This 8″-by-11″ brochure unfolds into four panels of mostly full-page or half-page photos. Just one of the eight panels (counting both sides) has a significant amount of text. Click image to download a 3.9-MB PDF of this brochure. We now … Continue reading
At first glance, this seems to be another in the series of black-and-white brochures issued by the Northern Pacific in the late 1930s, such as the ones for Portland, the Rockies, and Rivers. But this one is smaller and doesn’t … Continue reading
This eight-day, ten-night tour from Chicago (eight nights from the Twin Cities) included two nights at Glacier Park Lodge, one at Prince of Wales, two at Many Glacier, and one at Lake McDonald. The day at the Glacier Park Lodge … Continue reading
This brochure offers a sixteen-day tour of Glacier, Waterton, Banff, and Yoho national parks. The tour began with a trip on the Western Star to West Glacier and a night at the Lake McDonald Hotel. A bus trip over the … Continue reading
Like a brochure from a couple of days ago, this one suggests a twelve-day tour, but it differs in many ways from the 1953 suggestion. The headline properly emphasizes Glacier Park as the tour suggestion spends four days in Glacier … Continue reading
The twelve-day tour recommended by this 1953 brochure spent two-and-one-half days in Yellowstone Park and five days in Waterton-Glacier national parks. This bias towards Great Northern-owned facilities was obvious, but any traveler fit enough to enjoy mountain hikes in Glacier … Continue reading
Folded or unfolded, this 1953 brochure is about the same size as Great Northern’s 1947 Puget Sound brochure. When folded, both are slightly larger than the “tiny” four-color brochures that GN would issue in the late 1950s, but the older … Continue reading
Here’s an offer I haven’t seen from any other railroad: ten days of food, lodging, and horseback riding at any of six different Montana dude ranches plus sleeping-car transportation from Chicago or Minneapolis-St. Paul (but not food on the train) … Continue reading
In 1961, Canadian National was finally using four-color photos to illustrate this six-panel brochure whose cover featured the yellow, green, and black color scheme of the railways streamlined trains. Ironically, soon after CN began using full-color advertisements, it repainted its … Continue reading
This eight-panel booklet advertises 1959 six-day, seven-night tours to Hudson Bay, with stops at Dauphin, Flin Flon, Cranberry Portage, The Pas, and most importantly Churchill, Manitoba. Today, Churchill is known for its polar bears, but in 1959 they probably didn’t … Continue reading
