The tour described in this brochure from the NPRHA — Lorenz Schrenk collection is different from the ones in shown in the last two days, mainly by including a trip to the Grand Tetons. The basic tour starts in Livingston … Continue reading
This brochure, from the NRPHA — Lorenz Schrenk collection, advertises the same three-day tours through Yellowstone that were listed in yesterday’s: one for westbound travelers that went through Cody and one for eastbound travelers that went through Red Lodge. Due … Continue reading
By 1964, Northern Pacific had gone from issuing 68-page booklets about Yellowstone to four-page brochures. Even the NP brochures about Yellowstone in the 1920s and 1938s were more than twice as big as this when unfolded. At a time when … Continue reading
Here are some pretty envelopes that I photographed at the Minnesota History Center. The first one features an illustration of a North Coast Limited vista-dome that we have previously seen on 1960-1963 timetables and a 1969 booklet. The envelope was … Continue reading
This booklet, which is from the NPRHA — Lorenz Schrenk collection, is dated August 1955. NP probably reissued a similar booklet with minor updates every year in the late 1950s and early 1960s, but this was one of the first … Continue reading
“Beginning June 20, 1949, the Northern Pacific will inaugurate new sightseeing bus service for Yellowstone Park travelers,” says this booklet, “to better reveal to them the majestic and inspiring mountain views between Livingston, Montana and the Gardiner Gateway.” Sadly, this … Continue reading
This post-war booklet briefly describes 22 escorted tours and 36 independent tours people could take of the West. Most of the tours used more than one railroad but so long as they used the Northern Pacific for part of their … Continue reading
Here’s an attractive luggage sticker I found at the Minnesota History Center. The colorful sticker uses the NP monad logo to simultaneously show a two-toned green train traveling through Northwest forests and present the railroad’s “Main Street of the Northwest” … Continue reading
Printed in green ink with red highlights, this booklet describes the “West” as it might be defined by someone from Chicago: everything west of the Wisconsin-Minnesota line. Mostly it is the Northwest, meaning the northern tier of states west of … Continue reading
People taking the Northern Pacific to or from the Golden Gate International Exposition would probably want to take at least a day or two to stop at Mount Rainier along the way. This booklet shows them what they might see … Continue reading
