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This looks like an envelope that would be used by a conductor, but the labels on it make it appear to be something that would be given to a coach passenger. The top part is a hat check, meant to … Continue reading
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Unlike yesterday’s, this piece includes the entire calendar. However, I’ve only scanned the first page showing January, 1957 (and, in smaller print, December 1956, and February 1956). Click image to download a 1.9-MB PDF of this calendar. The calendar came … Continue reading
This looks like a poster but it is actually the top of a calendar. Unfortunately, someone cut the bottom off before I acquired it. The calendar is presumably for 1953, the year the Super Domes first appeared on the Hiawathas. … Continue reading
Here are several items that could have come from a single, somewhat circuitous, trip in around 1960. (But they didn’t; I received them from multiple sources.) Click any image to download a PDF of that item. First, you get an … Continue reading
This oddly dimensioned folder contains two framable portraits of the Jupiter and 119, the locomotives that met at the Last Spike ceremony in 1869. Unfortunately, the portraits are printed on some sort of metallic material such as aluminum foil, creating … Continue reading
Union Pacific issued this paint guide for passenger and freight stations in 1956. The guide includes color chips and references to Pittsburgh paint numbers. Exteriors were to be off-white with Kentucky green trim and wainscoting. Station agents were given a … Continue reading
Except for the Winged Streamliner logo in place of a rose, this score pad is nearly identical to one we’ve seen for the Portland Rose. Both of them are nearly identical to one we’ve seen for the Great Northern, which … Continue reading
Santa Fe produced wall calendars from the early 1900s through 1993, and all of them after 1914 featured paintings of the Southwest or Southwest Indians by one of the Chicago or Taos painters cultivated by the railway. From the early … Continue reading
For the first 27 years after its completion in 1910, the SP&S Railway was powered by hand-me-down locomotives from its parents, the Great Northern and Northern Pacific. But in 1937 and 1938, it took delivery of its first brand-new locomotives, … Continue reading
In addition to the menus, our 1951 tourist also thoughtfully brought home this placemat and napkin. The placemat shows an extremely inauthentic Indian wigwam and decorations around the edge. Is the animal that was shot by an arrow a wolf? … Continue reading