Affordable Luxury

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Creator

Streamline Cruises

Title

Affordable Luxury

Coverage

Chicago

Publisher

The Company

Date

ca 1935

Subject

Brochure

Description

Streamline Cruises was a travel agency based in New York, NY which promoted rail tours across the United States. This brochure uses images of one of the Union Pacific’s streamline diesel locomotives which was popular with the traveling public. The railroads heavily promoted rail travel during the 1930s to maintain their market share versus buses, cars, and airplanes.