This brochure advertises the short-lived all-Pullman train that Northern Pacific operated from Minneapolis-St. Paul to Gardiner in the park season, which would have been June 16 to September 15 in the year the brochure was issued. The six-panel brochure includes a half a dozen photos of the train and several photos of Yellowstone including the Frank Haynes garbage-dump bear photo on the cover.
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Wikipedia’s not-always-reliable list of named-passenger trains doesn’t include a Northern Pacific Comet, but it does list the Yellowstone Comet as a train that operated from 1926 to 1932. However, I’m pretty sure I found this in the same Minnesota History Center file as yesterday’s 1924 North Coast Limited brochure. Continue reading