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The front of this brochure features eighteen photos of sights along the Great Northern from St. Paul to Seattle. Instead of a full-spread map, the map on the back covers only about a third of the page with the rest … Continue reading
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The Great Northern published many “aeroplane maps” of Glacier National Park over the years, and David Rumsey has several in his collection. The one I’ve presented here before is undated but is from sometime after 1927 (when the Prince of … Continue reading
In 1924, GN completely re-equipped the Oriental Limited with mostly all-steel cars. The new cars were such an improvement that for the next five years GN invariably called the train “the New Oriental Limited.” Among the amenities not found on … Continue reading
The Great Northern punched its line through the Cascade Mountains to Seattle in January 1893, almost a decade after Northern Pacific and eight years after Union Pacific reached Portland. While NP didn’t name any of its trains or offer a … Continue reading
What a difference a single year can make when a railroad is being managed by someone as dynamic as James J. Hill! I previously noted a railroad whose timetable was unchanged in the eight years between 1878 and 1886. By … Continue reading
In 1870, only a few hundred people farmed a few thousand acres in the Red River Valley of northwestern Minnesota and eastern North Dakota. Then James J. Hill blanketed the valley with rail lines of the St. Paul, Minneapolis & … Continue reading
We’ve previously seen eight different timetables with this cover, including May 1964 and May 1965. Somehow I overlooked this January 1965 edition. Click image to download a 16.7-MB PDF of this 28-page. In the mid-1960s, Great Northern published three timetables … Continue reading
This brochure offers one-day, two-day, and three-day tours of Glacier National Park. The one-day tours cost $23.76 ($280 in today’s money) including bus transport in the park, boat fare on Two Medicine Lake, four meals, and one night’s lodging. Starting … Continue reading
About a year ago, I posted a 1928 Great Northern Railway brochure advertising air service between Minneapolis and Chicago. This potentially saved passengers aboard the eastbound Oriental Limited several hours of their journey. Since the Pennsylvania Railroad didn’t start joint … Continue reading
These two pairs of See America First postcards have the same photos on the front but different rhymes on the back. The first pair shows Going to the Sun Camp. This opened as a dining hall and cabins for 38 … Continue reading