In view of the recent discussions re the Burlington Zephyrs, I thought the list might find the following of interest. It is the text of a Burlington Lines ad from the March 1945 issue of Trains. (Yes, I'm 60 years behind on my reading.)
AROUND THE WORLD A THOUSAND TIMES! Shortly after the first of this year, Burlington's fleet of fourteen diesel-powered, stainless steel Zephyrs attained an unprecedented total in train miles of service -- 25,000,000! In rolling up the equivalent of a thousand times around the world, the Zephyrs have proved many things. Their tremendous patronage has shown the public's enthusiastic endorsement of these speedy, luxurious, streamlined trains. Their almost unbelievable record of availability and "on-time" performance, in the face of high speed schedules, has established the might of diesel power. Their beauty and stamina are a tribute to the design and structural strength of these fast trains. (The Pioneer Zephyr, first of the Zephyr fleet and America's first diesel-powered streamline train, has nearly 2,000,000 miles to its credit and has already started on its second ten years of service.) Yes, America has given the nod of approval to the Zephyrs and the kind of travel they typify. So there will be more of them in the days ahead. They will be even more efficient, more luxurious. For improvement is the mandate of progress. Although Trains readers of the time were in a higher than average income demographic, and therefore probably better educated than average -- similar demographic to model railroaders, by the way -- the advertisement itself would have appeared in magazines of all types. By today's standards, that's a lot of text for an ad aimed at a general audience. People were still willing to read and write in those days. Incidentally, as I continue my reading of model railroad magazines of the time, I note William K. Walthers was opposed to the introduction of S Scale after the war when model manufacturing would resume. His advertising stated he would not support any "new" scale, which he considered pointless, and would only support HO and O. regards ... John Picur [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] The poll results are in....... To REPLY to the list, use REPLY ALL, to reply to the sender, use REPLY. I do NOT know if this works on all e-mail software, but it works on some of the most common ones. For those of you on DIGEST mode, all REPLY messages go to the list. Change your membership, change your message settings, use our CALENDAR, view shared files or photos, view the list archives, GO TO http://groups.yahoo.com/group/S-Scale/ Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/S-Scale/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
