Long train trips could be boring, so club cars sold playing cards and provided score pads. I’ve already shown a Great Northern bridge score sheet, but this 1959 pad is for bridge, gin rummy, and canasta. Click to download a … Continue reading
Great Northern’s summer 1955 timetable was the first to feature dome cars on the Empire Builder. The domes are illustrated in an ad on the back cover whose drawing is carefully cropped to disguise the fact that the dome closest … Continue reading
The streamlined Empire Builder was introduced in February, 1947, so this is the first summer timetable featuring that train. A full 21 pages of this 44-page booklet are devoted to Great Northern trains (including connecting Burlington and SP&S trains), partly … Continue reading
This baggage tag doesn’t have a date, but the Rocky logo dates it to 1967 or later. The back of the tag indicates it was specially made for tour groups, and this particular tag was used for a “Univ Hi” … Continue reading
In the summer of 1948, little more than a year after Great Northern introduced the streamlined Empire Builder, Chicago held what some have called the “last great rail fair.” Great Northern was one of 39 railroads that participated. Click image … Continue reading
This full-sized brochure appears to have been published in 1964 (a tiny code reads “100264” and the address includes a zip code; zip codes were introduced in July, 1963). This suggests that the Great Northern was giving up on the … Continue reading
This brochure describes some of the many annual festivals to be seen along the Great Northern’s line. Photographs portray the Minneapolis Aquatennial, Portland Rose Festival, Spokane Lilac Festival, St. Paul Winter Carnival, Tacoma-Puyallup Daffodil Festival, Wenatchee Apple Blossom Festival, and … Continue reading
This brochure focusing on Glacier Park’s little sister, Waterton Lakes National Park, is dated 1961 and features ten color photos, two color drawings, and a map showing how easy it is for visitors to Glacier Park to take a side … Continue reading
Continuing its rivalry with the Canadian Pacific, the only railroad that actually served both Vancouver and Victoria BC, the Great Northern issued this tiny brochure that might be dated 1964. Like the Portland brochure, this one is three across and … Continue reading
Great Northern tracks didn’t actually go to Portland. Instead, it reached the city over its half-owned subsidiary, the Spokane, Portland & Seattle Railway, and through trackage rights from Seattle over the Northern Pacific. Still, in the 1960s, it managed to … Continue reading
