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While not quite as colorful as Bryce, the Grand Canyon and Zion are both awesome in their own right. These Union Pacific postcards range from about 1928 to the 1950s or 1960s. Click image to download a 156-KB PDF of … Continue reading
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From Arches to Zion, I’ve been to most of the major national parks in the West. But after my first visit to Bryce last fall, it is easily my favorite. I took nearly 3,000 photos in two days and didn’t … Continue reading
Today’s postcards feature the Beehive State, and range in dates from the early 1920s to 1955 or 1956. The first card was lithographically printed (dating it to before 1930) and is not railroad issue, but I’m including it as I’ve … Continue reading
These four postcards present scenes from Colorado in three different styles. These styles can help identify the era in which each card was issued. Click image to download a 262-KB PDF of this postcard. First, a card showing a lily … Continue reading
Union Pacific issued lots of postcards, and I’ll be presenting nearly six dozen of them over fourteen (not necessarily consecutive) days. Today, we’ll look at a few cards overtly advertising UP trains and routes. Click image to download a 180-KB … Continue reading
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
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