We’ve previously seen east- and westbound versions of this guide from 1950 and a westbound one from 1949. Today’s is an eastbound one from 1949. The text of the 1949 and 1950 editions are similar but Great Northern’s conception of … Continue reading
We’ve previously seen a 1959 along-the-way brochure for the City of Portland that folded to about 4″ by 9″ and unfolded to 16″ by 13-1/2″. This one from 1957 has much the same content but is about 4-1/2″ by 7″ … Continue reading
Here are two more Western Star route guides, these being from 1965 and 1967. Except for changes in train times, the 1965 guide is similar to the 1963 guide, including the ads for the rail credit card and Big Mountain … Continue reading
As we have previously seen, the 1960s route guides for the Empire Builder consisted of an elaborate map that unfolded to be nearly three feet wide. These Western Star route guides cover the same ground in a brochure that is … Continue reading
For Amtrak’s first ten years, the Empire Builder went to Seattle but did not have a Portland section. That was rectified by the time this 1984 brochure was published. Like the Willamette Valley, I rode on the first run of … Continue reading
The North Coast Limited wasn’t included in Amtrak’s original route plan, but thanks to some political arm twisting by Montana Senator Mike Mansfield, it was added to Amtrak’s system little more than a month after Amtrak began operating trains. Amtrak … Continue reading
By 1968, the railroads operating the California Zephyr had changed the Vista-Dome Views booklet into a brochure. This might have made it less expensive to print, but it probably made it harder to use as it unfolded to an unwieldy … Continue reading
This one-page brochure provides very brief town-by-town descriptions of the route of the vista-dome North Coast Limited. A couple of years later, NP would publish a much-more beautiful full-color booklet of Scenic Highlights, but that too just contained brief descriptions … Continue reading
This brochure is undated but it is from about 1960. The text brags that the Canadian Pacific offered Canada’s only “dome” cars (for some reason, the brochure always puts dome in quotation marks), so it would be from after 1955 … Continue reading
This is a beautiful map, unfolding to be three feet long with graphics showing points of interest and topography, one-sentence descriptions of major cities, and the times the Empire Builder stopped in those cities in both eastbound and westbound directions. … Continue reading
