9 x 15 5/8 in. poster (sight), framed to 10 1/4 x 16 3/4 in. Dated 17 November 1879, this broadside uses an illustrated vignette to promote "The American Route" on the Lake Shore and Michigan Southern Railway. The quaint depiction shows a locomotive pulling up to an LS&MS train station, with men, women, and children of various attires, and freight packed in barrels and boxes waiting to board. A large sign on the first car reads "No Detention."

Broadside instructs viewers to mark packages "Lake Shore Fast Line," for freight to be forwarded to Erie, Cleveland, Toledo, Butler, Chicago, Cincinnati, Columbus, Indianapolis, St. Louis and Louisville, "Without Transfer."