It’s 1947, and the newly streamlined Empire Builder no longer stops at Glacier Park on its 45-hour journey across the Northwest. Instead, the revived Oriental Limited is the train to use by passengers wanting to visit the park. The S-2 … Continue reading
In 1928, the Spokane Chamber of Commerce and Spokane Merchant’s Association sponsored a “good-will tour of Montana” for Spokane business men. The tour left Spokane on July 23 on the Oriental Limited, arriving the next morning in Kalispell, where the … Continue reading
Although issued by the Great Northern, this brochure was aimed at California tourists and the four suggested tours would involve almost as much travel on the Southern Pacific and, in two cases, Canadian railroads as the Great Northern. Tour #2, … Continue reading
Dated 1940 (but first issued, with a different color cover, at least a couple of years earlier), this brochure is an update of The Scenic Northwest. Alas, in the intervening decade, the Great Northern either forgot about its historical expeditions … Continue reading
Nine years after the Columbia River Historical Expedition, the SP&S was still reminding people of it in this brochure. Page 2 includes a photo of the Wishram monument while page 7 has a photo of the Astor Column. Click image … Continue reading
Like the William Crooks booklet, this brochure is undated but must have been published in about 1929 because the cover picture shows locomotive 2552, a 4-8-4 that was delivered that year. If the booklet had been published a year or … Continue reading
Slightly marred by punch holes and sexism, this 1940 brochure invites “girls and men” to take the Great Northern Railway to a Montana, Idaho, Washington, or Oregon dude ranch. The brochure devotes a page to Glacier Park, four pages to … Continue reading
This incomplete document seems to be a mock-up for a brochure advertising Glacier Park hotels. The person I acquired it from thought it was from about 1916, which is possible as the three hotels mentioned were all built by that … Continue reading
The war was over and the streamlined Empire Builder was still a year away, but Great Northern was advertising its trains to Glacier National Park with this orange-and-blue brochure. While the orange foreshadows GN streamlined trains, it results in rather … Continue reading
This brochure advertises both Glacier National Park and the Golden Gate Exposition, which was held in both 1939 and 1940. The Great Northern Railway went by Glacier, of course, but no closer to San Francisco than Portland. But railroads never … Continue reading
