22 3/4 x 31 1/4 in. poster (sight) framed to 25 1/2 x 34 1/4 in. Bright and boldly colored, this poster advertises through-tickets available from Chicago to "All Principal Points West," including popular routes from Chicago to Kansas City and Chicago to Council Bluffs & Omaha. These routes are advertised as having Pullman Palace cars of multiple types available, and not requiring a change of cars for through passengers.

A map of the Chicago Burlington & Quincy Railroad is featured at center, showing connections.

The Chicago Burlington & Quincy Railroad was formed in teh 1850s through the consolidation of multiple smaller midwestern railroads including the Chicago and Aurora Railroad, the Central Military Tract, the west end of the Peoria & Oquawka, and the Northern Cross Railroad companies. The "Burlington Route," as the CB&Q was sometimes called, set its sights on the west, reaching Kearney, Nebraska by 1872, and Denver by 1882. Eventually, the primary connections of the railroad were Chicago, Minneapolis–Saint Paul, St. Louis, Kansas City, and Denver. Because of its extensive trackage in the midwest and mountain states, the railroad used the advertising slogans "Everywhere West", "Way of the Zephyrs", and "The Way West."