The Winold Reiss Indian menus in my collection, as well as any others I’ve seen, all seem to be for breakfast or lunch. At least from 1940 through 1947, when the streamlined Empire Builder was introduced, Great Northern dinner menus … Continue reading
This undated lunch menu features Riding Black Horse. A photo below shows someone named Bob Riding Black Horses in a 1905 parade in Alberta. Would that have been the man in the Reiss portrait or his son? Other photos show … Continue reading
In the 1930s, the Great Northern used paintings by its favorite artist, Winold Reiss, on the covers of some of its menus. Reiss had produced more than 50 Indian portraits that were purchased for the railway by Louis Hill, the … Continue reading
This stationery was made available to first-class passengers in the air-conditioned observation compartment car of the Winnipeg Limited, which operated between the Twin Cities and Winnipeg. As previously noted, only the first-class cars It is an overall male cialis generico … Continue reading
This little brochure is undated but is probably from somewhere between 1938, when the Winnipeg Limited began, and World War II. The brochure describes the all-heavyweight version of the train whose streamlined version was previously featured here. Click image to … Continue reading
This 1940 brochure prominently mentions that the Great Northern has installed air conditioning in the heavyweight Empire Builder. Air conditioning is not the only new technology featured aboard the train: Page 3 has a photo of young people tuning a … Continue reading
I have two Great Northern condensed timetables for the summer of 1965, one that was “effective May 23-September 6” and one “effective August 22-October 31.” The only substantive difference I can find is that, on the earlier timetable, train number … Continue reading
Starting in 1957, the Great Northern put this eye-catching cover on its complete timetables. Whereas the 1947 and 1951 timetable covers were printed with just two colors (green and orange), with green print on all inside pages, this timetable cover … Continue reading
The lack of four-color photos in this brochure advertising tourist cabins initially led me to think it was from the 1930s. But in fact it is dated March 1955, when the Western Star was the Great Northern’s train to the … Continue reading
This condensed timetable requires just four pages the same size as the full 1955 timetable. The condensed version gives the schedules for Great Northern’s main trains, leaving out the dozens of local trains that the railroad was rapidly discontinuing anyway. … Continue reading
