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This plain menu is dated with an “Office of Supt. Dining Cars” stamp on the cover, suggesting it was used as a sample in office records rather than on board a train. The menu does not have a train name … Continue reading
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We’ve previously seen a version of this booklet which I dated to 1924 or possibly 1925 based on the fact that it advertised the “New Oriental Limited,” which was introduced in 1924, and that the only photos of that train … Continue reading
Here are two more Western Star route guides, these being from 1965 and 1967. Except for changes in train times, the 1965 guide is similar to the 1963 guide, including the ads for the rail credit card and Big Mountain … Continue reading
As we have previously seen, the 1960s route guides for the Empire Builder consisted of an elaborate map that unfolded to be nearly three feet wide. These Western Star route guides cover the same ground in a brochure that is … Continue reading
This menu touts Seattle’s Century 21 World’s Fair, which dates it to 1962. This fair brought so much business to the Great Northern that it purchased coaches from Chicago & North Western to supplement those that were already in its … Continue reading
This eight-day, ten-night tour from Chicago (eight nights from the Twin Cities) included two nights at Glacier Park Lodge, one at Prince of Wales, two at Many Glacier, and one at Lake McDonald. The day at the Glacier Park Lodge … Continue reading
This brochure offers a sixteen-day tour of Glacier, Waterton, Banff, and Yoho national parks. The tour began with a trip on the Western Star to West Glacier and a night at the Lake McDonald Hotel. A bus trip over the … Continue reading
Like a brochure from a couple of days ago, this one suggests a twelve-day tour, but it differs in many ways from the 1953 suggestion. The headline properly emphasizes Glacier Park as the tour suggestion spends four days in Glacier … Continue reading
While Great Northern applied the term “great domes” to all its dome cars, the railway’s full-length domes were certainly greater, at least in terms of weight (more than 90 tons) and cost ($325,000 vs. $225,000 for the short domes). They … Continue reading
We’ve already seen a Western Star menu featuring one of Charles Russell’s many paintings of a buffalo hunt on the cover. This one is different because the words “Western Star” on the front cover are in black letters instead of … Continue reading