It's February 1931 on Radio Journeys, and this week we hear Empire Builders commemorating its very first show, in a remake of its January 14, 1929, episode. It's about James J. Hill, the founder of the Great Northern Railway, in his younger days, as one of the pioneers of railroading. Then, more from Si and Elmer and Omar, Wizard of Persia.

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It's January 1931 on Radio Journeys, and this week we hear the Empire Builders (January 26) telling one of the legends surrounding Joaquin Murrieta, California outlaw of the 1850s, in an episode called "La Mariposa." Plus, more installments of the Misadventures of Si and Elmer and Omar, Wizard of Persia.

It's the second week of January 1931, and on the radio we hear Episode 6 of the classic "Empire Builders," with the Old Timer (in photo at right as his original incarnation, "the Old Pioneer") offering a few lucky, hardy listeners the chance to accompany him on a tour of Glacier National Park, via the Great Northern Railway. Then, it's more "high corniness" in another episode of "The Misadventures of Si and Elmer." And we hear Anson Weeks and His Orchestra, in a return engagement on Radio Journeys.

Rolling on into the 1930s with the fifth surviving episode of "Empire Builders," starring Don Ameche in his pre-screen days. Plus, the third episode of "The Misadventures of Si and Elmer" and the first of "Omar, Wizard of Persia," one of the earliest surviving examples of an adventure serial. Historic, great radio, all from 1931, presented in the most authentic manner possible.

This week: A little history of the Great Northern Railway, then the fourth or our episodes of "Empire Builders," the classic program of 1930-31 that the GNR produced. This one is from January 5, 1931, and it concerns the impact of the Great Depression. Historic radio to take us along...another radio journey.