Rare Books
Oversize materials, various
- Description
All items in this box are 15 x 18 inches or smaller and include railroad pamphlets; advertising prints and clippings from 1940s magazines; and Leslie Merrill's scrapbook of streamliner clippings (1934-1938). The box includes photographs. Materials on Western Maryland Railway Company's fast freight line (1952?); "Train Album of Photographs: Railroads of Chicago" (1950); California Zephyr Vista-Dome brochure; General Motors' diesel "Train of Tomorrow"; California Western Railroad "Skunk Train" broadsides; Pullman-Standard Company portfolio of print advertisements, "Tops in Streamliners" (1941); Western Pacific Railroad Company Finance docket 25784, California Zephyr Advertising and Promotions (1968-1969); American Locomotive Company (Alco) line of diesel-electric engines; Two photographs of the Pioneer Zephyr (1949); color promotional illustrations of Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul and Pacific Railroad streamliner trains; Amtrak promotional train display (1970s?); and tearsheets of advertisements from magazines (1940s).
- Date
- 1940s-1970s
- Call number
- 646607
