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1935 Summer Tours

Posted on November 12, 2014 by Train LoverJuly 1, 2015

“This is THE Year for a Western Vacation,” proclaims this booklet. “Western railway and Pullman fares have never been lower,” it explains, adding that, “thanks to air conditioning” passengers will enjoy “travel comfort such as you have never experienced before.”

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The booklet was right about the prices, which had dropped by nearly 20 percent since the 1932 summer tours guide. In 1932, a 12-day tour to Yellowstone and the Royal Gorge was $187 ($2,600 in today’s dollars); in 1935 it was just $158 ($2,130 in today’s dollars). A 13-day tour to Southern Utah parks and the Royal Gorge was $220 ($3,075) in 1932; but just $184 ($2,500) in 1935. (All prices are for a single occupant in a lower berth; double occupancy in hotel rooms.)

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Along the Union Pacific System: 1932

Posted on November 11, 2014 by Train LoverOctober 31, 2014

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 Green River to Portland, but also Kansas City to Cheyenne, Ogden to Butte and Yellowstone, Pendleton to Spokane, and Portland to Seattle.

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The “Union Pacific System,” explains the inside back cover, consists not only of the Union Pacific Railroad (Omaha to Ogden), but the Oregon Short Line (Green River to Huntington, Oregon), Oregon-Washington Railroad and Navigation (Huntington to Portland and Spokane), Los Angeles and Salt Lake, and St. Joseph and Grand Island Railway. Like some other rail publications of the era, this one has the “front cover” that is pictured above on the back.

Vacations Without Vexations

Posted on November 10, 2014 by Train LoverOctober 31, 2014

This brochure offered Los Angeleans a seven-day, eight-night escorted tour of Yellowstone Park. The tour included a full day each at Old Faithful, Yellowstone Lake, the Grand Canyon of the Yellowstone, and Mammoth Hot Springs. Escorted tours left L.A. every other Saturday in late June, July, August, and early September, 1930, for a total of seven tours.

Click image to download a 3.6-MB PDF of this three-panel brochure which opens up into a 24″x9″ sheet.

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Even More Paired Postcards

Posted on November 9, 2014 by Train LoverOctober 31, 2014

Here are four more UP postcards that were once paired but have been divided along the perforations. The first one shows a hand-colored and heavily retouched photo of Boulder Dam. Since the dam began operations in 1936, the postcard must date no earlier than that year. The postcard is based on this photo by aerial photographer Robert Spence.

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The backs of all these cards have the UP’s Overland Route logo, which dates the card between 1933 and 1941. Thus, this card must have been issued between 1936 and 1941.

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Union Pacific Postcards

Posted on November 7, 2014 by Train LoverOctober 26, 2014

These postcards were either sold or (more likely) given away in pairs, allowing people to separate them along the perforations before writing and mailing them to friends and relatives. The two cards that make up this pair include photos of Mt. Rainier taken by Asahel Curtis and of Multnomah Falls taken by Arthur Prentiss.

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We’ve already seen the Mt. Rainier photo on this 1929 menu. We’ve also seen the Multnomah Falls photo as a single postcard. Arthur Prentiss, the photographer, had joined Portland photographer Benjamin Gifford to form the firm of Gifford-Prentiss in 1917. Gifford retired in 1920, but his son Ralph continued in the business (though not the partnership with Prentiss), taking (for example), the photo of Mt. Hood on the back of the Mt. Rainier menu and (probably) this photo of the Columbia River Gorge. Though just six years younger than Benjamin Gifford, Prentiss continued in commercial photography at least until 1932 when he took this photo of the opening of a highway bridge across the Rogue River in Gold Beach, Oregon.

Colorado for the Tourist

Posted on November 6, 2014 by Train LoverMay 30, 2023

This 1914 booklet appears to be a direct ancestor of the escorted tours booklets that Union Pacific started publishing in the 1920s. This one does not include escorted tours but does list a few hotels and rates. More than half of the 68-page booklet, however, is devoted to photos of the region.

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The booklet also contains a helpful list of provisions that a party of eight would need to camp for six weeks, including 4 bricks of cheese, 2 gallons of maple syrup, 25 pounds of bacon, and 25 pounds of dried apricots. Also on the list are 10 pounds of butter, three small hams, and a 3 pound pail of lard.

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Weber Canyon Tunnel Number Three

Posted on November 5, 2014 by Train LoverNovember 1, 2014

This postcard wasn’t issued by the Union Pacific, but it shows the rail line and it is fun to trace the history of the card and the scene it shows. This particular postcard says that it shows Tunnel No. 3 in Weber Canyon, Utah.

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The hand-colored postcard was based on the black-and-white photo, below, that was taken by the British-born photographer Charles Savage. Savage had documented construction of the Union Pacific and also took photos of the completion of the transcontinental railroad at Promontory Summit.

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Union Pacific Blotters

Posted on November 4, 2014 by Train LoverNovember 27, 2014

Here are four more blotters from the Dale Hastin collection. Only one is dated, but all have the “Union Pacific System” logo which dates from 1914 through 1932.

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The first blotter makes the tepid claim that “only Union Pacific offers you such service to California” without actually saying what that service is, other than the “largest fleet of daily trains.” Like many blotters, this one keeps costs down by being printed in a single color.

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Rio Grande Blotters

Posted on November 3, 2014 by Train LoverOctober 25, 2014

Dale Hastin of Denver, Colorado collects rail memorabilia and especially blotters. She offered to let me post items from her collection of blotters, so during a recent visit to Colorado I scanned many of the blotters that related to passenger service or were particularly colorful–around 325 in all.

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Here, from her collection, are three psychedelically colored blotters issued by the Rio Grande Railroad in the mid-1930s. The first blotter mentions air conditioning, which means they are later than 1931, and the Scenic Limited and Panoramic, which means they are from before 1939 when the Exposition Flyer replaced the Panoramic. Although the Panoramic operated before 1931, it didn’t run from late 1931 through 1934, so the blotter must be from 1934 through 1938.

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