This was published in 1928, the same year as, and designed similarly to, a California booklet shown here previously. This particular booklet stresses Southern Pacific’s long-term “four great scenic routes” to the Pacific Coast theme. The Overland, Golden State, and … Continue reading
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This little booklet was no doubt designed to fit easily into a timetable rack and so doesn’t open out to 16″x9″ like many do. Although the booklet extols the “color and excitement” of California, it is filled with photos that … Continue reading
This 3″x5″ booklet says it was a souvenir of the Turquoise Room, the private dining room that formed a part of the dome car on the Super Chief. This car was introduced in 1950, so the booklet dates to that … Continue reading
President Coolidge declared Carlsbad Caverns a national monument in 1923 and Congress made it into a national park in 1930. I’ve been to the caverns and, while they are interesting, I suspect their year-round temperature of 56 degrees made them … Continue reading
Published by Fred Harvey with a 1911 copyright, this booklet contains 31 beautiful hand-colored photos and two paintings (including the cover) of the Southwest, which the editor apparently considered began in Colorado Springs and continued to Yosemite Park. The booklet … Continue reading
First published in 1912 (though this is the 1913 edition), this wonderful booklet was issued at the height of the Colorado & Southern’s narrow-gauge empire in Colorado. While most other Colorado booklets presented here were written by railroads that took … Continue reading
Hot Springs National Park is in a certain sense the world’s first national park, having been set aside by Congress as Hot Springs Reservation in 1832. Unlike most national parks since then, it wasn’t singled out for its outstanding scenery … Continue reading
Despite yesterday’s booklet, Missouri Pacific didn’t actually go to California. But it did go to Colorado, or at least, Pueblo, Colorado, from whence travelers could reach most of the rest of the state on MP’s former vassal railroad, the Rio … Continue reading
By 1927, when Missouri Pacific published this booklet, it had lost control of the Rio Grande and Western Pacific, so those railroads aren’t specifically mentioned here. The map in back, however, emphasizes them over the Union Pacific and Southern Pacific … Continue reading
This booklet is undated, but it refers to events that took place in 1908 so I am confident in dating it to 1909. At that time, Missouri Pacific effectively controlled the Rio Grande and Western Pacific, the latter of which … Continue reading