These matchbook covers are going to be a Christmas gift for my train enthusiast Father-in-Law. Since he doesn't have a computer and I think they're cool I decided to share them here. I'm guessing the matchbooks and the trains they promote are from the 1940's-1950's era.
These next two are both promoting the Hiawatha Line.
The Orange Blossom Special inspired this classic in 1938.
David,
ReplyDeleteIn the 1960s, those Electroliners were sold to a public transit system in the Philadelphia suburbs (now part of SEPTA) and converted for 3rd-rail use. I never rode on them, but I remember seeing them parked in the scrap yard alongside Upper Darby's 69th Street terminal in the 1970s.