Unlike the Overland Limited, the Portland Limited wasn’t an all-Pullman train, but this booklet is just as elaborate as yesterday’s. It uses the same typefaces, many of the same drawings, and the floor plans on page 15 show that the two trains shared nearly identical observation cars. However, the Overland Limited had a club car at the front of the train that wasn’t found on the Portland Limited.

Click image to download a 1.4-MB PDF of this 20-page booklet.

The front cover of this booklet has less filagree than yesterday’s, but it does have a logo that hints at the grandeur of the Columbia River Gorge. Both the logo and the color are identical to a blotter we’ve seen advertising this train.

While the theme of yesterday’s booklet was “finest & fastest,” the theme of this one is “only thru train between Chicago and Portland.” Both Great Northern and Northern Pacific offered through cars between Chicago and Portland via their subsidiary, Spokane, Portland & Seattle. Strictly speaking these weren’t thru trains so the UP booklet is accurate, but passengers on the GN and NP would hardly know the difference unless they were westbound and happened to wander into the wrong car while their train was being divided up in Spokane or Pasco.

The Portland Limited was replaced by the Portland Rose on September 7, 1930, so this booklet must have been published before then. Like yesterday’s booklet, this one was printed by Acorn Press, while Poole Brothers printed UP’s name-train booklets as late as 1929. So, like yesterday’s, I’m dating it to 1930 (before September) though late 1929 is also a possibility.