This menu used in the Many Glacier Hotel could be mailed to a friend as a postcard. The photo shows Swiftcurrent Falls, but the view needlessly includes the same, somewhat altered, building that we saw on the 1923 menu a … Continue reading
This menu was used for lunch on the “Second Annual Michigan Farmer Tour” on August 11, 1930. Like another 1930 menu we’ve seen, this one does double-duty as a postcard. Because it was bigger than an ordinary postcard, postage was … Continue reading
In August, 1923, Kiwanis Clubs in northern Minnesota took a trip to Watertown, South Dakota, probably for a regional meeting of some kinds. Along the way, they were served breakfast, lunch, and dinner from this menu featuring a glued-on, hand-colored … Continue reading
This 48-page booklet is undated, but the cover highlights “The New Oriental Limited,” which dates it to 1924 or later. We’ve seen a 1927 edition of the same booklet with a color cover, so this one would have to be … Continue reading
From 1959 through 1964, Great Northern issued at least 22 of these brochures that fold up to be slightly smaller than a postcard. With this one for Spokane, the only one I know I am missing is for Hawaii. Click … Continue reading
In 1957, Great Northern decided to get out of the hotel business and leased Glacier Park hotels to the Knutson Hotel Corporation, a Minnesota company founded by Don Knutson. GN wanted Knutson to not only manage the hotels but to … Continue reading
This booklet illustrates Glacier with a combination of color and black-and-white photos plus a centerfold map. The first several pages are devoted to the hotels — Glacier, Many Glacier, and Prince of Wales — followed by a section on tours … Continue reading
This handy brochure has floor plans for every car used on most Great Northern streamlined trains in 1957. Twenty-four floor plans are included, including plans for cars on the Empire Builder, Western Star, Winnipeg Limited, Internationals, and Red River. For … Continue reading
This timetable was issued less than two years after the Western Star had replaced the Oriental Limited, and GN still treated it as a first-class train. It made more stops than the Empire Builder, but the main difference in the … Continue reading
The Great Northern introduced 58-seat semi-streamlined coaches to the Empire Builder in 1937. Though they had the same shape as streamlined cars, they were built with rivets and rolled on six-wheel trucks, suggesting they were as heavy or nearly as … Continue reading
