Buying the New Yorker 1976 - page 73

This is a long thin ad. I've chopped it up to make it a bit easier to manage.





Looking that over, I thought that the two places I was going to go with this were.

1. Riffing about the fjords. I love riffing on fjords.
2. Is that font the same as the Gilligan's Island opening credits?

And then I search for Raymond & Whitcomb, and find an article from 1893 in the New York Times Archive:

TWENTY-SIX MANGLED BODIES; TRAIN FILLED WITH EXCURSIONIST WRECKED AT BATTLE CREEK. MORE THAN A SCORE BADLY INJURED. A Frightful Holocaust Caused by Disobe- dience of Orders. PASSENGERS ROASTED TO DEATH. Raymond & Whitcomb Excursion Train Filled with Returning World's Fair Tourists Driven Like a Rod of Steel into a Pacific Express -- Unlucky Thirteen Cars Crushed into Splinters About Sleeping Passenger -- Then Fire Roasted Helpless Travelers Who Were Pinned Down by Debris -- Terrible Suffering and Heroic Death of Mrs. Van Dusen of Sprout Brook, N.Y. -- Pitiful Scenes, of Which Those Who Would Rescue Were Powerless Spectators -- Engineer Wooley of the Raymond & Whitcomb Train Says Conductor Scott Told Him That the Road Was Clear -- The Engineer and Conductor Arrested and Held to be Tried for Manslaughter.

That's just the summary. It's quite an article.

Raymond & Whitcomb have a website, but there's not much there. A quick poke through eBay can bring up a bunch of their old brochures as well as a few for the MTS Argonaut.