This undated booklet is filled with somewhat muddy black-and-white photos and interesting little art nouveau-style graphics. The booklet features the National Park Inn that was an early accommodation for those who wished to visit the park and Paradise Inn that outshone the National Park Inn in both its setting and grandeur.
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It’s always interesting to try to date booklets like this. The clues this time are the status of the two inns, the brief descriptions of the North Coast Limited, and the names of the mountain guides who were willing to lead people to the summit of Mount Rainier. Paradise Inn opened in 1917 and an annex opened in late 1920. The annex appears in photos in the booklet, so it must be from after that year.
The National Park Inn opened in 1906 and part of it burned in 1926. The only photo of it in the booklet isn’t clear enough to show whether it was the part that burned so is no help.
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The booklet refers to the NP route as “2000 miles of startling beauty.” This is the name of another booklet previously posted here that is dated 1926. But NP continued issuing this booklet at least through 1938 and may have first issued it before 1926.
Finally, the booklet describes “the new North Coast Limiteds” as the “Five Million Dollar Travel Triumph” with “new beautiful observation-club cars” that have “a wider, permanently railed observation platform with a searchlight for night seeing, a valet, ladies’ maid, ladies’ lounge,” and other features. NP’s 1926 timetable also mentions the new observation car and uses the phrase “travel triumph.” However, railroads tended to apply the word “new” to their trains for several years after they were introduced.
Unfortunately, I don’t have enough additional NP literature from the 1920s determine exactly when the NP made its “five million dollar” purchase. Charles Wood’s somewhat unreliable 1968 book on the Northern Pacific says that the train was re-equipped in 1909 and again in 1930, information that is repeated by Wikipedia. However, I find it hard to believe that the NP didn’t re-equip it at least one other time in that 21-year period, and probably closer to 1920 than 1926. In any case, I am tentatively dating this booklet to 1925.