This beautiful reproduction poster has been re-mastered from an original advertising poster for the Southern Pacific Railroad’s Apache Trail tours. 
 
The vibrant colors and detail of this classic image have been painstakingly brought back to life to preserve a great piece of history.
 
The high-resolution image is printed on heavy archival photo paper, on a large-format, professional giclée process printer. The poster is shipped in a rigid cardboard tube, and is ready for framing.
 
The 13"x19" format is an excellent image size that looks great as a stand-alone piece of art, or as a grouped visual statement. These posters require no cutting, trimming, or custom framing, and a wide variety of these frames are readily available at your local craft or hobby retailer, and online.
 
A great vintage print for your home, shop, or business!
 
HISTORY OF SOUTHERN PACIFIC’S APACHE TOURS
 
The Southern Pacific Railroad was one of the earliest major railroads to develop tourist attractions and automobile “side trips” along their routes to increase passenger traffic. In 1914, the Southern Pacific developed an auto tourist side trip along the “Roosevelt to Mesa Road” which they named the “Apache Trail.” The Roosevelt to Mesa Road ran from the Southern Pacific’s railhead at Mesa Arizona, to the Roosevelt Dam, 62-miles to the northeast. 
 
In 1922, the Arizona Department of Transportation completed Route 70 (now Route 60), which provided a more direct connection between Mesa and Globe Arizona. This route essentially bypassed the Apache Trail, and by the late 1920s most of the businesses along the road were closed. Southern Pacific stopped advertising their Apache Trail side trips in the late 1930s.