Unlike yesterday’s, this piece includes the entire calendar. However, I’ve only scanned the first page showing January, 1957 (and, in smaller print, December 1956, and February 1956). Click image to download a 1.9-MB PDF of this calendar. The calendar came … Continue reading
This looks like a poster but it is actually the top of a calendar. Unfortunately, someone cut the bottom off before I acquired it. The calendar is presumably for 1953, the year the Super Domes first appeared on the Hiawathas. … Continue reading
This guide covers the route from Chicago to Seattle with brief descriptions of cities and sites along the way as well as lots of small, black-and-white photos. The booklet is undated, but the centerfold map is dated December, 1952. Such … Continue reading
The Milwaukee Road added superdomes to the Olympian Hiawatha on January 1, 1953. We’ve previously seen a December, 1952 booklet about those domes. This June, 1953 booklet modifies yesterday’s booklet by adding information about the domes. Click image to download … Continue reading
The Milwaukee Road inaugurated the Olympian Hiawatha in 1947, but didn’t fully streamline it until 1949. I’ve previously shown a 1947 booklet advertising the train. This one is very different, both in format (portrait rather than landscape) and colors (the … Continue reading
A friend of Streamliner Memories provided scans of this timetable, which is in poor shape but still very readable. It is missing a page which was a fold-out map that was torn out. Otherwise, all of the timetables should be … Continue reading
Businesses often change their names subtly after coming out of bankruptcy so that no one, especially creditors, will mistake them for the former company. The Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railroad went bankrupt in 1925, and emerged as the Chicago, … Continue reading
One more Milwaukee Road booklet from the Spokane Public Library’s Northwest Collection shows scenes in California, Nevada, and Oregon, three states not actually served by the Milwaukee. The 32-page booklet was published in 1960, just a year before the Milwaukee … Continue reading
The Milwaukee Road emerged from its second bankruptcy after World War II, so it must have felt rich enough to publish this booklet showing many of its historic and then-current locomotives. The booklet, which I scanned from the Spokane Public … Continue reading
This 1940 booklet that I scanned from the Spokane Public Library Northwest Collection offers pre-war travelers four trips from Chicago to the Northwest. The first takes the Milwaukee to Seattle, a Canadian Pacific liner to Victoria and Vancouver, the Canadian … Continue reading
