This brochure offers one-day, two-day, and three-day tours of Glacier National Park. The one-day tours cost $23.76 ($280 in today’s money) including bus transport in the park, boat fare on Two Medicine Lake, four meals, and one night’s lodging. Starting at the Glacier Park Hotel, the tour went to Two Medicine Lake, then over the Going-to-the-Sun Road to Lake McDonald.

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Two-day tours cost $36.72 (about $435 today), including bus and boat fare, seven meals, and two nights’ lodging. This covered the same route as the two-day tour but with a side trip to Many Glacier. The three-day tours were $54.56 ($650 today) including bus fare, ten meals, and three nights’ lodging and included side trips to both Many Glacier and Prince of Wales hotels.

The prices quoted were for rooms without baths (except at Prince of Wales, which only had rooms with baths), but rooms with baths were available at an extra cost. My conversions to “today’s” prices are actually to 2020 dollars, so add another 5 or 10 percent for inflation since then.

The Oriental Limited arriving at East Glacier.

The back of the brochure is an illustrated map of the park with the tour routes labeled in black. The map also shows the Oriental Limited arriving in East Glacier, apparently pulled by A-B-A models of General Motors locomotives. GN didn’t own any E-7 B units, so these must be F units.

I was skeptical of how realistic this was, as this Diesel locomotive roster indicates that GN didn’t take delivery of any F-3 B passenger units until August 1948, four months after this brochure was printed. However, photographer Ron Nixon took pictures of the Oriental Limited pulled by A-B-A F-3 units on July 5, 1948, a month before they were supposed to have been delivered. F-3 A units for passenger service were delivered as early as 1946, so perhaps the B unit in the photo/illustration is from an order for freight locomotives.