Unlike the joint UP/C&NW booklets that offered tours from Chicago, this little brochure focuses on escorted tours from Los Angeles. Since Yellowstone and southern Utah parks could be reached from L.A. exclusively on UP rails, the brochure does not need … Continue reading
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This brochure offered Los Angeleans a seven-day, eight-night escorted tour of Yellowstone Park. The tour included a full day each at Old Faithful, Yellowstone Lake, the Grand Canyon of the Yellowstone, and Mammoth Hot Springs. Escorted tours left L.A. every … Continue reading
The Milwaukee Road did not have a great claim to have access to Yellowstone Park. Where the NP and UP went right to park entrances in Gardiner and West Yellowstone, Milwaukee’s closest approach to a park entrance was Gallatin Gateway, … Continue reading
This is the 1966 version of the 1961 Pacific Northwest-California brochure. It offers a few more options. Most important, under a “new arrangement” with Western Airlines, GN travelers who arrived in Seattle or Portland can fly to San Francisco rather … Continue reading
This companion to the Pacific Northwest-Calfornia tour brochure outlines one 14-day tour. Starting in Chicago, the estimated cost of the tour is about $280 coach (about $1,700 today), $370 roomette (about $2,200 today) including lodging, train and bus transportation (but … Continue reading
Here’s another example of a la carte tours as opposed to table d’hôte. Great Northern advertises “a grand circle tour of the Pacific Northwest and California,” but it really isn’t a tour so much as a design-your-own-vacation package listing rail … Continue reading
The dams it describes are anything but tiny, but this brochure is another in Great Northern’s series of what I call tiny brochures. Dated 1960, this one features Montana’s Hungry Horse Dam on the cover, and Grand Coulee, Chief Joseph, … Continue reading
For 1959, the Glacier Park Company issued a brochure that, at first glance, was almost identical to the 1958 edition. However, a close look reveals that, where the 1958 brochure opens to about 9″x24″, this one is just 9″x20″, meaning … Continue reading
The 32-page booklets that GN used to advertise Glacier as recently as 1949 have, less than a decade later, been replaced by this three-panel brochure, the equivalent of six pages. (Or perhaps there was also a 32-page booklet in 1958 … Continue reading
Based on the colors and size, the brochure looks like a companion to Great Northern’s Alaska cruises brochure. But that one dates to 1938 while this Northwest brochure is dated eighteen years later, so the colors are simply a coincidence … Continue reading