Old Bill Luggage Stickers

Posted on by January 24, 2019
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These luggage stickers, which I copied from Minnesota History Center files, feature Old Bill, which is what the Great Northern called the animal in its original mountain goat logo. Rocky replaced Old Bill in 1936.

Click any image to download a PDF of the sticker in that image.

In this image, Old Bill seems to be standing on the rocks where Going to the Sun Chalets were located. Although Great Northern did not invent the phrase “See America First,” it was the first to use it in a national advertising campaign that included painting it on thousands of boxcars. I wonder if the fact that GN could stand for either Great Northern or Glacier National influenced the railway’s decision to heavily advertise the park. Continue reading →

Glacier Park Chalet Luggage Stickers

Posted on by November 25, 2018
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While the hotel stickers shown yesterday were all rectangles, many of the chalet stickers were cut in distinctive patterns. Although it is unlikely that a tourist would visit all of the chalets on one trip, I’ve sorted these into roughly the order a tourist would see them if they were traveling east to west through the park.

Click any image to download a PDF of that sticker.

Two Medicine Lake is the first stop after leaving East Glacier and the Glacier Park Hotel. The lake is the source of the Two Medicine River, whose topography forms the background for the spectacular Two Medicine Bridge which was and still is crossed by the Empire Builder. Continue reading →

Glacier Park Hotel Luggage Stickers

Posted on by November 25, 2018
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Great Northern and its subsidiary, the Glacier Park Hotel Company, issued a variety of luggage stickers over the years. I found these in the Minnesota History Center. Stickers had minor variations from year to year. Since one of these is for the Prince of Wales Hotel, which opened in 1927, these particular stickers must date from that year or one or two years later, as I was only searching in that period.

Click any image to download a PDF of that sticker.

Unlike most of the other GN hotels and chalets, the Glacier Park Hotel was not in a national park but on railroad-owned land right outside the park. It did offer great views of the mountains. Continue reading →

1925 Glacier Park Postcards

Posted on by January 22, 2019
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These postcards are from the same series as yesterday’s, but exclusively show scenery rather than lodges and chalets. Except for the first one, these sights could all be found not far from Many Glacier Hotel.

Click image to download a 184-KB PDF of this postcard.

St. Mary’s Lake and Going to the Sun Mountain would have been one of the first glorious sights seen on a horseback trip into Glacier. The Going to the Sun Chalets were on the lake positioned to get a view of the mountain, so aren’t in this picture. Continue reading →

Glacier Park Hotel Postcards

Posted on by January 22, 2019
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Although these postcards are undated, I found them in a folder with other items from 1925 at the Minnesota History Center. These show various Great Northern-built hotels and lodges in the park.

Click image to download a 184-KB PDF of this postcard.

Most visitors to the park stepped off of a Great Northern train at Midvale, which GN renamed East Glacier. The station there is just a few steps away from the Glacier Park Hotel. Continue reading →

Upper Missouri Expedition Postcards

Posted on by January 22, 2019
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The Great Northern gave these postcards to members of the 1925 Upper Missouri Historical Expedition to send to friends and relations. I copied them from the Minnesota History Center.

Click image to download a 160-KB PDF of this postcard.

The first one shows the monument the railway erected in memory of David Thompson near a town that the railway had renamed “Verendrye.” Verendrye was a French explorer and Thompson a British Explorer and both had camped near this point several years apart — as did Lewis & Clark several years later. Continue reading →

1924 Oriental Limited Postcards

Posted on by January 22, 2019
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The Great Northern issued this series of postcards promoting its newly re-equipped Oriental Limited in 1924. We’ve already seen one of the cards in the series showing a P-2 locomotive pulling the train through the Washington Cascades. I copied all of these cards from the Great Northern advertising and publicity department archives in the Minnesota History Center.

Click image to download a 172-KB PDF of this postcard.

The first card shows a sleeping car made up for daytime use. The wall panels between the sections offered greater privacy than was found in some sleeping cars, which just had curtains between sections at night. Continue reading →

Burlington Route Direct to the Ranches

Posted on by November 25, 2018
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This inside of this 20-page booklet is nearly identical to Burlington’s 1947 dude ranch booklet, but the cover was so colorful that I added it to my collection anyway. The main differences, other than the cover, are the lists of dude ranches in the back: the 1947 edition lists 102, while by 1950 there were 120. Many of the ranches had also increased their weekly rates.

Click image to download a 9.6-MB PDF of this booklet.
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The outside cover is cut to be larger than the inside pages, but this particular example has the inner pages stapled incorrectly. They are supposed to have an even border of the cover around the top, bottom, and sides, but the printer accidentally lined up the top edges of the cover with the inner pages. This means the text on the inside front cover doesn’t line up correctly with the text on the first inner page. A small flaw, but the kind of thing you notice when you scan every page.

Burlington 1935 Twin Zephyrs

Posted on by November 25, 2018
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Before introducing the eight-car “Train of the Gods” in 1936, Burlington started Twin Zephyr service with two three-car trains that externally were nearly identical to the original Zephyr. Inside, the original Zephyr had a railway post office, baggage compartment, and 72 seats, while Twin Zephyrs had no RPO, a larger kitchen to serve on-board meals, and 88 seats.

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Timber Billions of the Pacific Northwest

Posted on by January 16, 2019
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This is one of a series of booklets promoting the Pacific Northwest published by the Burlington along with its parents, GN and NP. We’ve previously seen one on world trade and one on minerals — but in the Northwest, timber was and is far more important than minerals.


Click image to download a 8.9-MB PDF of this 36-page booklet.

The phrase “timber billions” probably refers to billions of board feet (a board foot is one foot by one foot by one inch), not billions of dollars. The booklet estimates that the Northwest had a little over a trillion board feet of standing timber in 1925, most of it Douglas-fir in western Oregon and western Washington. While still standing, however, this timber was worth under a tenth of a penny a board foot in 1925, which means the total was worth something less than a billion dollars. After being cut down and transported to markets, of course, it was worth a lot more, but in those days most of the timber was pretty remote so the costs of getting it were high, which is why the Northwest had half the standing timber but produced less than a third of the nation’s wood supply. Continue reading →