Every time I think my collection of Union Pacific wrap-around color photo menus is nearing completion, I find something new. Here is a 1957 City of Portland breakfast menu featuring something I’ve never before seen on a Union Pacific menu … Continue reading
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This is the second booklet advertising the Pacific Great Eastern shown here; the first one was dated after 1959, as it mentions Alaska becoming a state in that year. This one is from several years before, as the railway described … Continue reading
Here are a couple of railroad-issued postcards featuring the Canadian. The first has the familiar painting by Chesley Bonestell. CP used this painting in magazine ads, on menu covers, and in brochures. Click image to download a 123-KB PDF of … Continue reading
This postcard folder was never posted and has no date. However, one of the pictures shows what appears to be a semi-streamlined steam locomotive, probably a Royal Hudson. Since these locomotives were built in 1938, the folder must have been … Continue reading
This postcard folder was mailed from Vancouver, BC, to Portland, Oregon in 1928. Because of the way the cover is attached to the fold-out cards, I had to include two copies of the first page, so the PDF ends up … Continue reading
This collection of 20 hand-colored postcards was issued by the Gowen Sutton Company of Vancouver, BC, no doubt with the cooperation of the Canadian Pacific as most of the photos are of CPR trains, tracks, and hotels. Frank Gowen preferred … Continue reading
George Stephen and Donald Smith were the two primary financiers behind construction of the Canadian Pacific Railway, and the nation honored them by naming prominent peaks in the Canadian Rockies after them. Both were made peers of the British Empire … Continue reading
Here are some more Fred Harvey postcards from my collection. The first is from the linen era, meaning it was probably published in the 1930s, and shows the Spanish Peaks in south central Colorado. These mountains were visible from Santa … Continue reading
Rock Island introduced the Budd-built, GMC-powered Rockets in 1937, and this postcard is a variation of one we previously seen. It seems to be older as it only shows one headlight on the TA locomotive while the other one shows … Continue reading
All of the photos in today’s postcards are taken from nearly the same spot of different eras of passenger trains in Colorado’s Royal Gorge. The first shows a moonlit-train passing through the gorge with no sign of a suspension bridge … Continue reading