As mentioned yesterday, Great Northern began using this timetable cover, featuring two F3 locomotives, in June 1951 to commemorate the inauguration of the Western Star. In 1954, it added a banner above each of the locomotives to announce that the Western Star had been rerouted to serve St. Cloud.

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This was followed in 1955 and 1956 with banners advertising “New Great Domes on the Empire Builder.” By the time of this 1957 timetable, the domes weren’t quite new, but the banners could brag that the Empire Builder had “more dome seats” than any other train as well as the more debatable claim that it had “more scenic miles.”

In June 1957, five months after this timetable was issued, the covers were changed to the dark blue version showing an eastbound Western Star passing a westbound Empire Builder in the vicinity of Glacier Park.