All the Comforts of Home -- April 11, 2014

This ad for the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad, the Burlington Route or the "Q," advertises connections from San Francisco and Los Angeles via the Southern Pacific.  "Cars are clean; porters are accommodating; excursion managers obliging; and the route is without an equal in point of interest. 

The ad is from the 21-October-1901 San Francisco Call. 

Black Hills Detour -- June 15, 2012

The Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad, the Q, connected the Northern Pacific and Great Northern transcontinental railroads with Chicago. In this ad from the March, 1930 Photoplay Magazine, the Q encourages people on their way to or from Yellowstone Park to take a side trip to the Black Hills and see the Old West.