US Rail Nostalgia

[Rob]

Hey, just sharing this with anyone who likes nostalgia...

Stumbled upon this 1938 page from the Brooklyn Daily Eagle, and am fascinated by the abundance of references to rail travel.

Mentioned roads are Canadian Pacific, Rock Island, Lehigh Valley, Great Northern Railway, Chicago and North Western, Dominion Atlantic, New York Central, and mention of trains includes the Empire Builder, Golden State, Cascades, 400, and a current favorite of mine... The Blue Comet

What a wonderful time this must have been for the US traveller.

The pdf is 1.02mb...

I'm in love with the lady advertising the Great Lakes All-Expense Cruise.

I found it here.

Hope you enjoy the site as much as I have. :mop:

~R~

 

[SPNGTyler]

Another thing about the old US and railroads...

I have a 1940 US atlas, which also by the way covers a little bit of the world, and instead of showing interstates and Highways like todays maps, it shows where the rails run and what railroad owned them!

It has come in great handy ness when we see an old nearly unused, or abandoned, line (There are quite a few in N Texas), we just look at the book.

 

[rjhowie]

Well I think somewhere in my attic here in Glasgow, UK, I should have a National Assoc of American Railroads Timetable. It was for the later 1950's and what a book! It is nearly 3 inches thick and lists every rail company in the US, Canada, Mexico even Cuba before the Revolution. From tiny companies of a barely a mile two right up to the giants. All before the great decline and move to cars and planes, etc. I do recall someone here a couple of years back expressing an interest in it but don't know who it was now.

Must really do a search in the jumble up there to see if is still around. When you look at that and what is ow it is unbelievable! A real piece of railway history and memorabilia.