This large, spiral-bound phonebook was published in 1939 by the Union Pacific Women’s Travel Department. However, it seems to be aimed at young boys as much as their mothers, as it is filled with black-and-white pictures of steam locomotives, Diesels, … Continue reading
These blotters from the Dale Hastin collection aren’t dated, but most seem to be from before 1900. PDFs of the blotters are about 500 to 700 KB in size. This blotter shows the Dakota territory, suggesting it is from before … Continue reading
Completed in 1897, Kansas City Southern‘s line from Kansas City to Port Arthur, Texas, may have carried a lot of freight, but it didn’t attract many passengers. However, in 1939 KCS merged with the Louisiana & Arkansas Railway, creating a … Continue reading
The mainline of the Missouri-Kansas-Texas or Katy railroad went from Omaha and Kansas City to Dallas, San Antonio, and Houston. Although it also had a branch to St. Louis, the portion from St. Louis to Oklahoma was circuitous and slow. … Continue reading
In 1935, Boston & Maine introduced the Flying Yankee, a streamlined train that was a copy of the Burlington’s original Zephyr. The train was used for service between Boston and Bangor, Maine. This postcard is postmarked 1948, showing that B&M … Continue reading
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
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
