Several years ago, I presented a painting of an SP&S E-7 locomotive prepared by General Motors design staff. I noted that the locomotive wasn’t actually delivered in those colors; instead, it was painted in the Great Northern Empire Builder colors. … Continue reading
Whoever collected the stationery presented over the last three days also brought home these soap wrappers that advertise Union Pacific’s “Cedar City Gateway” to the southern Utah parks. The first wrapper once contained “Colgate’s Floating Soap,” obviously Colgate’s answer to … Continue reading
This card shows demonstrator #291, which General Motors built as a demonstrator for F3 (but really the F2) in July, 1945. The F3 was going to be 150 hp more powerful than an FT, but in 1945 GM realized the … Continue reading
Here is some distinctive stationery used by a passenger who rode the Olympian Hiawatha in 1949. While the stationery itself is quite beautiful, the letter written on it makes clear that the writer was not, at the time, a passenger … Continue reading
I’ve only posted a few pocket calendars here in the past as they are generally more oriented to freight customers than to passengers. This one from the Great Northern mentions that the railroad is both “Great for Freight” and “Great … Continue reading
We’ve previously seen a photo of one of the replicas of an Astor medal that I found on line. I’ve since acquired my own copy of one of these replicas and the photos here are much clearer. Click image for … Continue reading
In 1743, French explorers from Quebec reached a point near what is now Pierre, South Dakota and buried a lead plate on a hill to claim the land for France. One hundred and seventy years later, three children playing on … Continue reading
Members of Great Northern’s 1925 Upper Missouri Historical Expedition apparently received a pin such as this one to wear during the trip. It probably made it easier to identify who was and who was not a member of the expedition … Continue reading
I’ve previously told how husband-wife artist team Martin & Flora DeMuth talked Canadian Pacific into letting them go on at least 15 cruises in exchange for doing artwork and (in Martin’s case) giving lectures for those cruises. Indeed, it is … Continue reading
We’ve seen Southern Pacific portfolios of photographs for the Overland Route, Shasta Route, and Valley & Coast Routes, so it stands to reason that there would be portfolios for the Sunset and Golden State routes. This is the first one … Continue reading
