Yellowstone Vacations

Posted on by September 23, 2021
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This is one of those booklets whose main cover (as shown below) is actually the back cover. This format was often used in booklets published by the Canadian National, Rock Island, and several other railroads but not, as I recall, by the Northern Pacific. Yet this one has the Northern Pacific logo on the cover.

Click image to download an 11.2-MB PDF of this 12-page booklet.

This isn’t really a paradox as the booklet was really published by the Yellowstone Park Lodge and Camps Company. Northern Pacific may have printed its logo on the cover, but otherwise nothing in the booklet is about the NP. Continue reading →

GN Tiny Brochure for Hawaii

Posted on by September 23, 2021
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Between 1959 and 1964, Great Northern put out a series of what I call tiny brochures because they folded up into about the size of a postcard. I’ve collected 21 of them which I am pretty sure is all of them except one for Hawaii. Here is the one for Hawaii.


Click image to download a 1.2-MB PDF of this brochure.

Great Northern, of course, didn’t reach Hawaii, but it could reach airports and seaports that could get people to Hawaii. Non-stop air service to Hawaii from Chicago or New York didn’t begin until 1969, and in 1960 rail travel was a lot less expensive than air travel, so for people in Chicago or the East a rail trip to Seattle or Portland might be a sensible start for a Hawaiian holiday as there was non-stop air service from those cities to Hawaii. Continue reading →

Publicity Photos of New Passenger Diesels

Posted on by September 1, 2021
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It’s always been a bit of a puzzle to me why the Great Northern didn’t use the “as-delivered” paint scheme for its E-7 Diesels when it put those locomotives into service pulling the 1947 streamlined Empire Builder. The orange-and-green colors now commonly known as the Empire Builder paint scheme were actually first used on the FT Diesels that General Motors delivered to GN in 1940. On the nose the green stripe broadened to provide a contrasting backdrop for the GN Rocky logo while on the sides the stripe was decorated with the words “Great Northern” in a traditional railroad Roman script whose letters were extended to make them readable at an angle.


In a 1940 publicity photo, GN FT locomotives pull a string of brand-new refrigerator cars whose color almost matches the orange of the locomotives. Click image for a larger view.

For the E7s, which were delivered in 1945, GM designers terminated the green stripe near the front of each locomotive, punctuating the end of the stripe with bold forward-facing Rocky logos that were not surrounded by the words, “Great Northern Railway.” Instead, the side also had the words “Great Northern” in a new, custom-designed typeface that is now aptly called the Empire Builder font. This made the side-view of the locomotives more dramatic than that of the freight locos. Continue reading →

Great Northern Tours

Posted on by September 23, 2021
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Each year from at least 1926 to 1941, GN and its partner railroads, NP and Burlington, produced a thick booklet, such as this one from 1937, describing escorted tours to destinations along their lines. This is a small brochure from Great Northern that focuses on a few of the tours that followed its routes.


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The brochure is undated but it has the 1936 Rocky logo so it must have been issued sometime after that. It says that one of the tours left Chicago on Saturday, June 19, and the only year between 1936 and 1941 that June 19 fell on a Saturday was 1937. So I presume this is from that year.

The Automated Rail Way

Posted on by September 23, 2021
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In about 1961, Union Pacific began using the phrase “automated rail way” in its advertising and on its box cars. The letters on the boxcars were often in eight different colors, though this notepad only uses two. Since “rail” was always underlined, the phrase was meant to distinguish rail from other ways, such as trucks or barges, not that Union Pacific was a railway (its corporate name was Union Pacific Railroad).

Click image to download a 168-KB PDF of this notepad.

Automated probably meant something different in 1961 than it does today. Union Pacific leased its first modern computer, an IBM 705, in 1958. Extremely primitive compared with, say, an iPhone, it used vacuum tubes instead of solid state transistors, filled at least one large room, and had the equivalent of what we would call about 80 kilobytes of RAM. UP used it for payroll, accounting, and inventory control. Continue reading →

Union Pacific April 1961 Timetable

Posted on by October 2, 2021
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In late 1960, Union Pacific changed the cover of its timetables from one that had a small map of its system to the fully detailed map of its lines as shown below. This map was used in place of the centerfold map that had been in earlier editions and helped the railroad reduce the size of its timetable from 52 to 44 pages.

Click image to download a 20.0-MB PDF of this 44-page timetable.

I’ve previously noted that all Union Pacific system timetables from 1951 through at least 1959 (and probably through mid-1960) followed the same outline so that the station index on pages 3 through 5 remained unchanged for this entire period. Surprisingly, the station index in this 1961 timetable is almost identical to the earlier ones, which was possible because the index refers to table numbers, not page numbers. A very careful reading reveals a few very minor changes, but for the most part all of the stations and tables remained intact, though obviously some of the tables are on different pages in this shorter timetable. Continue reading →

Union Pacific January 1959 Timetable

Posted on by October 2, 2021
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As noted yesterday, Union Pacific combined the Challenger with the City of Los Angeles in the off-peak seasons and ran them as separate trains in the peak seasons (including summers and the Christmas holidays). Although UP originally assigned dome-coaches and dome-lounges to the Challenger and dome-lounges and dome-diners to the City of Los Angeles, by 1957 all of the domes were listed with the City of Los Angeles. The back cover of this timetable lists the Challenger as a “streamliner,” not a “domeliner.”

Click image to download a 22.8-MB PDF of this 52-page timetable.

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Union Pacific June 1958 Timetable

Posted on by October 2, 2021
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“Beginning June 1st,” says the back cover of this timetable (which was contributed by a Streamliner Memories reader), “the Challenger will again operate as an ALL COACH Streamliner on its regular convenient summer schedule.” This refers to the fact that UP combined the Challenger and City of Los Angeles during the winter.

Click image to download a 23.3-MB PDF of this 52-page timetable.

Aimed at business travelers, the City of Los Angeles was timed to leave its terminal cities in the evening and take two nights and one day to get to the opposite terminal city, thus taking only one business day out of someone’s schedule. The Challenger was aimed at tourist travelers, so its summer schedule was timed to leave in the morning and arrive the following evening, thus allowing travelers to see most of the scenery along the route. Continue reading →

Union Pacific June 1957 Timetable

Posted on by October 2, 2021
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This timetable (which was contributed by a Streamliner Memories reader) is the first I have seen to include the City of Las Vegas. That train began operating in December, 1956, using the General Motors Aerotrain. UP continued to use that equipment through September, 1957, which means it was in use when this timetable was issued. After that, it used conventional streamlined cars.

Click image to download a 23.0-MB PDF of this 52-page timetable.
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This timetable just says the train consists of coaches and a buffet-lunch counter car. The train left Los Angeles at 8:00 am, arriving in Las Vegas at 3:00 pm, then after a quick turn left Vegas at 4:30 pm and arrived back in L.A. at 11:15 pm. This allowed UP to operate the train with just one set of equipment.

Bus Tours from Cedar City

Posted on by October 2, 2021
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We’ve seen a booklet with the same cover as this one from 1950. This one is dated 1955. For the first 33 pages, there are almost no differences between the two. Even the graphic of a steam-powered passenger train on page 19 was left in the 1955 edition despite the fact that, by then, UP passenger trains were almost completely Dieselized. The main differences are pages 34 through 37, which have updated photos of the interiors of UP’s dome cars and its latest lounge and dining cars.

Click image to download an 11.2-MB PDF of this 48-page booklet.

This booklet also came with an insert describing one- to five-day bus tours of Bryce, Cedar Breaks, Grand Canyon, and Zion parks. All tours began and ended at Cedar City. The one-day tour went to Zion only. Two days would visit Zion and spend the night at the Grand Canyon. Three days would spend nights at Zion and Bryce. Four days would spend nights at Zion, Grand Canyon, and Bryce. Five days would be the same but with two nights at the Grand Canyon. Continue reading →