In 1980, Amtrak persuaded the state of Oregon to subsidize two trains a day between Eugene and Portland. Known as the Willamette Valley Express, the train lasted 17 months before the state, hard pressed by a major recession, stopped funding … Continue reading
Union Pacific introduced the Challenger, its low-cost train to Los Angeles, in June, 1935. This brochure must have been issued about that time or soon after. Although it is undated, times shown in the brochure for trains arriving in Las … Continue reading
On April 27, 1947, Illinois Central inaugurated its all-coach, daytime train, the City of New Orleans. The train left each terminus at 8:00 am and arrived at the other end a few minutes before midnight. Click image to download a … Continue reading
This six-panel brochure encouraging people to take the Northern Pacific “to or from California” is rare in that it promotes the “all-Pullman North Coast Limited.” NP made the train all-Pullman in mid-1909, then added a coach again in 1912. NP … Continue reading
We’ve previously seen a 1958 brochure advertising Great Northern’s dome-laden Empire Builder. This undated brochure is similar but from a year or two earlier. The two share many of the same photos and graphics, but the covers are completely different, … Continue reading
After putting the New Oriental Limited into service on June 1, 1924, Great Northern sent a variety of promotional letters, cards and brochures to members of the public. We’ve already seen several of these including one claiming outright that it … Continue reading
In addition to blotters, GN sent out brochures such as this one (which I found at the Minnesota History Center) inviting people to compare the railway’s new Oriental Limited with a vintage 1861 train consisting of the William Crooks, two … Continue reading
When this brochure was published in 1949, the Pennsylvania had five trains a day between New York and St. Louis. Three had both coaches and sleepers: the American (which had through cars to Tulsa on the Frisco), the Penn-Texas (which … Continue reading
In 1949, when this brochure was issued, the Pennsylvania had managed to close the time disadvantage it had from the B&O. From Washington to Chicago, the B&O’s route was 767 miles while the Pennsylvania’s was 837, but both the Capitol … Continue reading
The Pennsylvania had a dozen trains a day between New York and Chicago in 1929, declining to as few as eight during the Depression. In 1937, it added a new train, the General. A railroad with that many trains on … Continue reading
