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April 1st, 2003
The New Haven Railroad operated special Football Trains that took collegiate football fans to games played at various colleges in and around its service territory such as Boston College, Brown, Columbia, Dartmouth, Fordham, Harvard, New York University, Princeton, and Yale. Here are a selection of Football Train advertising folders dating from the mid to late 1930s and early 1940s. All items from the collection of Marc Frattasio.
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This Football Train folder is for a Yale vs. Harvard game that was played on November 24th, 1935 at Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut. The folder presents the schedules for a number of special trains to take spectators, mostly alumni and family members, to New Haven from Boston, Providence, New York, and Philadelphia and then return them home after the game. |
| This unusual football-shaped Football Train folder presents the dates and locations of nearly every collegiate football game conducted in and around the New Haven's service territory during the fall of 1936. |  |
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This cover design was used on Football Train folders for a number of years during the late 1930s. This folder lists nearly all the collegiate football games conducted in and around the New Haven's service territory during the fall of 1939. The games are presented in scorecard form, permitting a football fan to track the scores of his or her favorite team throughout the football season. |
| This colorful Football Train folder presents the schedules for special trains from Boston and New York City to New Haven, Connecticut for a Yale vs. Harvard football game played at the Yale campus on November 23rd, 1940. |  |
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This Football Train folder, a booklet actually, presents nearly all the collegiate football games taking place in and around the New Haven's service territory during the fall of 1941, the schedules of special and regular trains from a number of locations along the railroad, and also presents some of the amenities available on such trains (like dining car service, parlor car service, sleeping car service, etc.). |
March 2003: Children's Dining Car Menus
February 2003: Sleeping Car Service
January 2003: Odds and Ends #6
December 2002: Old Saybrook China
November 2002: Platinum Blue China
September 2002: Diesel Builder's Plates
April 2002: New Haven R.R. Travel Bags
March 2002: Cost Saving Fare Promotions
February 2002: Odds and Ends #1
December 2001: New Haven R.R. Locks
November 2001: The Streamlined Coaches
September 2001: Seashore Tours
August 2001: John Held, Jr. and the New Haven R.R.
June 2001: The Rail-Auto Travel Plan
May 2001: Advertising Stickers
April 2001: Dietz Hand Lanterns
February 2001: Right of Way Signs
December 2000: TDI Commuter Schedules
November 2000: To Florida on the New Haven Railroad!
September 2000: Train Service Cancellation Posters
August 2000: The New Haven Railroad Rail Charge Card
June 2000: The Boat Race Trains
May 2000: Timetable Change Posters
April 2000: New Haven Railroad Station Signs
March 2000: The Key to New England
February 2000: Route 128 Station
January 2000: New Haven Railroad Cigarette Lighters
December 1999: The Dan'l Webster
November 1999: Postwar Travel Posters
October 1999: Modern Dining Car China
September 1999: New Haven Railroad Dining Car Service Pins
August 1999: New Haven Railroad Lapel Pins
July 1999: The 1939 New York World's Fair -- 60th Anniversary
February 1999: Special Trains of the 1950s and 1960s
January 1999: Ticket Envelopes
December 1998: Holiday Advertising Material
November 1998: New York City Travel Advertising Material
October 1998: Boston Travel Advertising Material
September 1998: The Hurricane of 1938 -- 60th Anniversary
July 1998: The New Haven Goes Back to Cape Cod
June 1998: The 1964/1965 New York World's Fair
May 1998: Official Gifts of the McGinnis Era
March 1998: Pre-War Advertising Brochures
February 1998: New Haven Railroad Freight Service Advertising from the 1950s and 1960s
December 1997: Hotel Montclair Advertisement ca. 1939