Under the name of West, Southern Pacific once published a series of monthly brochures whose covers looked like magazines, but each was just four pages long. All of the issues I have or have seen are from 1940 through 1942; … Continue reading
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“All boys want to be real locomotive engineers someday,” said Southern Pacific. So it put together this 16-page introduction to SP locomotives and operations and offered boys an opportunity to be a “junior engineer.” Click image to download a 3.8-MB … Continue reading
Union Pacific once housed a museum in its Omaha headquarters building. The museum featured documents relating to the First Transcontinental Railroad signed by President Lincoln, an original silver service that came from a Pullman car built for Lincoln that served … Continue reading
After nearly 30 years of operations, Sun Valley’s infrastructure was wearing out. Rather than invest the estimated $6 million needed to rehabilitate it, Union Pacific decided to sell the nation’s first destination ski resort to Bill Janns, a southern California … Continue reading
The covers of this brochure give equal time to Hoover Dam and Las Vegas, but in fact most of the brochure is about Hoover Dam, which was apparently considered a bigger attraction that Vegas in 1953. One side of the … Continue reading
In 1936, the Alaska Steamship Company published this brochure in cooperation with the Union Pacific. In a few months, I’ll post a similar brochure published in cooperation with the Great Northern. Click image to download an 4.3-MB PDF of this … Continue reading
The Chihuahua Pacific is one of the most scenic lines in Mexico. Part of the route is through the Copper Canyon, which is larger and deeper than the Grand Canyon (though not as steeply sided). Click image to download an … Continue reading
In the early 1960s, Canadian National began offering a “red, white, and blue” fare plan in which the lowest (red) fares were on Mondays through Thursdays and Saturdays with higher (white) fares on Fridays and Sundays and the highest (blue) … Continue reading
With planes, trains, trucks, ships, hotels, and telecommunications, Canadian Pacific could justifiably call itself a more complete transportation system than anything in the United States, where antitrust laws prevented the railroads from controlling most other forms of transportation. While Canadian … Continue reading
This brochure encourages people to take one “of Canada’s two scenic dome trains,” the Canadian and Dominion, or a Canadian Pacific “D.C. 8 Jet Empress” to their convention, wherever that might be. Perhaps there were a lot of conventions in … Continue reading