustration … Continue reading
These postcards were all issued by Union Pacific to advertise its trains to various national parks. As usual, click images to download PDFs of the postcards, most of which are under 400 KB in size. Many of these cards are … Continue reading
This large, spiral-bound phonebook was published in 1939 by the Union Pacific Women’s Travel Department. However, it seems to be aimed at young boys as much as their mothers, as it is filled with black-and-white pictures of steam locomotives, Diesels, … Continue reading
These blotters from the Dale Hastin collection aren’t dated, but most seem to be from before 1900. PDFs of the blotters are about 500 to 700 KB in size. This blotter shows the Dakota territory, suggesting it is from before … Continue reading
Completed in 1897, Kansas City Southern‘s line from Kansas City to Port Arthur, Texas, may have carried a lot of freight, but it didn’t attract many passengers. However, in 1939 KCS merged with the Louisiana & Arkansas Railway, creating a … Continue reading
The mainline of the Missouri-Kansas-Texas or Katy railroad went from Omaha and Kansas City to Dallas, San Antonio, and Houston. Although it also had a branch to St. Louis, the portion from St. Louis to Oklahoma was circuitous and slow. … Continue reading
In 1935, Boston & Maine introduced the Flying Yankee, a streamlined train that was a copy of the Burlington’s original Zephyr. The train was used for service between Boston and Bangor, Maine. This postcard is postmarked 1948, showing that B&M … Continue reading
The booklet is less about the train named Phoebe Snow and more about the advertising icon for which the train was named. At the turn of the 20th century, the Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad burned anthracite coal to power … Continue reading
The cover of this menu shows the Countess of Dufferin, the first locomotive in Manitoba (and, therefore, all of western Canada). The back of the menu carefully says the locomotive is “labelled C.P.R. No. 1.” In fact, as the Canadian … Continue reading