During the late 1920s and early 1930s, the Great Northern issued a new calendar every month, each one featuring a Winold Reiss painting of one or more Blackfeet Indians. This painting of Morning Bird was also included in the 1940 … Continue reading
Great Northern introduced a new Oriental Limited in 1924, and this brochure advertises its first birthday. I photographed the brochure at the Minnesota History Center, which doesn’t allow the use of scanners, so there are some slight parallax issues. Click … Continue reading
This booklet has the same introduction by Mary Roberts Rinehart that was used several years later in The Call of the Mountains, but otherwise appears to have different text and photos. It still contains the usual blend of stories, photos, … Continue reading
One of the photos in yesterday’s postcard folder showed fly fishing on the Skykomish River. This was an important enough activity that Great Northern devoted a whole booklet to it in 1909. Click image to download an 26.8-MB PDF of … Continue reading
The photos in this folder follow the route of the Oriental Limited from St. Paul to Seattle. It is dated 1906, or one year after Great Northern inaugurated the train. Published by C.H. Shaver, a news agency in St. Paul, … Continue reading
In 1925, Great Northern sent out Christmas greetings in the form of a little booklet called Red River Trails. This would be republished in a slightly different form for the 1926 Columbia River Historical Expedition. I’ve already posted a scan … Continue reading
This, the ninth in the same series of booklets described in yesterday’s post, discusses the mineral wealth of the Pacific Northwest. Nowadays, “Pacific Northwest” is used to refer to Oregon and Washington; but the railways that published this booklet expanded … Continue reading
The introduction to this 1924 booklet, which I scanned from the Spokane Public Library collection, notes that it is the eighth of the series of pamphlets published by the Burlington Route, Great Northern, and Northern Pacific railways “as part of … Continue reading
By 1966, this timetable had shrunk from the equivalent of six pages in the 1962 edition to just four pages. All of the trains still operated; the difference was fewer connecting bus schedules and the equipment of trains was tucked … Continue reading
By 1962, Great Northern had given up on an overnight train from Portland to Seattle, and its northbound train left Portland at 1:30 pm, leaving the late-afternoon departure to the Northern Pacific (whose train also left in the late afternoon … Continue reading
