Description
Black and white 6 1/4″ x 10″ ad for their Four Great Routes to the Coast with emphasis shown to the Overland Route. The headline says “Straight to the land of gold led the Overland Trail of ’49” and the text talks about this route being followed first by wagons and then by the first transcontinental railroad. It mentions the Central Pacific being the forerunner of the Southern Pacific and talks about now their San Francisco Overland Limited getting you from Chicago to San Francisco in 63 hours. The other three coastal routes that it mentions are the Sunset Route from New Orleans to San Diego, Los Angeles and San Francisco, the Golden State Route from Chicago to Southern California via Kansas City and the Shasta Route which covers the Pacific Northwest into California via Portland. The ad has a picture of a pioneer campfire with a group of travelers huddled around it as well as a map that shows the paths of the Southern Pacific routes.
Source: March 1928 National Geographic.
