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Trains Magazine 1951 May Trips You Can Take on Your 1951 Vacation Erie Railroad
Trains Magazine 1951 May Trips You Can Take on Your 1951 Vacation
66 Pages
Cover photo. By Richard H. Kindig.
Rio Grande narrow-gauge 2-8-2 No. 494 with an excursion train on the Crested Butte branch in September 1948.
Railroad news and editorial comment. By W. V. Anderson.6
Travel vignettes. By A. C. Kalmbach.--17
A railroad passenger reminisces about the things he's seen and wants to see again.
Travel ... family style. Photos by Wallace W. Abbey.-18
A young family takes a trip by train and finds in its streamlined interior all the comforts of home, and more.
Route of the Flying Saucers. By Wallace W. Abbey.-24
The Erie Railroad, 100 years after the completion of its line from the Hudson to Lake Erie, is a modern fast freight road.
Off the beaten path. By A. C. Kalmbach.--31
Trains' publisher takes a trek over little-used rail lines and writes a memo to the editor about it.
Railroad routes of the United States. A map.-- 34-35
You can go anywhere in this vast and beautiful nation by rail, and find just the vacation spot you're looking for.
Photo section. Views of scenic spots along the railroads.36
Manitou & Pike's Peak, 36; Jersey Central at Jersey City, 37; Rutland at Lake Champlain, 38; New Haven's Poughkeepsie Bridge, 38; New York Central along the Hudson, 39; B&O and WM in the Narrows, 39; L&N at Anchorage, Ky., 40; Lackawanna in Delaware Water Gap, 40; Horseshoe Curve, 40; Burlington along the Mississippi, 41; Santa Fe in Apache Canyon, 41; Feather River Canyon, 42; California Zephyr in South Boulder Canyon, 42; GN along Glacier Park, 43; CPR west of Lake Louise, 43; Olympian Hiawatha at Hyak, Wash., 44; UP in Cajon Pass, 45; the Lark along San Francisco Bay, 45.
Narrow-gauge vacation. By Richard H. Kindig.-46
There's still enough of Colorado's slim-gauge railroads operating to make a trip out there worth while.
All aboard!-- Some planned trips by train for your vacation.50
You can have a lot of fun traveling by rail, and a lot of relaxation too. If you look back at past vacations, you will find that (whether you realized it at the time or not) you planned them for the fun you could get out of them. You probably overlooked the fact that relaxation is the prime purpose of a vacation, the reason your employer scheduled one for you in the first place.
Far too often in the past, you probably returned home more tired than you were when you left. You had your fun, all right, but you missed the relaxation it was supposed to give you.
By taking your vacation by rail, you can accomplish both purposes of a vacation. You can travel far and see many things you don't get a chance to see 50 weeks out of the year. At the same time, you can relax - something you can't do if you're driving your own car. You need not eat potluck at a variety of roadside lunch counters; instead, you can enjoy full meals sitting at a table as in your own home. If you want a snack during the day or evening, it's available on the train. If you want to read, you'll find magazines in the lounge car - where, incidentally, you can exchange experiences with other passengers if you wish.
If it's scenery you're after (and who isn't?), there is plenty of it just outside your car window. If you're on a train which features dome cars, you can see far more scenery from the dome than you could from any automobile except a convertible.
If you're on a long trip, you can go to sleep in a comfortable bed at night (or, if your budget is small, you can stretch out in a comfortable reclining seat) while your train keeps right on moving toward your destination, allowing you to travel much farther in a limited time than you could ever travel in your own car.
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