This little booklet advertising the North Coast Limited also served as a business card for Northern Pacific’s passenger agent in Detroit, Michigan. New equipment from Pullman that was put into service on May 14, 1930 (previously featured here and here) … Continue reading
I’ll be posting Northern Pacific postcards for the next several days. Today, I have three advertising the heavyweight North Coast Limited and two more that don’t fit into other categories. Except where noted, PDFs are about 400 to 500 kilobytes. … Continue reading
Here is an impressively large–11″x14″–booklet heralding the new North Coast Limited in May, 1930. Great Northern had introduced its new Empire Builder the year before, and NP was trying to keep up. The booklet was obviously designed to impress. Not … Continue reading
In response to the addition of the Empire Builder to the Great Northern’s timetable in 1939, the Northern Pacific completely re-equipped the North Coast Limited in 1930. As the Northwest’s only all-Pullman train, the North Coast Limited had a cachet … Continue reading
Five years after the Great Northern re-equipped the Oriental Limited in 1924, the Northern Pacific completely re-equipped its North Coast Limited. Unlike GN’s premiere train, the North Coast Limited had the extra cache of being an all-Pullman train. Click image … Continue reading
This North Coast Limited menu doesn’t have a date, but it urges people to “apply now for training as a U.S. Army Aviation Cadet.” This places it before 1947, when the Army Air Corps became the Air Force. Since the … Continue reading
In 1883, Northern Pacific financier Henry Villard celebrated the completion of the transcontinental line with a fabulous “golden spike” ceremony (which didn’t actually use a gold spike), and then promptly had a nervous breakdown over the company’s weak finances. To … Continue reading
This undated brochure doesn’t mention air conditioning or roller bearings, suggesting that it was printed before the mid-1930s. Northern Pacific was proud of its dining car service, having been the first transcontinental railway to offer a dining car on its … Continue reading
This lunch menu doesn’t have a date, but as previously noted it would have to be from the late 1930s when the Northern Pacific had roller bearings on its passenger locomotives. The rather spectacular pattern on the menu cover wraps … Continue reading
This piece of on-board stationery advertises “the air-conditioned North Coast Limited” with the added statement, “For 1000 miles-companion of mountains.” While Great Northern would later advertise that the Great Domed Empire Builder passed “more scenic miles,” Northern Pacific fans would … Continue reading
