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This menu has a date but doesn’t say what train used it. The steam locomotive on the cover suggests that it wasn’t a zephyr. Tiny print on this menu reads, “12/47,” which I presume is the date it was printed, … Continue reading
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This menu is undated, but the front cover says it is for “The New Twin Zephyrs” while the back lists the name of each car in the “Train of the Gods” and the “Train of the Goddesses.” That suggests it … Continue reading
The Burlington Zephyr (later known as the Pioneer Zephyr) entered revenue service on November 11, 1934, on a route between Lincoln, Omaha, and Kansas City, and it remained on that route for most of its long life, being retired in … Continue reading
This 60-page booklet describes about two dozen dude ranches located near Cody, Wyoming. It also includes several pages on other attractions in the Cody area, including the Buffalo Bill Museum, the Cody Stampede (rodeo), and the Cody Road. There’s no … Continue reading
In August, 1927, someone on a Burlington Escorted Tour sent the following postcard from the Lake Hotel in Yellowstone to a friend in Chicago. “Will endeavor to tell you about this wonderfull Co. when I get back if language don’t … Continue reading
Burlington’s Zephyr was introduced at the 1934 Century of Progress Fair in Chicago, but that fair actually began in 1933. These postcards show some of Burlington’s exhibits in that first year. Click image to download a 184-KB PDF of this … Continue reading
While the cover of this booklet is not as avant-garde as the 1932 edition, the four colors it uses are a bit more realistic and give a rustic feeling absent from that earlier booklet. Inside, the pages are all trimmed … Continue reading
Although the 1934 escorted tour booklet has the same number of pages as the 1932 edition, the 1934 booklet is smaller: 6″x9″ vs. 8″x10″ in 1932. Inside, the text and photographs are very similar, but the 1932 booklet was trimmed … Continue reading
This brochure summarizes the escorted tours Burlington offered in 1933. While the escorted tour booklets of that period were 68 pages long, this brochure unfolds into the equivalent of six slightly larger pages. Click image to download a 1.6-MB PDF … Continue reading
These two brochures were stuffed into the same folder as yesterday’s Aristocrat brochure. The Blackhawk was an overnight train between Chicago and the Twin Cities and, unlike the Aristocrat, remained on the timetable for many years after the introduction of … Continue reading