Streamliner Memories reader Sam Simons sent images of this Northern Pacific blotter advertising the company as the “Main Street of the Northwest.” Great Northern might have had fewer mountains to cross, but Northern Pacific’s main lines served most of Montana’s biggest cities: Billings, Bozeman, Butte, Helena, and Missoula.

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The only passenger content on this blotter is the slogan, “Route of the Streamlined North Coast Limited.” The railway first streamlined its premiere train in 1948 and continued to call it that until late 1952, when it speeded up the train and its advertising began referring to it as the “faster North Coast Limited.” (That’s also when it replaced its secondary train, the heavyweight Alaskan, with the streamlined Mainstreeter.) So the blotter must have been issued between 1948 and early 1952.