14 x 21 3/4 in. poster produced on thin cardstock and mounted on a sheet of modern cardstock. Poster promotes a new "Short Line Between Toledo and Saginaw" on the Flint & Pere Marquette Railway, which is advertised as being 20 miles shorter than by Detroit, 30 miles shorter than by Jackson, and 35 miles shorter than by Cincinnati, Fort Wayne and Jackson, "or any other line!"

The Flint and Pere Marquette Railroad was operational between 1857 and 1899, chartered to construct an east-west railway line from Flint, Michigan to Lake Michigan at Pere Marquette (now Ludington). It built a section of railway running from Toledo, Ohio to Saginaw, Michigan, which became known as the Toledo Division. The Flint and Pere Marquette Railroad was one of three companies that merged to become the Pere Marquette Railroad, which was incorporated in 1899.