Great Northern tracks didn’t actually go to Portland. Instead, it reached the city over its half-owned subsidiary, the Spokane, Portland & Seattle Railway, and through trackage rights from Seattle over the Northern Pacific. Still, in the 1960s, it managed to … Continue reading
Horning in on Canadian Pacific and Canadian National territory, this brochure invites travelers to take the Great Northern Railway to visit Banff, Lake Louise, and Jasper. To get from the Great Northern to these parks, says the brochure, travelers would … Continue reading
The Puget Sound was the ultimate western destination for Great Northern rail travelers, so it is appropriate that this brochure featured the region. Eleven color photos, a color drawing, and a map of the area provide an attractive introduction to … Continue reading
One advantage of the Great Northern’s tiny brochures was that travelers could pick the destinations that interested them instead of picking up a “Go East” brochure and finding that only a quarter of the brochure actually dealt with eastern destinations. … Continue reading
In 1960, less than five years after putting out a large brochure urging travelers to “Go East via Glacier National Park,” the Great Northern published this little brochure also aimed at travelers to the east. Although less than a third … Continue reading
Today we take a break from menus to present this eight-page brochure about the Denver & Rio Grande Western Railroad. It doesn’t have a date, but a map on page 7 shows the railroad as it appeared before 1963, when … Continue reading
The Seattle World’s Fair gave passenger service on the Great Northern, and presumably the Northern Pacific, a reprieve not granted to many other railroads. It didn’t hurt that the Milwaukee Road–afraid that its money-losing Olympian Hiawatha would actually make money … Continue reading
During the 1950s, Southern Pacific passenger trains featured at least six paint schemes, more than any other western railroad, and possibly more than any in the country. These included the orange-and-yellow Daylights; yellow-and-grey City of San Francisco; orange-and-silver Golden State; … Continue reading
This 1962 brochure advertises several Seaboard streamliners: the Silver Meteor, Silver Star, and Palmland from New York to Florida; the Silver Comet from New York to Atlanta and Birmingham; and the Gulf Wind from Jacksonville to Chattahoochee, Florida on the … Continue reading
This Burlington brochure encourages people to take the Texas Zephyr and connecting Sam Houston Zephyr to “Our American Riviera,” meaning the Gulf Coast. The brochure describes Brownsville, Corpus Christi, Galveston, Houston, New Orleans, and San Antonio, even though none of … Continue reading
