Here are several more blotters from the 1930s and 1940s. Scans of these blotters were contributed by a Streamliner Memories reader.
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This 1930 blotter advertises that the Empire Builder and Oriental Limited are “faster.” Although there was a general speed-up of major long-distance passenger trains at the end of the 1920s, one reason why these two trains in particular were faster was that the new Cascade Tunnel saved a lot of time in the Cascade Mountains.
Dated 1939, three years after GN revised its Rocky Mountain goat logo, this blotter advertises that “We serve the Northwest” with “fast freights.” Provincials in Oregon and Washington assume that “northwest” is exclusively reserved for them, but to people in GN’s headquarters state of Minnesota, “northwest” means everything north and west of Minnesota’s southeastern-most corner.
Although this blotter is not specifically dated, it refers to ore haulage in 1941, so it must be from 1942.
This blotter depicts Great Northern FT locomotive 5900. Great Northern was one of the first purchasers of FT diesels, and when delivered in 1941 this one was numbered 300. It was renumbered in 1943, so this blotter is probably from 1943 or 1944.
This blotter is undated, but the patriotic Red, White, and Blue suggests it, like the previous two, is from the war years of the early 1940s.
This 1948 blotter reminds shippers and agents that, with delivery of the streamlined Empire Builder, Great Northern once again was operating two daily passenger trains between Chicago and Seattle-Portland.