I’ve seen this cover on booklets published by a variety of railroads, including the New York Central and Pennsylvania. This means the booklet was originally designed by the Expo, which left space for railroad logos the cover (which is actually … Continue reading
We’ve already seen a 20-page booklet presenting Burlington escorted tours for 1928. This booklet advertises the same tours but it fills 60 pages (including covers), printed on fancier paper with a more-elegant cover, and its photographs (which are absent from … Continue reading
Burlington’s 1965 calendar attempts to show the history of transportation in the American West in one picture. At the top is a stagecoach, pony express rider, and covered wagons on their way to Oregon. Below are five Burlington locomotives ranging … Continue reading
In 1962, Burlington still favored passenger trains enough to put the Twin Cities Zephyr on its calendar. But it realized that freight was important enough to put a freight train there as well. Click image to download a 1.2-MB PDF … Continue reading
Burlington introduced the vista-dome Denver Zephyr in late October, 1956, so it was an obvious candidate for a photo on the 1957 calendar. The most frequently used publicity photo of the train showed the rear end — the better to … Continue reading
Before Chicago Union Station opened in 1925, there was Chicago Union Depot, which opened in 1881. The depot served joint owners Pennsylvania, Burlington, Chicago & Alton, and what is now called the Milwaukee Road but was then called the St. … Continue reading
This 1962 Denver Zephyr menu shows columbine and deer vine on the front cover painting and baneberry and chickwood on the back. As previously noted, these are reproductions of paintings by Kathryn Fligg; the originals were mounted in the train’s … Continue reading
This menu advertises the Royal Gorge — the canyon, not the train — which, it says on the back, is on “the Denver & Rio Grande Western Railroad, with which the Burlington connects at Denver.” Dated 1944, the menu offers … Continue reading
The cover illustration of Old Faithful is imaginatively colored, but that goes along with some of Burlington’s other advertising in the 1930s. This menu has a code that reads, “7-No-2–43-42-6.” The “42-6” might indicate that this use printed in June … Continue reading
Issued by the Burlington Route in 1898, this booklet is in great shape for being more than 120 years old. It includes ten full-page photos and fourteen smaller photos or woodcuts. But most of it is text written by James … Continue reading
