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The cover of the 1928 booklet has the same image and typography as the 1927 edition, but the addition of two colors, orange and blue, make for a more attractive cover as well as testify to the success of the … Continue reading
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If you had picked up a Northern Pacific Yellowstone National Park booklet in 1926 or 1927 and asked for more information about Burlington Escorted Tours, they might have given you this 16-page booklet. According to the introduction, an even longer, … Continue reading
Previously, I noted that Union Pacific published travel booklets for, among other places, Rocky Mountain National Park. I don’t have one of UP’s booklets for that park, but here is a 1924 booklet about the park from the Burlington. Click … Continue reading
This blotter advertising Glacier National Park was distributed by the Burlington Route. While many blotters are printed in only one or two colors, this one has a beautiful, four-color image of St. Mary’s Lake with Going to the Sun Mountain … Continue reading
As previously noted, despite celebrating its 75th anniversary in 1925, the Burlington Route declared that its 100th anniversary was in 1949. Here is a postcard noting that “Burlington was first to operate a railway postoffice car; first to inaugurate a … Continue reading
When Burlington replaced the 1936 Twin Cities Zephyr (the trains of the gods and goddesses) with the vista-dome Twin Cities Zephyr in 1947, it put the 1936 trains to work between Chicago and Lincoln, via Omaha. The re-christened Nebraska Zephyr … Continue reading
The fourth Zephyr built, after the original Zephyr and the Twin Zephyrs, was the Mark Twain Zephyr, which operated between St. Louis and Burlington, Iowa via Hannibal (Samuel Clemens hometown). Burlington had not yet started to name all its stainless-steel … Continue reading
This letterhead proclaims the Burlington Route as “The National Park Line.” The Burlington could reach Rocky Mountain and Yellowstone parks directly, and via its connections with the Great Northern and Northern Pacific it also reached Glacier and Mt. Rainier parks. … Continue reading
When Burlington inaugurated the vista-dome Twin Zephyrs in 1947, it moved the 1936 edition of the Twin Zephyrs to Chicago-Lincoln service, renaming them the Nebraska Zephyrs. The engines and cars were still named after Greek and Roman gods. The best … Continue reading
Inaugurated at the same time as the Black Hawk and Aristocrat, the Ak-Sar-Ben (Nebraska spelled backwards) connected Chicago with Omaha and Lincoln. I don’t have any letterhead for the Ak-Sar-Ben, but here is stationery for the Ak-Sar-Ben Zephyr, which sort-of … Continue reading