More Travel in the Far Northeast

This time on a bigger railroad. One ad that captures all the vacation adventure of New England, in this 1905 advertisement for the Boston and Maine.

Originally published in PEARSON'S MAGAZINE in 1905. Click for larger version. Just imagine yourself among those mountains: hunting, fishing, boating with your sweetheart on the quiet lakes.

Mountain Trolley Line

The cover of the July, 1908 issue of POPULAR ELECTRICITY. Click for larger.

 

Many more covers from this magazine online on MagazineArt.org. Bound volume run of the magazine on the Internet Archive.

Some Rail Pictures from POPULAR ELECTRICITY 1908

I recently added a large number of cover images from the early tech magazine POPULAR ELECTRICITY to the MagazineArt.org site. Most of these were scanned for the site by Doug Bell at JPL, but I found that the Internet Archive has a complete run of the bound volumes, brought over from Google's book scanning project. You can find them easily at the Archive; good luck (and a dime for good measure) trying to find them in Google's appallingly bad indexing system.

The scans aren't great, but how else are you going to find these old magazines (unless you're Doug Bell)? I did some cleanup in Photoshop, and here are a few, with some more to come. Captions are from the original magazine appearance; filenames list issue and page number. As usual, click to see larger versions (larger dimension 1000 pixels).

Two Swiss Mountain Railway Pictures

From a guidebook to Lucerne, Switzerland, published in the 1930's, and currently listed on eBay by seller acmeproducts.

The Pilatus Railway. Cogs! The only way they could go up at that angle.

The Rigi Railway (compare with this earlier post)

Click images to see larger versions.