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We’ve seen this cover before, with slightly different colors, on the 1932 booklet, but it is very different from the 1929 version. The page count is the same as the 1929 edition, but the size of the booklet has grown … Continue reading
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Burlington Escorted Tours published a 68-page booklet (including covers) for 1929, but only two of those pages dealt with Alaska. The booklet advised people interesting in going to that territory to “Ask for special Alaska booklet giving full details and … Continue reading
This little booklet summarized the five escorted tours that were described in detail in yesterday’s booklet. This booklet has an unusual design and the PDF is best viewed in two-page mode. The front cover is 6 inches wide by 5 … Continue reading
We’ve previously seen this cover on a 1929 edition of the Burlington Escorted Tours booklet. While this one is 48 pages and includes half-tone photos, the 1929 version was expanded to 68 pages and some of the photos were colorized. … Continue reading
“By all means, if you can spare the time, make your minimum” tour of Yellowstone last “twice five days, two weeks would be better, a month would be ideal,” urges this 1917 booklet. The booklet then goes on to describe … Continue reading
In 1929, Burlington and Santa Fe teamed up with the Rio Grande and Western Pacific to offer escorted tours from Chicago to the West Coast. We’ve already seen the 20-page tour booklet for winter, 1929, which advertised 21-day tours leaving … Continue reading
Despite having purchased $5 million worth of new or refurbished passenger cars since 1962, ridership dwindled on the Kansas City Southern, so this 1968 brochure announces that the railroad was discontinuing all passenger service. The brochure blamed the decline in … Continue reading
The Golden Gate Exposition ended in 1940, but the Burlington-Rio Grande-Western Pacific train named after it was so successful that the railroads kept it going. This attractive train booklet creatively uses just three colors of ink–blue, orange, and black–on most … Continue reading
Items from near the end of the Silver Age often betray a feeling of “How the mighty have fallen!” That’s especially true for this 44-page booklet advertising Burlington (and GN and NP) tours for 1969. Despite the Depression, Burlington Escorted … Continue reading
This booklet was passed out during “educational tours” for students who (judging from the photos) were in what we would today call middle school or junior high school. It describes the Burlington’s freight operations as well as passenger trains in … Continue reading