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In these post-COVID years I rarely think of a big city as a place to take a vacation. But I remember visiting Chicago many times in the past and going to places like the Field Museum, the Museum of Science … Continue reading
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With a pink flamingo on the back representing Florida and a Native American on the front representing the Seminoles (and therefore the train), this booklet describes Illinois Central’s entry into the competition for Midwest-Florida traffic in the early 1920s. IC … Continue reading
After World War II, the New Haven Railroad began offering “Pilgrim Tours” of New England and eastern Canada. This booklet describes 51 two- to fifteen-day tours that were offered in 1947. The tours were unescorted but the ticket prices included … Continue reading
Although it appears to have been issued a couple of years later, this is a companion booklet to the 1914 Columbia River Route booklet shown here two days ago. Like the Columbia booklet, this one is 36 pages long and … Continue reading
Through 40 photographs and a dozen pages of about 400 words of text each, this 52-page booklet introduces eastern readers to the Pacific Northwest. For Union Pacific, “Pacific Northwest” meant the Columbia River Gorge, Portland, Mount Hood, the Puget Sound, … Continue reading
This gorgeous booklet has an unusual but not unique design. Though it is the standard 8″x9″ format used for many railroad booklets and timetables, the front cover is only about 4 inches wide, leaving half of the title page exposed. … Continue reading
Today, we have a real treat: a romantic novel (or, really, short story) written to promote Union Pacific’s Los Angeles Limited. We’ve previously seen an 1889 brochure that told a fictional story of a romance in wonderland to advertise Northern … Continue reading
Today is the twelfth anniversary of Streamliner Memories, and I’ve often used this date to show Union Pacific menus that I’ve collected in the past year. As it happens, I haven’t found a previously unseen UP color photo menu in … Continue reading
In 1926, K. C. Ingram, a former newspaper writer turned Southern Pacific employee — he eventually rose to be assistant to the president — proposed that the railroad needed a unifying theme in its advertising. He argued that SP advertising … Continue reading
The bright, cheery half-tone colors of this booklet’s cover (which is the back cover) attracted me immediately. Unfortunately, it proved to be frustrating because I am unable to identify the artist who signed the cover “F Clark.” Click image to … Continue reading