Air-Conditioned North Coast Limited Postcards

Postcards and other memorabilia can sometimes be dated merely by the use of a particular slogan. In this case, “air-conditioned” means the card was probably issued in 1935 or 1936; in 1937 the slogan was changed to “completely air-conditioned.”

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The first card shows one of NP’s A-2 locomotives, that is, the third class of 4-8-4 locomotives built for the railway. (The first class was A, then A-1.) The 77-inch drivers dwarf the little boy, but the 16-foot-tall, 110-foot-long locomotive would dwarf just about anyone. I’ve seen other postcards with the same photo in black-and-white, but this one is printed in green on both sides.

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This card identifies Red Cloud as “Sioux,” but today the proper term is “Oglala Lakota.” Unfortunately, the card doesn’t give the name of the artist.

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The last two cards show paintings of cowboys. Northern Pacific evidently issued a series of such cards in the air-conditioned era; several more are illustrated in a book titled Railroad Postcards of Yellowstone. Again, the cards fail to name the artist.

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