Issued just a few months after the introduction of the semi-streamlined North Coast Limited, this timetable contains several pages of advertising for that train. This includes a description and photo of the observation car on the back cover plus two pages in the back showing the new kinds of accommodations available on the train: roomettes, duplex roomettes, double bedrooms, and compartments, most of which would have been unfamiliar to people used to heavyweight trains.
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Those pages are attached to a curious little page in the front that is only 2-3/4-inches wide. The back of this page is blank while the front says, “For the last word in travel luxury, see pages 33A, 33B, and back cover.” The operative word here is “last” for more reasons than one.
A black-and-white version of the photo on this postcard is also on the back of the above timetable. Click image to download a 193-KB PDF of this postcard.
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Northern Pacific was the last of the northwest transcontinentals to streamline its premiere train (and even in 1948 it wasn’t fully streamlined), and that train was also last in its on-board amenities. Compared to the Empire Builder‘s 27-seat observation car, with its Winold Reiss paintings between the windows and Hudson Bay blanket-inspired curtains, the North Coast Limited‘s 25-seat observation car was barren of decoration. Both the Empire Builder and Milwaukee Road’s Olympian Hiawatha also had nicer mid-train coffee shop cars and full diners while the North Coast Limited had only a partial diner (the other part being a lunch counter).
Anyone wanting to travel from Chicago to the Northwest or back would have also found that the North Coast Limited was last in speed. Where the Empire Builder and Olympian Hiawatha each took 45 hours, the North Coast Limited took 56 hours. In fact, it barely kept up with Great Northern’s secondary train, the Oriental Limited, which made more stops and went over a longer route. Even Union Pacific’s City of Portland, connecting with a Portland-Seattle pool train, was faster.
I acquired this timetable because I was intrigued by the above photo of two westbound trains in Paradise, Montana, which Dale Jones posted on his Railroads of Montana web site. On the left is the Alaskan, NP’s secondary train, while on the right is the North Coast Limited. The timetable shows the Alaskan was supposed to depart Paradise about three hours before the North Coast Limited arrived, so the former train must have been late that day.