By 1963, when it issued this brochure, Northern Pacific had finally brought its flagship train up to the standard set by the Empire Builder by the addition of new diners and home-rebuilt Traveller’s Rest cars, both of which are pictured … Continue reading
This booklet is nearly identical to a 1954 edition posted here a few days ago. The big difference, other than the date on the back cover, is that some of the text and photographs are printed in blue rather than … Continue reading
The back cover of this timetable announces that “new Vista-Domes are coming!” That’s certainly worth an exclamation point as the domes launched the North Coast Limited from a train distinctly inferior to the Empire Builder to one that had at … Continue reading
This 52-page booklet is filled with black-and-white photos of the park as it appeared in 1939. The text includes a one-page essay by Emerson Hough that was also included in Northern Pacific’s 1954 booklet (and no doubt several others). Click … Continue reading
This 44-page booklet is too fancy for NP to have given it out to ordinary tourists, and doesn’t have a price so it probably wasn’t sold. Instead, it was probably given to travel agents to help them sell trips to … Continue reading
This booklet is dated 1954, the year Northern Pacific introduced the Loewy color scheme for its passenger trains and dome cars for the North Coast Limited. But there’s no sign of either change in the booklet, which shows the Pine … Continue reading
Northern Pacific’s 1953 timetable advertises the “faster North Coast Limited.” This means it was faster than the old North Coast Limited, not faster than its competitors, the Empire Builder and Olympian Hiawatha. Although the train was mostly streamlined in 1948, … Continue reading
Burlington, Great Northern, and Union Pacific dude ranch booklets typically included a few pages describing dude ranch vacations followed by many pages of one- or two-paragraph descriptions of all the dude ranches near each railroad’s lines. Northern Pacific did it … Continue reading
This brochure, which is clearly marked 1939, appears to be an update from an earlier brochure that I estimated was issued around 1937. The earlier brochure is titled “Through the American Rockies” while this one uses the more generic “American … Continue reading
An earlier booklet with this name provided generic information about hotels, lodges, and other destinations. This one is more specific, suggesting nine different tours along with transportation fares for each one and some idea of hotel rates in various parks … Continue reading
