We’ve already seen a 1956 version of this 1954 menu, which I photographed at the Minnesota History Center. The cover shows the International Peace Arch that was built in 1921 on the border between the United States and Canada a … Continue reading
Three years after the previous brochure for this train, this brochure indicates that GN had replaced E units with F units and, more important, reduced frequencies from three trains a day to two. Where before there was one train each … Continue reading
Here’s a 1957 update of the 1951 brochure that we’ve previously seen for Great Northern’s Seattle-Vancouver streamlined trains. The 1951 version was twice as big and had large color illustrations of train interiors while this one has small black-and-white (actually, … Continue reading
This menu doesn’t say whether it is for lunch or dinner, but it probably served for both. In 1956, the morning Internationals left Seattle and Vancouver at about 8 am, arriving at the the opposite terminus around noon. Then they … Continue reading
The Great Northern owned an unusual passenger car called the pendulum car. Manufactured by the Pacific Railway Equipment Company (which apparently existed solely to make pendulum cars), the car was suspended above its center of gravity so that, when going … Continue reading
In addition to its transcontinental Empire Builder, the Great Northern Railway operated local passenger trains in Minnesota, North Dakota, Montana, and Washington. In June, 1950, the railway replaced its heavyweight International, which connected Seattle with Vancouver, BC, with two five-car … Continue reading
