“There’s no vacation like a western vacation,” proclaims the vacation guide side of this brochure. It includes a few paragraphs and two or three black-and-white photos on each of the major tourist destinations accessed by Burlington trains: Colorado Rockies, Yellowstone, … Continue reading
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CN’s Jasper booklet for 1937 uses some of the same photos as in the 1938 booklet, but with substantially different text. I don’t yet have a 1936 booklet to compare it with. Click image to download a 13.0-MB PDF of … Continue reading
In 1937, Canadian National changed its Rockies/Triangle Tour advertising from a booklet to a brochure. The brochure has the equivalent of about 18 pages of text and photos, which made it unwieldy to open and read, so this change seems … Continue reading
The colorful map on the back of this brochure shows purple mountains, green valleys, blue rivers, a solid red line showing the route of the Canadian Pacific, and dotted red lines showing what must be hundreds of miles of trails. … Continue reading
The map in the today’s brochure is an updated version of the map in the 1935 Boulder Dam brochure presented here a few days ago. The map shows a much larger Las Vegas, of course, as by 1963 the city’s … Continue reading
The map in this brochure shows the location of roughly 750 forts, camps, fields, bases, and stations in the then-48 states. The other side of the brochure lists all of those installations by name along with the nearest train station. … Continue reading
With close to 650,000 residents (as of 2021), Las Vegas is the nation’s 25th-largest city. But in 1939, when Union Pacific issued this brochure, it had barely 8,000 residents, making it “still a frontier town,” according to this brochure. The … Continue reading
At 726 feet, Boulder Dam was the tallest in the world when it was completed. Although it wasn’t formally done until 1936, it was dedicated by President Roosevelt in September, 1935. Union Pacific published this brochure just one month later. … Continue reading
“It’s surprising how much of California’s unusual attractions vacation travelers can see” in two weeks, urges this brochure to travel agents. This would allow two days each in Los Angeles, San Diego (with a side trip to Mexico), Yosemite, and … Continue reading
Despite the name on the cover, the map on the back of this brochure only shows the Salt Lake Basin north of Ogden. Moreover, it extends well beyond the basin into the Snake River and Missouri River headwaters. Basically, it … Continue reading