This menu is for a tour co-sponsored by Ohio Farmer and New England Homestead magazines. The latter appears to be out of business but Ohio Farmer is still published by Farm Progress, which also publishes Prairie Farmer, a sponsor of … Continue reading
Category Archives: Northern Pacific
The eastbound North Coast Limited shown on the cover of this menu is missing one of its four dome cars and one of its two flat-topped coaches, suggesting it is a winter consist. According to the Ron V. Nixon Photo … Continue reading
Like the menus presented in the last couple of days, this one is an 8-1/2″x11″ card. But unlike those menus, this one comes with the slogan, “Route of the Vista-Dome North Coast Limited,” so it is possible it was used … Continue reading
Here’s another menu that was probably used on the Mainstreeter. Compared with yesterday’s lunch menu, this one has a slightly more elaborate illustration of a train at the top of the menu rather than the bottom. The meals on the … Continue reading
The bottom of this menu has an illustration of a train that doesn’t have any dome cars, so the menu was likely used on the Mainstreeter or another secondary train, not the North Coast Limited. As an 8-1/2″x11″ card, not … Continue reading
We’ve previously seen a 1947 ranch vacations booklet. This one has similar text and some of the same photos, but most of the photos are new. Like the 1947 version, but unlike dude ranch booklets from other railroads, this one … Continue reading
I’ve shown this ad before in a post on Bern Hill’s artwork for General Motors. Since then I’ve acquired these sample advertisements distributed by the Kudner Agency of New York. Click image to download a 836-KB PDF of this ad. … Continue reading
Issued just a few months after the introduction of the semi-streamlined North Coast Limited, this timetable contains several pages of advertising for that train. This includes a description and photo of the observation car on the back cover plus two … Continue reading
This menu is dated June, 1948, so it was used on the semi-streamlined North Coast Limited, though the menu makes no mention of streamlining or includes advertising of any kind. The back of the elegant orange folder is completely blank. … Continue reading
In stressing that the North Coast Limited was completely air conditioned — including a diagram purporting to show how air conditioning worked — this booklet can be dated to about 1937, the first year, as far as I can tell, … Continue reading