The Great Northern introduced 58-seat semi-streamlined coaches to the Empire Builder in 1937. Though they had the same shape as streamlined cars, they were built with rivets and rolled on six-wheel trucks, suggesting they were as heavy or nearly as heavy as traditional heavyweight cars. Half of this brochure advertises these cars while the other half advertises tourist sleeping cars.
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previously seen a brochure about these “luxury coaches” that is dated November, 1937. While today’s brochure is undated, it appears to be older as the photographs in the other brochure show antimacassars on the seats while in this brochure the seats are bare.
We’veThis brochure unfolds to be slightly larger than 8-1/2″x11″. The vertical “Great Northern Railway ★” shown in the above picture is actually on a different panel from the “cover” panel, but the cover panel is not as wide as the others so when folded it looks as shown above.