GOLDEN AGE OF RAILROAD TRAVEL
Destination San Francisco on the Santa Fe Southern Railway. Circa 1950s.
This mid-century 1950s vintage poster was created by Don Perceval to promote the northernmost extension of the Santa Fe Railway that served the San Francisco Bay area.
1950s train railroad railway travel poster promoting tourism to San Francisco, California via the Santa Fe Railway, and featuring a time-lapse image of traffic on the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge that blurs the head lights and brake lights of cars into distinct white and red lines. The bridge no longer looks like this, as it was rebuilt in 1989 after the Loma Prieta earthquake. It should be noted that this bridge does not have a railroad, however, San Francisco is one of the far-west stopping points of the Santa Fe Railroad.
The Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe Railway (ATSF) was founded in 1859 at the Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe Railway. The railway was largely responsible for "settling the west" by establishing a number of real estate offices to sell farmland through land grants awarded to them by congress. This further generated demand for railway service extension and frequency of travel. Eventually, the company offered a bus line service to help passengers reach unique and remote destinations not unsuitable for a major railroad. At one time, the ATSF operated a tugboat fleet, ferryboats in San Francisco, and a short-lived airline known as the Santa Fe Skyway. In 1996 the railway merged with its northern counterpart the Burlington Northern to become the BNSF Railway we know today.
An Original Vintage Poster which hangs in the Buffalo River library, has been archivally scanned and enhanced. We offer this Museum Quality Giclée Reproduction Print.
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