This stationery is unusual for its size and format. While most on-board stationary is folded in half–my scans only show the side that has printing–this stationery is unfolded. While most on-board stationery discreetly prints the name of the train and/or … Continue reading
This letterhead proclaims the Burlington Route as “The National Park Line.” The Burlington could reach Rocky Mountain and Yellowstone parks directly, and via its connections with the Great Northern and Northern Pacific it also reached Glacier and Mt. Rainier parks. … Continue reading
Inaugurated at the same time as the Black Hawk and Aristocrat, the Ak-Sar-Ben (Nebraska spelled backwards) connected Chicago with Omaha and Lincoln. I don’t have any letterhead for the Ak-Sar-Ben, but here is stationery for the Ak-Sar-Ben Zephyr, which sort-of … Continue reading
Introduced in 1930 as Burlington’s premiere train in the hotly competitive Chicago-Denver market, the Aristocrat lasted barely more than a decade. While the Aristocrat required 26 hours to go from Chicago to Denver, the Denver Zephyr, which began operating in … Continue reading
In January, 1930, the Burlington added three new luxury trains to its schedules: the Chicago-Lincoln Ak-Sar-Ben, the Chicago-Denver Aristocrat, and the Chicago-Twin Cities Blackhawk. The timing was obviously poor: the trains had been ordered before the stock market crash and … Continue reading
This letter was posted on May 14, 1929, from “Mother” to “Master Peter Gantenbein” of Portland, Oregon. As she was writing the previous day, Mother and Dad were riding the Oriental Limited by Glacier Park less than a month before … Continue reading
Although the Santa Fe had special stationery for its premiere trains such as the Super Chief and even secondary trains such as the Kansas City-Galveston Ranger, it must have used this somewhat generic stationery for some of its lesser trains. … Continue reading
This stationery doesn’t have a train name, but the font makes it plain that it is for a pre-war heavyweight train. Assuming that the railway’s premiere trains such as the Chief and California Limited had their own stationery, this stationery … Continue reading
The Continental Limited was the Union Pacific’s secondary train from Chicago to the Pacific Coast. Early in its life, the train foreshadowed the late 1960s “city of everywhere” by going to all three of Union Pacific’s coastal cities, with the … Continue reading
As previously noted, in November, 1926, Union Pacific speeded up the schedules of the Overland Limited and Los Angeles Limited from 68 to 63 hours and supposedly completely reequipped both trains. At the same time, it inaugurated the Gold Coast … Continue reading
