These luggage stickers, which I copied from Minnesota History Center files, feature Old Bill, which is what the Great Northern called the animal in its original mountain goat logo. Rocky replaced Old Bill in 1936. Click any image to download … Continue reading
While the hotel stickers shown yesterday were all rectangles, many of the chalet stickers were cut in distinctive patterns. Although it is unlikely that a tourist would visit all of the chalets on one trip, I’ve sorted these into roughly … Continue reading
Great Northern and its subsidiary, the Glacier Park Hotel Company, issued a variety of luggage stickers over the years. I found these in the Minnesota History Center. Stickers had minor variations from year to year. Since one of these is … Continue reading
These postcards are from the same series as yesterday’s, but exclusively show scenery rather than lodges and chalets. Except for the first one, these sights could all be found not far from Many Glacier Hotel. Click image to download a … Continue reading
Although these postcards are undated, I found them in a folder with other items from 1925 at the Minnesota History Center. These show various Great Northern-built hotels and lodges in the park. Click image to download a 184-KB PDF of … Continue reading
The Great Northern gave these postcards to members of the 1925 Upper Missouri Historical Expedition to send to friends and relations. I copied them from the Minnesota History Center. Click image to download a 160-KB PDF of this postcard. The … Continue reading
The Great Northern issued this series of postcards promoting its newly re-equipped Oriental Limited in 1924. We’ve already seen one of the cards in the series showing a P-2 locomotive pulling the train through the Washington Cascades. I copied all … Continue reading
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
Just as the Charles Russell menus were handed down from the streamlined Empire Builder to the Western Star, Great Northern’s color photo menus were handed down from the heavyweight Empire Builder to the revived Oriental Limited when the previous train … Continue reading
The coffee shop car was something new on Great Northern’s 1947 Empire Builder. Great Northern’s heavyweight Empire Builder and Oriental Limited had a lounge car open only to Pullman passengers and a diner that was mainly patronized by sleeping car … Continue reading
