This birdseye map show the “Pacific Slope,” which mostly means California with bits of Nevada off in the distance. Having been made in the early 1890s, almost all of the rail lines shown on the map are Southern Pacific, and … Continue reading
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Here’s another “birdseye view” from the “World Pictorial Line,” a.k.a. the Union Pacific. The map in the brochure shows UP routes from Omaha to Cheyenne, Kansas City to Denver, and many of the routes in-between. Unlike yesterday’s brochure, nearly all … Continue reading
“By the recent acquisition of the Denver, Texas & Fort Worth Railway, the Union Pacific System controls an imperial domain extending from the mountain heights of Colorado to the Gulf [of] Mexico,” proclaims this brochure, which includes a colorful “birdseye” … Continue reading
This issue of West, the first I’ve seen dated later than 1942, celebrates the 75th anniversary of the completion of the Central Pacific and Union Pacific transcontinental railroad. The cover drawing shows Chinese workers being “lowered in baskets to chip … Continue reading
The tour described in this brochure from the NPRHA — Lorenz Schrenk collection is different from the ones in shown in the last two days, mainly by including a trip to the Grand Tetons. The basic tour starts in Livingston … Continue reading
This brochure, from the NRPHA — Lorenz Schrenk collection, advertises the same three-day tours through Yellowstone that were listed in yesterday’s: one for westbound travelers that went through Cody and one for eastbound travelers that went through Red Lodge. Due … Continue reading
By 1964, Northern Pacific had gone from issuing 68-page booklets about Yellowstone to four-page brochures. Even the NP brochures about Yellowstone in the 1920s and 1938s were more than twice as big as this when unfolded. At a time when … Continue reading
Here’s one more Northern Pacific/Alaska Steamship brochure from the NPRHA — Lorenz Schrenk collection. Several of the tour prices in this brochure are a little higher than in Great Northern’s 1936 brochure but a little lower than Great Northern’s 1938 … Continue reading
This brochure is similar to yesterday’s, but it advertises a “completely air conditioned” North Coast Limited. That dates it to at least 1935. Like yesterday’s, this booklet is courtesy of NPRHA — Lorenz Schrenk collection. Click image to download a … Continue reading
“All American” meant taking the Northern Pacific or another U.S. railroad to Seattle and then taking an Alaska Steamship Company ship rather than a Canadian Pacific or Canadian National ship to Alaska. This brochure is mostly about Alaska but at … Continue reading