In what may have been another attempt to preempt Union Pacific’s upcoming centennial for completion of the first transcontinental railroad, Northern Pacific decided to make 1964 its centennial year, even though nothing happened that year other than President Lincoln signing … Continue reading
The Union Pacific would celebrate the centennial of its Last Spike ceremony in 1969. Perhaps in an effort to preempt this, Northern Pacific put a picture of its own Last Spike train on the cover of its menus in 1963, … Continue reading
After three years of using this illustration, this would be the penultimate Northern Pacific timetable to feature the close-up view of a dome car on the cover. I don’t have an October, 1963 timetable, which used this same cover, but … Continue reading
The cover of this timetable is the same as that of the October, 1960 edition shown here a few days ago. Shockingly, the biggest change in the timetable is the addition of a full hour to the time of the … Continue reading
The Seattle World’s Fair greatly boosted the passenger traffic on Northwest railroads, and Northern Pacific celebrated with this colorful menu. Although this particular menu is dated July, 1962, the cover image was an artist’s impression made before the fair began. … Continue reading
This ticket envelope was printed in November, 1961. It was used by a Portlander named Paul Munsell who took the North Coast Limited to Chicago, then an Illinois Central train to Rantoul, Illinois. For some reason, on the return trip, … Continue reading
Northern Pacific’s May, 1960 timetable had the same cover, featuring the North Coast Limited‘s observation car, that had been used on NP timetable covers since at least May, 1957. But the October timetable shown here features instead the dome car … Continue reading
This one-page brochure provides very brief town-by-town descriptions of the route of the vista-dome North Coast Limited. A couple of years later, NP would publish a much-more beautiful full-color booklet of Scenic Highlights, but that too just contained brief descriptions … Continue reading
This history booklet isn’t dated, but the last referenced date is to “early in 1958,” when the railway finished Dieselizing. So I suspect it was published in 1958 or possibly 1959. Click image to download a 5.7-MB PDF of this … Continue reading
While the Great Northern often put out three timetables a year in the 1950s and 1960s, the Northern Pacific seemed to update theirs just twice a year in May and October. Here is the October update to yesterday’s May 1957 … Continue reading
