The Park Service declared Glacier to be the nation’s “foremost trail park,” apparently by virtue of it being supported by 800 horses, more than any other park. This booklet contains a few pages of text and 30 pages of black-and-white … Continue reading
The last major Glacier Park-area hotel built by the Great Northern, the Prince of Wales Hotel in Canada’s Waterton Lakes National Park was built partly to allow American tourists to legally imbibe in alcoholic beverages during the prohibition era. Louis … Continue reading
Participants in Great Northern’s 1925 Upper Missouri Historical Expedition were able to call upon a library of more than 100 books and other publications. These ranged from articles in various history society journals to the edited journals of the Lewis … Continue reading
In the 1950s, Italian stylists were capturing worldwide attention with their designs, and the train on the cover of this booklet is one of the results. Called the ETR (for electric train rapid) 300 and nicknamed the Settebello, or Beautiful … Continue reading
In competition the London Midland & Scottish Railway’s Royal Scot between London and Glasgow, the London & North Eastern offered the Flying Scotsman. Written for Americans thinking of touring England and Scotland, this booklet has a five-page forward introducing British … Continue reading
“Jasper’s got it all,” proclaims this booklet. One thing it didn’t have in 1964, however, was a decent graphics artist to represent itself, as this booklet would be a strong contender for the worst-designed advertising presented on Streamliner Memories. First … Continue reading
As of 1952, when this booklet was issued, Canadian National had not yet graduated to four-color photos, which is odd both because rival Canadian Pacific used them as early as 1936 and because most of the pages in this booklet … Continue reading
This booklet describes scenery accessible on Canadian Pacific’s routes west of Winnipeg. It seems to be a mate to an Eastern Canada booklet shown here previously. The Eastern Canada booklet was marked “5110” on the back cover, which I interpreted … Continue reading
The White Pass & Yukon Route ran trains, ships, river boats, and–as shown in this 36-page booklet–buses in the name of its subsidiary, the British Yukon Navigation Company. Most of this booklet is printed in a green-tinted ink, but it … Continue reading
Published some time in the 1930s, this 36-page booklet contains beautiful paintings by Spokane artist John Segesman and text by someone named Frederick Hiren Niven. Update: I’ve found a copy of this booklet with an insert listing possible tours. The … Continue reading
