Printed in green ink with red highlights, this booklet describes the “West” as it might be defined by someone from Chicago: everything west of the Wisconsin-Minnesota line. Mostly it is the Northwest, meaning the northern tier of states west of and including Minnesota. But it also includes a page on “California via the Pacific Northwest.”

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The booklet prominently mentions the streamlined North Coast Limited, which was introduced in 1948. The interior pictures of the train are all drawings, not photographs, suggesting the booklet may have come out around the time that train was introduced, before the NP was able to take its own interior photos. There is one exterior photo of the entire train, but several of the cars in the photo are clearly heavyweights, so it was probably taken before 1948. So, while it could be from a year or three later, I’ll date it to 1948.