Horning in on Canadian Pacific and Canadian National territory, this brochure invites travelers to take the Great Northern Railway to visit Banff, Lake Louise, and Jasper. To get from the Great Northern to these parks, says the brochure, travelers would … Continue reading
The Puget Sound was the ultimate western destination for Great Northern rail travelers, so it is appropriate that this brochure featured the region. Eleven color photos, a color drawing, and a map of the area provide an attractive introduction to … Continue reading
One advantage of the Great Northern’s tiny brochures was that travelers could pick the destinations that interested them instead of picking up a “Go East” brochure and finding that only a quarter of the brochure actually dealt with eastern destinations. … Continue reading
In 1960, less than five years after putting out a large brochure urging travelers to “Go East via Glacier National Park,” the Great Northern published this little brochure also aimed at travelers to the east. Although less than a third … Continue reading
As we have seen, during the 1950s the Great Northern endeavored to make the Western Star the match of the Empire Builder in every way except for not providing dome cars (and even then added one dome coach to the … Continue reading
The Northern Pacific gave children aboard the North Coast Limited a paper engineer’s hat, while the Great Northern incorporated a Rocky Mountain goat mask into its children’s menu. Some of these are decreased blood flow on the temporal lobes due … Continue reading
After the GN had painted one set of Empire Builder equipment Big Sky Blue, it ran a publicity train from Chicago to Seattle. After that, the newly painted cars were mixed in with the orange-and-green cars and it is difficult … Continue reading
Even as the Seattle World’s Fair started up, the Great Northern was simplifying the paint scheme of its Diesel locomotives. Since the railroad had first purchased FT Diesels in 1941, it painted them Pullman green with two large orange stripes, … Continue reading
The Seattle World’s Fair gave passenger service on the Great Northern, and presumably the Northern Pacific, a reprieve not granted to many other railroads. It didn’t hurt that the Milwaukee Road–afraid that its money-losing Olympian Hiawatha would actually make money … Continue reading
The five trains on the cover of this ticket envelope–really more of a ticket folder–is the first clue that it was for the 1947 Empire Builder, as Great Northern advertising made much of the fact that the railway had purchased … Continue reading
