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Canada: Shorter Canadian railroads; Excursion and touring trains
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Canada: Canadian Pacific
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Includes train(s): The Canadian; others. Includes (selected items): photographs; manufacturers brochures: Budd RDC, Budd Dome Car, Budd delivers 173 various cars, Electromet (metals) (1950s).
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Duluth, Missabe and Iron Range Railway Company; Elgin, Joliet and Eastern Railway; Erie-Lackawanna Railroad Company; Erie Railroad Company
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Includes train(s): The Lake Cities; Erie Limited; Atlantic Express; The Phoebe Snow. Includes photographs. Includes (selected items): one item for DM&IR: 1957 letter and photograph of Budd RDC coach car. One item for EJ&ER: 1947 letter and freight diesel bulletin. Several items for Erie railroads.
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Canada: Canadian Pacific
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Includes train(s): The Canadian; The Royal York; The Dominion. Includes brochures: "Announcing The Royal York, new lightweight, semi-streamlined, steam train with air-conditioned coaches between Toronto and Detroit." Jubilee locomotive described (1936); "The Canadian Streamliner and other Canadian Pacific Equipment." (1960s); "Trains...and the travelling public. CP Rail." Describes CP's efforts to discontinue "uneconomic passenger services" (1960s).
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Canada: Canadian National
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Includes booklet only (disbound): "CN Passenger Car Equipment, Passenger Sales and Services, Passenger Equipment Development." Inside: "This book has been produced as a guide to passenger sales and services." Summary of Canadian National Passenger Equipment (5 p.), diagrams and information on cars (152 p.), alphabetical listing of named cars (12 p.). Includes 36 pages of b/w photos. (Headquarters: Montreal, 1967).
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Excursion Trains (Canada)
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This collection of railroad ephemera, photographs, prints and posters concerns only streamliner trains--the wind-resistant, "streamlined" designs first appearing on major U.S. railroads in 1934 and peaking in the glamour years of the American streamliner, late 1930s to 1955. The sleek, fast trains were promoted for their speed, luxury and comfort compared to older, heavyweight steam locomotives. The bulk of the collection is composed of passenger brochures, with especially extensive files on Union Pacific; Southern Pacific; New York Central; Chicago, Burlington and Quincy ("the Burlington"); and the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe ("the Santa Fe") railroads. There are also many materials on Amtrak (formed in 1971), and foreign railroads, particularly in Canada, Europe and Japan. Besides brochures, other printed materials include: manufacturer's pamphlets, employee newsletters, press releases, blueprints of railcars, copies of U.S. Patent Office design applications, menus, lounge car stationery, baggage stickers and other items. The photographs are mostly railroad-issued 8 x 10-inch prints showing train exteriors and richly designed dining cars, lounge cars, sleeping cabins and domed observation cars. There are also many high-quality small-format photographs made by Leslie Merrill and other amateur photographers, 1938 to 1960s. The prints and posters mostly consist of promotions for U.S. railroads, with several notable pre-World War II posters for European railroads. An important section of the collection covers early streamlining experiments of the late-19th century: Samuel R. Calthrop's "air-resisting" train of 1865; Frederick U. Adams's "Windsplitter" of 1893; Joe V. Meigs' "Meigs Elevated Railway" monorail in 1880s Boston; and William Riley McKeen Jr.'s aerodynamic McKeen Motor Car of the 1900s. In addition to railroad history, other topics of social and cultural historical interest are: Depictions of African Americans and Native Americans in mass-marketed train travel brochures. There are many examples that reflect American cultural and class stereotypes in the early- to mid-20th century. History of food and drink: See numerous dining car and beverage menus (not always noted in container list). History of advertising, graphic design and typography represented in 20th-century railroad print advertising.
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Southern Pacific Railroad Company
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Includes train(s): Lark; Starlight; Senator; Del Monte; Sacramento RDC.
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