Here are two more brochures promoting the 1924 Oriental Limited. Both use different graphics from yesterday’s and one is 8-1/2″x11″ instead of 7″x10″. Click image to download a 623-KB PDF of this brochure. The first one, signed by Great Northern’s … Continue reading
Other than some items that are difficult to scan because they are too large or in bindings that would break if I laid them flat on the scanner, and some trivial items such as tickets and perhaps a few postcards, … Continue reading
Most of Great Northern’s color-photo menus feature pictures of Glacier National Park. Yesterday’s Grand Coulee menu and today’s Mount Rainier menu are the only exceptions I have found so far. Someone at Great Northern must have liked fishing, because — … Continue reading
In 1942, when Grand Coulee Dam was completed, it was a proud symbol of American technological prowess. But I can only think of it as a money-losing project that completely wiped out one of the biggest and most valuable salmon … Continue reading
In a 1920 menu shown here recently, Great Northern called this flower “Indian basket grass,” but by 1949 it was using the more common name of bear grass. We’ve seen this menu cover before on a 1946 Empire Builder menu, … Continue reading
The 1947 Oriental Limited consisted of hand-me-down equipment from the pre-streamlined Empire Builder. The train’s dining cars also received hand-me-down menus, in this case a menu with the same cover as one used on the Empire Builder in 1940. Click … Continue reading
Great Northern introduced a new Oriental Limited in 1924, and this brochure advertises its first birthday. I photographed the brochure at the Minnesota History Center, which doesn’t allow the use of scanners, so there are some slight parallax issues. Click … Continue reading
The photos in this folder follow the route of the Oriental Limited from St. Paul to Seattle. It is dated 1906, or one year after Great Northern inaugurated the train. Published by C.H. Shaver, a news agency in St. Paul, … Continue reading
All but one of these blotters are from the Great Northern archive at the Minnesota History Center, so I can confidently date them to 1928. Since the history center does not allow the use of scanners, I copied these using … Continue reading
This booklet has no date, but since it advertises the “new” Oriental Limited, it is from 1924 or later; and since it does not mention the historical monuments that Great Northern built in 1925, it is from 1925 or earlier. … Continue reading
