Some time after 1948 — I’m guessing around 1950 — a company called Alex Dulfer Lithographing issued a new set of 16 color photos of the Shasta Route. Like the National Color Press set, these would have been sold in train stations and on board Southern Pacific trains. Unlike the National Color Press set, the colors in these photos appear much more realistic.
Click image to download a 16.5-MB PDF of this photo set.
Also unlike my version of the National Color Press edition, this one includes an actual photo of a train, which of course is the Shasta Daylight by Odell Lake, perhaps Southern Pacific’s favorite spot to photograph the train. Since the train began service in 1949, it wouldn’t have been available to include in the 1948 photo set. Continue reading