We’ve previously seen Northern Pacific’s 8-1/2″x11″ brochures for the North Dakota badlands, Yellowstone, dude ranches, the Mount Baker National Forest, Portland, Seattle, Tacoma, rivers, the Rockies, and mountains in general. This one covers the East, as in the eastern United … Continue reading
Like yesterday’s item, this is a brochure, not a booklet. It is filled with color photos, including three of CN’s Super Continental, but the cover photo is simply not as dramatic as black-and-white photos used on earlier booklets. In addition, … Continue reading
A few days ago, I chided a 1952 Canadian National booklet for calling Canada’s eastern provinces the “provinces by the sea” when British Columbia (among other Canadian provinces) is also by the sea. This 1959 publication corrects that, referring to … Continue reading
The 1949 Detroit conventioneer who collected the menus and timetables either had time when laying over in Denver to take a trip down to Colorado Springs or picked up this brochure for future reference. The cog railway trip took 4-1/2 … Continue reading
In 1928, passengers arriving in Minneapolis on the Oriental Limited, Winnipeg Limited, or Red River early in the morning could continue onto Chicago on the Oriental Limited, arriving at 7 pm. Or, thanks to this innovative new service, they could … Continue reading
James J. Hill is well known for having built the Great Northern and for revolutionizing the railroad business in many ways. But he was also an egomaniac who alienated many of his subordinates (such as Henry Minot). He also spent … Continue reading
Unlike the brochures presented over the past few days, this one says very little about its purported subject, California. Of eighteen photos in the brochure, exactly zero depict California. Instead, they all show the Great Northern way across the country, … Continue reading
Fifty miles long and as little as one-third of a mile wide, Lake Chelan is “a stupendous and splendid fjord,” says this brochure. It was hard to reach in the 1920s and remains little known outside of the state of … Continue reading
Tacoma was the “lumber capital of the world” when this brochure was published. That’s no longer true, but it still has a reputation of being more of an industrial city as opposed to Seattle’s high-tech economic base. Tacoma is also … Continue reading
This brochure describes some of the landmarks and sights in Spokane which, when the brochure came out, had a population of about 110,000 people (it is double that today). One of the landmarks is the Davenport Hotel, “one of the … Continue reading
