This brochure, from the NRPHA — Lorenz Schrenk collection, advertises the same three-day tours through Yellowstone that were listed in yesterday’s: one for westbound travelers that went through Cody and one for eastbound travelers that went through Red Lodge. Due … Continue reading
By 1964, Northern Pacific had gone from issuing 68-page booklets about Yellowstone to four-page brochures. Even the NP brochures about Yellowstone in the 1920s and 1938s were more than twice as big as this when unfolded. At a time when … Continue reading
Here’s one more Northern Pacific/Alaska Steamship brochure from the NPRHA — Lorenz Schrenk collection. Several of the tour prices in this brochure are a little higher than in Great Northern’s 1936 brochure but a little lower than Great Northern’s 1938 … Continue reading
This brochure is similar to yesterday’s, but it advertises a “completely air conditioned” North Coast Limited. That dates it to at least 1935. Like yesterday’s, this booklet is courtesy of NPRHA — Lorenz Schrenk collection. Click image to download a … Continue reading
“All American” meant taking the Northern Pacific or another U.S. railroad to Seattle and then taking an Alaska Steamship Company ship rather than a Canadian Pacific or Canadian National ship to Alaska. This brochure is mostly about Alaska but at … Continue reading
Other than the cover and the godawful yellow paper it is printed on, this brochure is almost identical to the 1928 edition presented here a couple of days ago. The yellow paper is not an improvement, but it might have … Continue reading
The 68-page Magic Yellowstone booklets presented here yesterday included an essay by conservationist and novelist Emerson Hough (1857-1923). That same essay is included on three panels of this eighteen-panel brochure. The brochure also has lots of black-and-white photos, a brief … Continue reading
This brochure, which is from the NPRHA — Lorenz Schrenk collection, is similar in basic format to yesterday’s. However, the map on the back is completely different, being an oblique aerial view of the region showing geographic relief. While 11 … Continue reading
This brochure advertises trips to Yellowstone National Park under what today would be considered primitive conditions. Roads were dirt, vehicles were bumpy stagecoaches, and while the brochure says that the park’s four hotels “compare favorably with those of metropolitan cities,” … Continue reading
Sometime in the late 1940s, SP&S adopted this timetable cover–green with its large red oval logo on top and two smaller logos of parent GN and NP railways below–and used it for about two decades. This one, dated October 1958, … Continue reading
