I have both the 20″x26″ and 26″x42″ versions of the 1968 calendar and they have the same differences from one another as the 1966 calendars: the photos are cropped differently and the typefaces used on the smaller calendar are wider … Continue reading
For 1967, Northern Pacific’s calendar featured a painting commissioned by General Electric showing off its U25C locomotive, a six-axle version of the 2500-horsepower U25B. As an advertisement for the locomotive, it was rather late, as the lead locomotive shown in … Continue reading
The ratio of 42 inches to 26 inches is much bigger than the ratio of 26 inches to 20 inches. In today’s digital world, NP’s (and GN’s) smaller calendars would be exact duplicates in miniature of the big calendars, which … Continue reading
Having featured the Seattle World’s Fair on its 1962 calendar, the company’s sort-of centennial on its 1963 calendar, and the North Coast Limited in 1964, NP no doubt felt it was time to get back to the railway’s bread and … Continue reading
Starting some time in the 1930s, Northern Pacific produced an annual calendar that displayed the entire year on one page. In the early years, the tops of the calendars simply had a Northern Pacific logo, but starting in 1955 other … Continue reading
This January-February, 1963 newsletter is supposed to be the first issue of volume 34, meaning it was first published in the 1920s. It is evidently aimed at travel agents as all of the stories relate to passenger travel, tourist destinations, … Continue reading
This is the first edition of a booklet that we’ve seen before with a different cover and many different interior photos. The painting on the cover of this booklet was done by Leslie Ragan for the Budd Company and, while … Continue reading
We’ve seen a Northern Pacific die-cut menu in the shape of an apple and a Salt Lake Route booklet in the shape of an orange. Great Northern even had a die-cut menu in the shape of a fish, which I … Continue reading
Although this menu looks a lot like the breakfast and lunch/dinner menus previously shown here, it is significantly smaller: 6×9 rather than 7-1/2×11-1/3. Unlike the food menus, this one isn’t blank on the back, instead using that space to summarize … Continue reading
This menu apparently served for either lunch or dinner. Since the meals on it were “available throughout the day,” someone could even use it to order breakfast. Click image to download a 782-KB PDF of this menu. Black sildenafil españa … Continue reading
