Slightly smaller than a postcard and printed on similar material, this card must have been placed on dining tables rather than inserted into menus, as inserts tended to be flimsier. The menu offers a meal of roast beef hash, noodles, … Continue reading
As I’ve noted before, when the Budd Company built the 1956 Denver Zephyr, it hired the Paul Crét architectural firm to design the interiors, which in turn commissioned Kathryn Fligg (now Kathryn Fligg Lee) to do 115 paintings of wildflowers … Continue reading
“The nicest train I have ever ridden on,” “the most pleasant railroad trip ever experienced,” and “the wonderful smooth feeling of flying through space” are just a few of the “voluntary expressions of commendation” for the first vista-dome train reprinted … Continue reading
We’ve previously seen Burlington booklets advertising the Cody Road entrance into Yellowstone Park from 1917, 1937, and 1946. This one happens to be from 1930. Click image to download a 5.1-MB PDF of this 12-page booklet. Young men may also … Continue reading
Although Burlington trains didn’t come any closer to Glacier Park than Billings, about 400 miles away, it issued a number of postcards advertising Glacier. Of course, the Great Northern, which did go to Glacier, owned nearly half of the Burlington. … Continue reading
The Colorado & Southern Railway, which published this booklet in 1905, was a strange combination of a standard-gauge railroad trending north-south from Cheyenne, Wyoming to the Texas border and some narrow-gauge railroads trending east-west into the Colorado Rockies. The north-south … Continue reading
Two years after yesterday’s 1965 timetable, Burlington’s timetable lost another four pages. My 1966 timetable was 24 pages, so the four pages disappeared in 1967. All four pages were lost in the “complete schedules” section, mainly by the removal of … Continue reading
Burlington’s timetable lost four pages in the years between yesterday’s from 1960 and today’s. The general information and index pages were reduced from 3 to 2; condensed schedules went from 5 to 4 pages; while the complete schedules went from … Continue reading
This complete timetable has all of the trains that were on the 1957 timetable of principal trains plus several more. Among the lines too minor to be considered a “principal” route were St. Louis-Rock Island, St. Joseph-Lincoln, and several mixed … Continue reading
Here’s a wallet-sized calendar for 1958 featuring, on the side opposite the calendar, a Burlington locomotive passing a billboard showing a map of the railroad. The locomotive shown in the photo is numbered 9945A which, judging from photos, spent much … Continue reading
