On October 3, 1952, Dwight Eisenhower spoke in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, on stage with Senator Joe McCarthy. McCarthy had just called Eisenhower’s colleague and friend, former Secretary of State George Marshall, a “traitor.” Eisenhower planned to defend his friend, but under … Continue reading
I found this illustration when going through a collection of photos of Budd Company-built trains in the Paul Crét collection at the University of Texas Architecture Library archives. The 1951 document is an artist’s conception of a train called the … Continue reading
This post-war brochure advertises “New Diesel Power for the North Coast Limited.” The brochure is dated 3-47, so the train itself would continue with pre-war heavyweight equipment for another year. Click image to download a 496-KB PDF of this brochure. … Continue reading
Unlike all the previous brochures in this series, this one actually has a date: 1-38. It is similar to the Portland brochure but with even more text: four pages are mostly text with small photos and one is all text, … Continue reading
This pictorial relies more on text than the ones of the last few days. It has three full-page photos and a fourth page with two photos. Three more pages have small photos but are mostly text and the last page … Continue reading
What this booklet calls the Red Lodge Highroad, but which is known today as the Beartooth Highway–opened in 1937, and from the text the NP issued this booklet the following year. In addition to the cover, six pages of this … Continue reading
This pictorial notes that Northern Pacific trains follow 44 rivers between Chicago and the Pacific Northwest. The pictorial shows five full-page and four half-page photos of some of these rivers. Click image to download a 7.8-MB PDF of this brochure. … Continue reading
Here is another brochure in the same series as yesterday’s, with four 8-1/2″x11″ panels that unfold into a brochure of about 33″x11″. Also like yesterday’s, this one is undated, but it uses the phrase “completely air-conditioned,” which puts it to … Continue reading
In the late 1930s, Northern Pacific issued a series of brochures that folded up to be 8-1/2″x11″ or a bit smaller. The brochures featured many black-and-white photos with the NP logo and a few headlines highlighted in red. This is … Continue reading
This booklet has the same out dimensions as yesterday’s (about 8-1/2″x11″), but is 16 pages long. Nine pages describe what dude ranches are like; two list well over 100 dude ranches, their locations, and typical daily rates, while a two-page … Continue reading
