Railway Express Agency advertising posters

dwshearer · **Posted:** Mon Aug 03, 2009 2:05 pm

The Northern Pacific Railway Museum in Toppenish, WA, is restoring its 1940 Ford Railway Express Agency truck. We are searching for some of the REA advertising posters that can be obtained in high enough resolution to reproduce for the sides of the truck. Does anyone have sources for this material? We are particularly interested in the posters that promoted the REA as opposed to the cigarette or gum advertisements.
Doug Shearer

Les Beckman · **Joined:** Tue Aug 02, 2005 1:25 pm **Posts:** 6482

dwshearer wrote:

The Northern Pacific Railway Museum in Toppenish, WA, is restoring its 1940 Ford Railway Express Agency truck. We are searching for some of the REA advertising posters that can be obtained in high enough resolution to reproduce for the sides of the truck. Does anyone have sources for this material? We are particularly interested in the posters that promoted the REA as opposed to the cigarette or gum advertisements.
Doug Shearer

Doug -

We have a Railway Express Agency short trailer that we eventually intend to restore and perhaps mount on one of our museum flat cars. We too would like some of the advertisements that went on the sides of the trailer. We would take one for gum, or a similar authentic ad from this bygone period. A different ad on each side of the trailer would be great, although I don't know what the advertising policy was and whether the ads on each side were different or the same.

Anyone else have a similar historic vehicle that is looking for advertisements?

Les Beckman (Hoosier Valley Railroad Museum/North Judson, Indiana)