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We’ve seen a booklet with the same cover as this one from 1950. This one is dated 1955. For the first 33 pages, there are almost no differences between the two. Even the graphic of a steam-powered passenger train on … Continue reading
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I’ve previously written about the technologies that made streamliners possible, including Diesels, metallurgy, and air conditioning. One other technology worth mentioning is the paint or, more specifically, the lacquers that gave most streamliners their bright colors and brand identities. Even … Continue reading
Using steam locomotives and heavyweight cars, the Chicago & Northwestern introduced the 400 in 1935 to compete with the Burlington Twin Zephyrs on the Chicago-Twin Cities route. In 1939, it re-equipped the train with Diesels and streamlined cars. Click image … Continue reading
Here are three more Byron Harmon real photo postcards that seem intriguing. First is a photo of a passenger train emerging from the lower spiral tunnel. Above it are some cars that appear to be part of the same train, … Continue reading
Here are some examples of Byron Harmon’s photos showing sights around Banff. All of these are hand colored; black-and-white versions of all of them exist but I only have the color versions. Click image to download a 225-KB PDF of … Continue reading
The first pair of Byron Harmon postcards today shows both the entrance and the exit of the lower spiral tunnel. Unlike the trains in yesterday’s postcards, this one is traveling westbound. Click image to download a 134-KB PDF of this … Continue reading
Byron Harmon didn’t worked for the Canadian Pacific except, perhaps, on a contract basis. CP used one of his photos on a menu cover but mostly relied on other photographers. But for many years he was the leading photographer in … Continue reading
The three railroads that operated the California Zephyr issued numerous postcards in the two decades that train ran. Here are a few we haven’t seen before. Click image to download a 244-KB PDF of this postcard. The Alco locomotives shown … Continue reading
Today our postcard journey on the Western Pacific takes us east of the Sierra Nevada and back in time to the era of lithographic postcards. Click image to download a 175-KB PDF of this postcard. This card says “near Pilot, … Continue reading
All but one of yesterday’s postcards were lithographically printed based on black-and-white photos. Today’s cards are black-and-white photos themselves. I usually prefer color, but after studying the often muddy and sometimes heavily retouched pictures from yesterday there’s something refreshing and … Continue reading