These are simply the best posters available! You will be thrilled with the image quality, vivid colors, fine paper, and unique subjects.
 
OUR POSTERS ARE SIZED FOR STANDARD OFF-THE-SHELF FRAMES, WITH NO CUSTOM FRAMING REQUIRED, PROVIDING HUGE COST SAVINGS!
 
This beautiful reproduction poster has been re-mastered from an original circa 1930 Santa Fe Railroad advertisement featuring their Pullman passenger service to the Grand Canyon, Bryce Canyon, and Zion National Parks.
 
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" and 24"x36" formats are excellent image sizes that look great as a stand-alone piece of art, or grouped as a 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!
 
CHICAGO AND NORTH WESTERN RAILWAY HISTORY
 
The Chicago & North Western Railway (C&NW) served the greater Milwaukee area and the upper Midwest from the 1850s until its corporate demise in 1995, when it was purchased by the Union Pacific Railroad.
 
A historically wealthy railroad, the C&NW embraced its “The Best of Everything” motto, and the residents of Milwaukee benefitted.
 
The C&NW had superb passenger operations, and it operated scores of trains that took riders to such destinations as Chicago, the Twin Cities, Rapid City, and the Upper Peninsula of Michigan. The crippling effects of the Great Depression threw the C&NW into receivership, but in 1935, the railroad introduced its most famous trains of the twentieth century, “The 400s.” The 400 service whisked passengers between Chicago-Milwaukee-Twin Cities in approximately 400 minutes. Later, other 400s appeared, including the Flambeau 400 and the Peninsula 400.
 
The C&NW’s 1928 timetable emphasized planning "your summer vacation" to Yellowstone, Rocky Mountain, Zion, Grand Canyon, Bryce, Yosemite, and Ranier National Parks, as well as other western mountain sites.
 
Following the hectic years of World War II and its emergence from bankruptcy, the C&NW began to reduce its Milwaukee passenger service, slashing it drastically after 1956. Automobile competition, high labor costs, and over-regulation prompted the Ben Heineman administration in 1972 to “spin off” ownership of the railroad to its employees.
 
The C&NW remained solvent, bolstered by Wyoming coal traffic. But the Union Pacific Corporation wanted key components, especially trackage from Nebraska connections to Chicago, and so in 1995 it acquired the property.