After using the color photo of the Empire Builder in Glacier Park on the cover of just two timetables–summer and winter, 1966–the railway decided to rebrand itself using Big Sky Blue in place of the orange-and-green train in that photo. … Continue reading
This is the 1966 version of the 1961 Pacific Northwest-California brochure. It offers a few more options. Most important, under a “new arrangement” with Western Airlines, GN travelers who arrived in Seattle or Portland can fly to San Francisco rather … Continue reading
In 1966, GN replaced its long-running blue timetable cover with this beautiful photograph of the Empire Builder along the south boundary of Glacier National Park. Note that the locomotives are painted in the pre-1962 colors rather than the later simplified … Continue reading
This companion to the Pacific Northwest-Calfornia tour brochure outlines one 14-day tour. Starting in Chicago, the estimated cost of the tour is about $280 coach (about $1,700 today), $370 roomette (about $2,200 today) including lodging, train and bus transportation (but … Continue reading
In just two years, Great Northern shed all but three of the 25 local and branch line trains found in its 1960 timetable. The only such trains remaining in 1962 were from Barnesville to Crookston, MN, Breckenridge, MN to Minot, … Continue reading
Here’s another example of a la carte tours as opposed to table d’hôte. Great Northern advertises “a grand circle tour of the Pacific Northwest and California,” but it really isn’t a tour so much as a design-your-own-vacation package listing rail … Continue reading
Great Northern’s summer, 1960 timetable had a similar cover to the 1957 timetable, but that similarity disguises dramatic changes in the schedules for some of the railway’s major trains. Most important, starting in the summer of 1960, trains 3 & … Continue reading
The dams it describes are anything but tiny, but this brochure is another in Great Northern’s series of what I call tiny brochures. Dated 1960, this one features Montana’s Hungry Horse Dam on the cover, and Grand Coulee, Chief Joseph, … Continue reading
For 1959, the Glacier Park Company issued a brochure that, at first glance, was almost identical to the 1958 edition. However, a close look reveals that, where the 1958 brochure opens to about 9″x24″, this one is just 9″x20″, meaning … Continue reading
The 32-page booklets that GN used to advertise Glacier as recently as 1949 have, less than a decade later, been replaced by this three-panel brochure, the equivalent of six pages. (Or perhaps there was also a 32-page booklet in 1958 … Continue reading
