In addition to covering the Great Northern-Northern Pacific-Union Pacific pool trains between Portland and Seattle, this timetable unfolds to the equivalent of six pages to also show the Great Northern Internationals between Seattle and Vancouver. While the Internationals were run … Continue reading
In the streamlined era, the route between Portland and Seattle was served by three trains per day, one operated by Great Northern, one by Northern Pacific, and one by Union Pacific. To avoid duplication, the three railroads agreed to pool … Continue reading
The American Bar Association held its 51st annual meeting in Seattle in 1928, and Great Northern provided this special letterhead to ABA members traveling to and from the meeting. Not only does the letterhead mention the ABA, it is printed … Continue reading
This is a beautiful map, unfolding to be three feet long with graphics showing points of interest and topography, one-sentence descriptions of major cities, and the times the Empire Builder stopped in those cities in both eastbound and westbound directions. … Continue reading
In 1958, Great Northern employed nearly 5,500 people in the Twin Cities area, with more than 1,500 of them working in the downtown headquarters building that it shared with Northern Pacific and First National Bank of St. Paul (both part … Continue reading
Great Northern’s 1966 timetable may have been 28 pages long, but as this condensed version shows, the essential information fit into the equivalent of four of those pages. Click image to download a 2.5-MB PDF of this timetable. They do … Continue reading
This is one of my favorite brochures and I had intended to use it when I first mentioned the Western Star more than three years ago. But I wasn’t satisfied with the scans I had made of it, and I … Continue reading
Three years after the previous brochure for this train, this brochure indicates that GN had replaced E units with F units and, more important, reduced frequencies from three trains a day to two. Where before there was one train each … Continue reading
For some reason, Great Northern used two different shapes for its tiny brochures. While yesterday’s brochure, for example, was 5-1/2″ by 17″, this one is 8-1/2″ by 11″. Either way provides 12 panels and the same number of square inches … Continue reading
This brochure was apparently printed the same date (June, 1959) and in the same quantity (50,000 copies) as yesterday’s. It is also the same size: 12 printed panels. Click image to download a 1.8-MB PDF of this brochure. It includes … Continue reading
