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This is part of a series of at least a dozen menus that feature a sepia-tone photograph glued on to the front cover. Most of the photos show Mount Rainier, dude ranches, or backcountry camps; so far, I haven’t found … Continue reading
Category Archives: 1930 North Coast Limited
“‘Keep the Key to Your City,’ cried the celebrated man” shown in the comic on the wrap-around cover of this booklet, “‘I’m far too comfortable on the North Coast Limited.’” Like the cover of yesterday’s brochure, this one is by … Continue reading
This six-panel brochure encouraging people to take the Northern Pacific “to or from California” is rare in that it promotes the “all-Pullman North Coast Limited.” NP made the train all-Pullman in mid-1909, then added a coach again in 1912. NP … Continue reading
Here’s another piece of on-board stationery I found at the Minnesota History Center. Instead of a color lithograph of Lower Yellowstone Falls, page 3 has a black-and-white photo of Mt. St. Helens, adding that “The wild grandeur of the Rockies … Continue reading
Here’s a beautiful piece of on-board stationery that I photographed at the Minnesota History Center. While the front cover, shown below, looks plain, it unfolds to reveal a brightly colored lithograph of Lower Yellowstone Falls and canyon. This is a … Continue reading
We’ve previously seen Northern Pacific’s 8-1/2″x11″ brochures for the North Dakota badlands, Yellowstone, dude ranches, the Mount Baker National Forest, Portland, Seattle, Tacoma, rivers, the Rockies, and mountains in general. This one covers the East, as in the eastern United … Continue reading
This menu introduces a new gateway to Yellowstone, the “Red Lodge HIGHRoad,” now known as the Beartooth Highway. We’ve previously seen a 12-page booklet about the road that NP also published shortly after it opened in 1936. Both the booklet … Continue reading
Seven years ago, I noted the strange fact that the North Coast Limited went over the Chicago & North Western between 1911 and 1918. This is peculiar because Northern Pacific owned almost half of the Burlington and for most of … Continue reading
In stressing that the North Coast Limited was completely air conditioned — including a diagram purporting to show how air conditioning worked — this booklet can be dated to about 1937, the first year, as far as I can tell, … Continue reading
“Passengers in standard Pullmans are cordially invited to avail themselves of the special services and comforts on the air-conditioned North Coast Limited,” says the inside front cover of this guide. All of special services described in the guide were to … Continue reading