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Fred Harvey Photochrome Postcards

Posted on January 22, 2015 by Train LoverNovember 29, 2014

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 cards were both more realistic looking and less expensive than printing eight to twenty colors on a card, as the Photochrom/Phostint process required. These Fred Harvey cards are probably from the late 1950s.

Click image to download a PDF of this postcard.

The first card shows a Santa Fe streamliner going around a curve. The back of the card says, “Grand Canyon National Park – Arizona – Santa Fe Streamliner Near Ribera.” In fact, Ribera is in New Mexico, not Arizona, so the mention of Grand Canyon National Park was gratuitous. The curve, shown on the aerial photo below, is not quite a double horseshoe as the card claims but does indicate that the train in the photo is ascending a pretty good grade.

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Fred Harvey Postcards of the 1930s

Posted on January 21, 2015 by Train LoverNovember 29, 2014

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 most if not all of the postcards shown here were printed by another company, probably Curt Teich.

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This white-bordered postcard showing Canyon de Chelly appears to be the oldest one here, as it uses Fred Harvey’s older logo and says Canyon de Chelly is in the Navaho Indian Reservation. In 1931, the canyon was made into a national monument, though still part of the reservation. Since this isn’t mentioned on the card, it is likely from the late 1920s or 1930.

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Fred Harvey Phostint Postcards

Posted on January 20, 2015 by Train LoverNovember 13, 2023

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 for a photograph or other image. Fred Harvey and the Detroit Publishing Company took full advantage of this.

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This map postcard shows the locations of Fred Harvey hotels and restaurants. In the white box at the center bottom of the card, later versions had the words, “I am at the place marked X today,” with space for a date.

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Fred Harvey Postcards from 1905

Posted on January 19, 2015 by Train LoverDecember 3, 2014

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 allowed people to write anything but an address on the back of the card. The cards therefore provide some white space below the photos for people to write on.

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The first postcard shows the Hotel Castenada in Las Vegas, New Mexico. Built in 1898, it was the first of the great Harvey House hotels. It had about 40 rooms, most of them without baths. Empty for many years, it was recently purchased by someone who has previously restored a Harvey House hotel in Winslow, Arizona.

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Southern Pacific Blotters

Posted on January 18, 2015 by Train LoverNovember 27, 2014

Here are five Southern Pacific blotters from the Dale Hastin collection. The first one, dated 1937, advertises “two famed trains to California,” the Sunset and the Argonaut. It lists SP agents in Birmingham and Chattanooga, neither of which were actually on the SP.

Click images to download PDFs of these blotters, which are 0.3 to 0.6 MB in size.

The second blotter doesn’t have a date but appears to also be from the 1930s. Directed to Austin residents, it advertises two trains a day to Houston, where travelers can meet the Sunset or Argonaut. The pitch, “Time is opportunity-Save it” appears ironic today as the 1936 timetable shows the midday train as having an average speed of under 33 mph while the overnight train’s average speed is about 25 mph.

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Southern Pacific Ticket Envelope

Posted on January 17, 2015 by Train LoverNovember 27, 2014

This envelope seems to be dated 1-67, a time when the railroad had gained a reputation of being anti-passenger. It had reduced service on most routes to at most one train a day, cutting the Shasta Daylight (which is nevertheless shown in the upper left on this envelope) in 1966. It also replaced the dining car on the Sunset Limited and certain other trains with an automat car which, passengers complained, ran out of food before the end of the trip.

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It took these measures not so much because it was anti-passenger but because it was losing more money on passenger service than any other western railroad, and had been suffering those losses since shortly after the end of World War II. The cost-cutting measures can be seen in this envelope which is printed in one color only instead of in multiple colors like those of many other railroads.

SP 1954 Timetable

Posted on January 16, 2015 by Train LoverNovember 26, 2014

Southern Pacific operated a lot of passenger trains in the 1950s. Most of the changes from the 1936 timetable to this one from 1954 have to do with streamlining of former heavyweight trains.

Click image to download a 31.4-MB PDF of this 48-page timetable.

The Sunset Route in 1954 was still served by the Sunset Limited and Argonaut. In addition, passengers between Houston and New Orleans could choose to take the overnight Acadian. Travelers between Houston and Dallas could choose from the streamlined Sunbeam, streamlined Hustler, or the heavyweight, overnight Owl.

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Plan Your Santa Barbara Vacation

Posted on January 15, 2015 by Train LoverNovember 26, 2014

“Santa Barbara is truly an all-year vacationland,” gushes this brief booklet from 1954. “Its temperature of 60 degrees (24-hour average throughout the year) is a delight to everyone.” Naturally, the best way to get there was on the Coast Daylight.

Click image to download a 2.0-MB PDF of this 8-page booklet.
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Sunset Route Maps and Description

Posted on January 14, 2015 by Train LoverDecember 11, 2021

This 1958 booklet finishes the series of along-the-way guides for each of SP’s “four great routes.” SP published an along-the-way guide for the Coast Daylight route, but it was in a very different format as can be seen in this post from 2012.

Click image to download an 10.3-MB PDF of this 16-page booklet.

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Overland Route Maps and Description

Posted on January 13, 2015 by Train LoverDecember 11, 2021

Like yesterday’s booklet, this one is dated 1951 and is the same format. The maps show several alternate routes: two across the Rockies in Wyoming between Sherman and Laramie; two across the mountains just west of Great Salt Sure, the parents would try to curb their teenage son or daughter’s activities, but this is something where they can getting viagra in australia help prescribe medications that can help with the issue. You don’t need a prescription for the treatment. cialis 100mg pills tadalafil generic cheapest Before the situation becomes worse, consult with a doctor regarding the cost as it get changes depend on location and clinic. The efficiency and affectivity of this drug has become capable to diminish the impotency affects by introducing revolutionary functional mechanism. 20mg levitra canada Lake; and two across the Sierras. The description doesn’t mention these alternate routes, however, which are just different tracks for ascending and descending the mountains.

Click image to download an 10.3-MB PDF of this 16-page booklet.