Burlington’s pre-war dude ranch booklet focused on ranches around Cody, Wyoming. This one not only lists 50 ranches in that area (twice as many as the 1931 booklet), it also includes more than 30 ranches in Colorado, more than a … Continue reading
Here’s a menu cover with a beautiful photo of two riders in front of what is probably Bear Lake in Rocky Mountain National Park. Unfortunately, the menu is blank, but I’ve seen other menus with this cover dated 1946, so … Continue reading
From Wagon Wheels to Stainless Steel provided a history and along-the-way guide to the Burlington’s Chicago-Denver corridor. This similarly titled booklet does the same for the railroad’s Kansas City-Omaha-Lincoln route. Both of these booklets were printed in 1945. Click image … Continue reading
When the Twin Zephyrs began operating in 1936, they took 6-1/2 hours between Chicago and St. Paul, for an average speed of 66 mph. In 1940, however, the Burlington speeded up the westbound Morning Zephyr to just 6 hours, for … Continue reading
The Mt. Rushmore memorial was still under construction when the photographs for this booklet were taken. The faces of Washington, Jefferson, and Lincoln were done, but the sculptor had barely begun Roosevelt’s face. He completed it before he died in … Continue reading
After the pastels used on the covers of the previous several tour books, the bright orange and purple on the 1937 edition is startling, but it must have been highly visible on travel agency shelves. The number of tours is … Continue reading
Using the fourth set of streamlined Zephyr equipment made for the Burlington, this train was inaugurated in October, 1935 between St. Louis and Burlington, where it connected with the Aristocrat. In keeping with the theme, the power car was named … Continue reading
In November, 1934, Burlington put the first Diesel-powered streamliner to work between Kansas City and Lincoln. With the addition of several more zephyrs in 1935, the railroad renamed the original the Pioneer Zephyr in November, 1936. So this menu card … Continue reading
I haven’t seen a 1933 escorted tour booklet yet, but we know from the 1934 edition that the format was reduced (again) to 6″x9″, though the page count remained the same at 68 pages (including covers). The 1935 version uses … Continue reading
Here we have the same cover as the 1930 booklet sans yellow background color. It is also the same as 1932 except the grey stripes are brown in the latter year. Click image to download a 39.5-MB PDF of this … Continue reading
