This letter was posted on May 14, 1929, from “Mother” to “Master Peter Gantenbein” of Portland, Oregon. As she was writing the previous day, Mother and Dad were riding the Oriental Limited by Glacier Park less than a month before … Continue reading
This little (2-3/4″x4-1/4″) booklet was given to passengers aboard the train that Grace Flandrau had described in relatively florid prose. By later standards, the 1924 Oriental Limited was fairly simple: baggage cars, coaches, tourist sleeping cars, a diner, first-class sleeping … Continue reading
Seven Sunsets was the only non-historical essay Grace Flandrau wrote for the Great Northern. Ostensibly a travelogue, it was in fact a 46-page advertisement for the Oriental Limited, which the railway had completely re-equipped in 1924. The source of the … Continue reading
While the streamlined Empire Builder began using menus featuring Charlie Russell paintings, the Oriental Limited inherited the Empire Builder‘s Glacier Park menus. This dinner menu from 1949 features bear grass and the Going to the Sun Road on the cover. … Continue reading
Judging from the logos, this letterhead was from the post-war Oriental Limited, before it was replaced by the Western Star in 1951. The paper These associate nations cricket should be generic levitra cialis appreciated by ICC for their performance on … Continue reading
The Oriental Limited was the Great Northern’s premiere train from 1905 through 1929, when it became secondary to the Empire Builder. The Empire Builder himself, James J. Hill, always had his eye on the Orient, briefly owning steamships Dakota and … Continue reading
