This menu was used on the Canadian National steamship Prince Rupert between Vancouver and Skagway, Alaska in 1943. Along with a sister ship named Prince George, the SS Prince Rupert had been built in England in 1910 for the Grand … Continue reading
Here’s CN’s 1952 update to previous editions of the Triangle Route booklet. Typical of CN, this booklet is a step down from Canadian Pacific’s Through the Rockies: only 16 pages instead of 28 and filled with mostly black-and-white photos instead … Continue reading
A cute Teddy bear named Rags, pictures of CN’s streamlined Northern locomotive, and nursery rhymes about riding the CN fill most of the eight pages of this 1948 menu. The menu itself occupies just two halves of the centerfold. Click … Continue reading
Here’s the 1948 edition of Canadian National’s prewar booklet about the Triangle Route between Jasper, Prince Rupert, and Vancouver. CN marketing has completely rewritten the booklet, reusing only a few photos from the 1940 edition. The cover photo is a … Continue reading
This is a 52-page booklet with a fold-out map on the inside back cover. The front cover photo wraps around to the back, so I elected to put both the front and the back on the same spread. The fold-out … Continue reading
Half-owned by the Canadian government, CN’s trains were never quite as elegant, its transcontinental route was longer, and its mountain scenery wasn’t quite as spectacular as CP’s. But CN had one thing that CP did not: a line to a … Continue reading
Canadian National Railways was created in 1918 to manage a group of failed or failing government-sponsored railroads including the Canadian Northern, Intercolonial, and National Transcontinental. In 1920, it inaugurated the Continental Limited, a transcontinental train from Montreal to Vancouver that … Continue reading
A number of other trains acquired dome cars after 1956, mainly by acquiring them when other railroads stopped running passenger trains or by shuffling around the equipment of existing trains. In the early 1960s, for example, the Norfolk & Western … Continue reading
