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Except for the cover and the date, this brochure is identical to the 1959 Canadian brochure. The cover art is in the same style as a series of booklets Canadian Pacific issued about its hotels in 1960 and 1961. Click … Continue reading
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We’ve previously seen brochures about the Canadian from 1955, 1958, and an undated one that is probably from 1956 or 1957. Today’s brochure is dated 1959 and covers much of the same material. Click image to download a 4.1-MB PDF … Continue reading
Union Pacific inaugurated the Challenger to Los Angeles in 1936. In 1937, UP and SP began a similar train to San Francisco that became known as (though this brochure doesn’t say so) the San Francisco Challenger. As shown in the … Continue reading
By 1958, off-season ridership on the Shasta Daylight had fallen so low that Southern Pacific applied to the Interstate Commerce Commission to reduce it to three-day-a-week service. Apparently, it didn’t get permission to do so, as it sent this notice … Continue reading
In 1957, Union Pacific briefly tested the General Motors Aerotrain between Los Angeles and Las Vegas, calling it the City of Las Vegas. According to this brochure, the train operated from December (Wikipedia says on the 18th), 1956 to September … Continue reading
A photo by Byron Harmon presented here yesterday showed a Soo Line observation car passing over a Canadian Pacific locomotive emerging from the lower spiral tunnel in the Canadian Rockies. The Soo Line car, I suggested, was part of the … Continue reading
“The nicest train I have ever ridden on,” “the most pleasant railroad trip ever experienced,” and “the wonderful smooth feeling of flying through space” are just a few of the “voluntary expressions of commendation” for the first vista-dome train reprinted … Continue reading
As I’ve noted before, when Northern Pacific introduced the streamlined North Coast Limited in 1948, it left it on the same timetable as the previous heavyweight train. That kept it at a severe disadvantage compared with the Empire Builder and … Continue reading
This brochure advertises the short-lived all-Pullman train that Northern Pacific operated from Minneapolis-St. Paul to Gardiner in the park season, which would have been June 16 to September 15 in the year the brochure was issued. The six-panel brochure includes … Continue reading
Northern Pacific inaugurated the North Coast Limited in 1900, so 1924, when this brochure was produced, was the 25th year of operation. This six-panel brochure includes a dozen photos, a list of NP passenger representatives, and a letter to travel … Continue reading