This brochure starts out aiming to sell Portland as a location for conventions but ends up suggesting a ten-day tour of the Portland area. The tour includes four days in Portland, two on the Columbia River Highway and Mt. Hood, two in Astoria, and one in “Salem-McMinnville or some other loop trip.” That’s only nine days; for some reason — perhaps the writer couldn’t think of anything else — the tenth day goes back to Mt. Hood.
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“Five transcontinental railway systems have their terminus at Portland,” claims the brochure. I count only two, and perhaps three: Union Pacific for certain; Southern Pacific to the extent that its northern terminus was Portland; and Northern Pacific only because it had a line from its western terminus in Tacoma to Portland.
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The brochure writers may count Great Northern — after all, it is a Great Northern brochure — but the truth is the Great Northern didn’t even have a line to Portland. Instead, it went over the Northern Pacific from the north and the Spokane, Portland & Seattle from the east. The SP&S doesn’t count either as it was hardly a transcontinental.
I found and photographed this brochure at the Minnesota History Center. The only date in the brochure refers to average temperatures in 1923, so I date it to 1924 or possibly 1925.
It sounds like a brochure writer was exaggerating (not for the first or last time!)…in this case, exaggerating the SP&S’s importance. But it was, after all, *part of* a transcontinental *system,* providing the GN & NP’s cross-country trains a direct route into Portland, and crossing through the Cascade Mountains in doing so.
And even the Northern Pacific’s main line from Seattle stopped at Vancouver, WA…its trains had to run over the SP&S’s tracks to get across the Columbia River and into Portland.
They can’t have it both ways: either the SP&S was part of a transcontinental terminating in Portland (though it didn’t; it continued on to the coast) or the GN, going over SP&S tracks, terminated in Portland. Counting both is double counting.