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Here’s a Union Pacific menu we haven’t seen before. We have seen the color photo on a 1929 menu in the Art Nouveau series. Most of the cover photos from that series were also used in this series, which I … Continue reading
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About a year ago, I posted a 1928 Great Northern Railway brochure advertising air service between Minneapolis and Chicago. This potentially saved passengers aboard the eastbound Oriental Limited several hours of their journey. Since the Pennsylvania Railroad didn’t start joint … Continue reading
Helen Hruska carefully saved programmes for each day’s activities on the Greenoch-Montreal voyage, so I owe it to her to post them here. Most of them list music, films, dances, and games held each late afternoon and evening of the … Continue reading
Although the Empress of Scotland went from Montreal to Liverpool, Helen and Vilma Hruska got off in Greenock, Scotland, on July 5, a day before the ship arrived in Liverpool. They returned on the same ship, leaving August 21 and … Continue reading
Southern Pacific issued several portfolios like this one with names like Scenic Grandeur of the West and Scenic California. Each contained 16 color or colorized photos “suitable for framing.” The ones we’ve previously seen that are dated 1943 say they … Continue reading
It’s always been a bit of a puzzle to me why the Great Northern didn’t use the “as-delivered” paint scheme for its E-7 Diesels when it put those locomotives into service pulling the 1947 streamlined Empire Builder. The orange-and-green colors … Continue reading
In about 1961, Union Pacific began using the phrase “automated rail way” in its advertising and on its box cars. The letters on the boxcars were often in eight different colors, though this notepad only uses two. Since “rail” was … Continue reading
The El Escalante Hotel menus shown in the last two days, whose covers we hadn’t seen before, came with these three menus whose covers we have seen before. I’m including with them the envelope that could have been used (but … Continue reading
Our Detroit knight collected one more item on his trip back from the 1949 mason’s convention: a combination itinerary-map from the Santa Fe. The itinerary has room for a nineteen-leg trip, with spaces for the railroad, train number, dates, arrival … Continue reading
Seven years ago, I noted the strange fact that the North Coast Limited went over the Chicago & North Western between 1911 and 1918. This is peculiar because Northern Pacific owned almost half of the Burlington and for most of … Continue reading