Author: [Southern Pacific Company]. Burckhalter, F. L., R. L. Ruby, L. U. Morris, G. E. Gaylord, J. W. Corbett, R. E. Hallawell, G. C. Baker, C. H. Grant, J. C. Goodfellow, A. T. Mercier, C. F. Donnatin & L. B. McDonald - Contributors
Title: SOUTHERN PACIFIC COMPANY RAILWAY COLLECTION
Description: San Francisco: Southern Pacific Company, 1944. Beige paper printed with blue, black and orange inks. Brochure printed on orange paper. 15 items, each of varying pages. Spreadsheets housed within each timetable. Various sizes: 10-3/4" x 15-1/4" (oblong format to timetables). Brochure: 5" x 7" (oblong). Posters: 12-1/2" x 19". Moderate wear to timetables and posters (rubbing, creasing and light soiling apparent). An about VG collection. Includes: 8 Railway timetables (numbers: 210, 239, 12, 11, 225, 231, 218 & 236), a small brochure on How to be a Southern Pacific Junior Engineer complete with question and answer test, a pamphlet on the "End of an Era" about the run of San Francisco's Last Ferryboats, and three posters, with timetables printed on rectos (blank versos). "All boys want to be real locomotive engineers someday. All of us want to run big locomotives that pull famous trains, blow whistles, give signals and do all the other things that make the engineer's job so much fun. Now boys don't have to wait until "someday" to be real engineers. They can be Southern Pacific Junior Engineers. It is very easy to be a Junior Engineer and it doesn't cost a cent." (How to be a Southern Pacific Junior Engineer).

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