The booklet is less about the train named Phoebe Snow and more about the advertising icon for which the train was named. At the turn of the 20th century, the Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad burned anthracite coal to power … Continue reading
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The cover of this menu shows the Countess of Dufferin, the first locomotive in Manitoba (and, therefore, all of western Canada). The back of the menu carefully says the locomotive is “labelled C.P.R. No. 1.” In fact, as the Canadian … Continue reading
Nicholas Morant’s photo of the Canadian on Stoney Creek Bridge adorns this menu that was used on board the SS Assiniboia, one of Canadian Pacific’s Great Lakes steamers that ferried passengers, cars, and some cargo between Port Arthur (Thunder Bay) … Continue reading
The first three postcards today are very similar to the Fred Harvey photochromes shown yesterday, right down to the statement on two of them that they could be “Sent Courtesy of the Super Chief.” The only thing missing is the … Continue reading
Printers finally developed the four-color process well enough to use on postcards in 1939. The results are sometimes called Photochrome postcards, which is a bit of misnomer as the original multicolor process used by Detroit Photographic was called Photochrom. Photochrome … Continue reading
The Detroit Publishing Company, which printed yesterday’s postcards, went bankrupt in 1923. Though it continued to print postcards for Fred Harvey until 1932, it no longer employed photographers to add to its collection of images. Thus, it is likely that … Continue reading
In 1907, the Postal Service decided to allow people to use just half of the back of a postcard for an address, leaving the rest for a message. This allowed postcard companies to use the entire front of the card … Continue reading
Fred Harvey, who ran hotels and restaurants along the Santa Fe Railway as well as Santa Fe dining cars, put out hundreds of postcards for tourists to send home. These three cards were published in 1905, before the Postal Service … Continue reading
Like many railroad maps, the map is on one side while the other side advertises the railroad’s trains. This 1938 map advertises the railroad’s Four Great Routes, but also maps and pictures steamships from New Orleans to New York as … Continue reading
The Arizona Limited was a kind of semi-train: semi-streamlined, semi-daily, operated only half the year (actually just three-and-one-half months), and by two railroads using two train sets for only two years. Each Pullman-only train set consisted of a heavyweight Rock … Continue reading