This 1951 brochure unfolds to be 32 inches long and provides a station-by-station description of the trip from Portland to Oakland and San Francisco. At the time the brochure was made, passengers still rode a Southern Pacific ferry from Oakland … Continue reading
This 1959 brochure is a companion to a City of Los Angeles brochure published in the same year. The railroad still published full, 48-page along-the-way booklets for the entire system, but apparently hoped it could save money by giving some … Continue reading
This little along-the-way brochure is dated February 1954 and includes several of New York Central’s major routes in west-to-east format: Chicago-Buffalo via either Toledo or Detroit; Cleveland-Cincinnati; Cleveland-St. Louis; Cincinnati-Chicago; Albany-Boston; and Buffalo-New York. Click image to download a 2.5-MB … Continue reading
This is a post-war update of yesterday’s 1931 along-the-way booklet. Whereas yesterday’s covered the route from New York to St. Louis, this one covers the “one-thousand-mile journey” from New York to Chicago by “Diesel-Electric Streamliner.” Click image to download a … Continue reading
The B&O published various versions of this little booklet for many years. This particular edition says “New York-St. Louis,” implying that a different version came out for New York to Chicago. The 1931 date indicates that it was before air … Continue reading
Here’s the companion piece to Canadian Pacific’s Eastward Across Canada. The eastward version is dated 1955 and has “highlights” about the railway from 1953. This one is undated but it has highlights from 1960, so it seems reasonable that this … Continue reading
This 32-page booklet includes numerous full-color photos of sights and destinations along the route of the Canadian Pacific. As an along-the-way route guide, it is designed for eastbound travel; instead of just saying, “Westbound travelers should read this from back … Continue reading
Nine years after the 48-page 1950 Along the Union Pacific booklet, UP published this brief (effectively six 4″x9″ panels printed back to back) brochure as the along-the-way guide for the City of Los Angeles. This brochure apparently also served as … Continue reading
Eighteen momentous years had passed since Union Pacific’s 1932 along-the-way booklet that was presented here a few days ago, but you wouldn’t hardly know it from reading the 1950 edition. The newer edition is four pages longer, and most of … Continue reading
This 44-page booklet is loaded with well over one hundred black-and-white photos and roughly 40 sketches illustrating various historic times or events. The text describes not only the main UP routes from Omaha to Ogden, Ogden to Los Angeles, and … Continue reading
