This beautiful poster has been re-mastered from an original 1950’s advertisement for the Union Pacific’s “City of St. Louis” Domeliner service, featuring the scenic trip through the Cajon Pass, known as “The Passage To The Pacific.” In this classic view, the train is passing through the Mormon Rocks, a famous landmark in the Cajon Pass.
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 it 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 13"x19" frames are readily available at your local craft or hobby retailer, and online.
A great vintage print for your home, shop, or business!
HISTORY
CAJON PASS
The Cajon Pass is an important transportation corridor that separates the San Gabriel and San Bernardino Mountain ranges in Southern California. For centuries, the pass has been a critical route from points east into Southern California. The Cajon Pass is well known across the country for its unique and rugged scenery.
The route through the Cajon Pass was first used as an Indian footpath from the desert regions to the inland valleys, and to the Pacific Coast. The footpath evolved into a wagon route in the 1850’s, and a toll road through the pass was constructed in the 1860’s.
The California Southern Railroad built the first railroad through the pass in 1883, and other railroads built their own lines through the pass in the following years. In railroad advertising and photography, the Cajon Pass became known as the “Passage To The Pacific.”
National Old Trails Road, the nation’s first “Ocean to Ocean Highway” (for automobile traffic) was opened in 1912, and the road went through the Cajon Pass. In 1926, the section of National Old Trails Road through the Cajon Pass became part of the famed Route 66.
UNION PACIFIC RAILROAD - CITY OF ST. LOUIS
The Union Pacific Railroad’s City of St. Louis began operating on June 2, 1946 between St. Louis, Missouri and Cheyenne, Wyoming, where its cars were switched to other Union Pacific trains to continue west to the Pacific coast. In April 1951, it became a separate train from St. Louis to Los Angeles, California, skipping Cheyenne; it still carried some cars to switch to trains to other coast cities. In 1964, it was combined with the City of Los Angeles west of Ogden, Utah, and in 1968 with the City of San Francisco from Cheyenne to Ogden.
Between St. Louis and Kansas City, the train ran on the Wabash Railroad, then on the Norfolk & Western which leased the Wabash in 1964. This part of the run became a separate train on June 19, 1968, retaining the City of St Louis name until its discontinuance in April 1969; after June 1968 the Union Pacific train was the City of Kansas City, which lasted until Amtrak took over on May 1, 1971.
