Here, in a 1931 painting titled "Giant Conquerors of Space and Time", famed railroad artist Grif Teller depicts the beginnings of national air travel. The Pennsylvania Railroad in conjunction with the Santa Fe Railroad and Transcontinental Air Transport could get you from Penn Station, New York to Grand Central Air Terminal in Glendale, California in about 48 hours. PRR would take you overnight from New York to Port Columbus, Ohio. TAT would then fly you during the day to Waynoka, Oklahoma, where you would transfer to the Santa Fe for a night in the Pullman to Clovis, New Mexico; and thence by TAT to California. The Pennsy's advertised schedule called for a 6:05 PM departure on Day 1 and a 5:52 PM arrival on day 3. Later in the 30's TAT was reorganized as TWA, Trans World Airlines.
The painting shows a PRR K4s Pacific roaring along the "Broad Way" beneath a TAT Ford Trimotor. A gift from J. E. Chubb, it hangs in the Grif Teller Gallery at Railroad Museum of Pennsylvania in Strasburg, Pennsylvania. Another famous Teller K4s painting, "When The Broad Way Meets the Dawn" is featured on special Pennsylvania auto license plates on the rear of both of my cars, as well as those of thousands of other Pennsylvania railfans.
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