America’s Greatest Vacationland

Posted on by September 23, 2021
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We’ve previously seen a 1951 booklet with this same title. That one had a page or three each on Yellowstone, Oregon, Washington, Alaska, and other Northwest destinations.

Click image to download a 17.9-MB PDF of this 40-page booklet.

This one is different. After six pages describing the Olympian and Milwaukee’s route to the Pacific, this booklet focused on possible tours. This includes four unescorted tours: 1) Chicago to Seattle on the Milwaukee then (after a ferry ride to Vancouver) return on the Canadian Pacific/Soo Line; 2) Chicago-Seattle on the Milwaukee, Seattle-LA on the SP, LA-Kansas City via Grand Canyon on the Santa Fe, and KC to Chicago on the Milwaukee; 3) Chicago-Seattle on the Milwaukee then return the same route; 4) Chicago-Gallatin Gateway on the Milwaukee, a tour of Yellowstone, then West Yellowstone to Salt Lake on the UP, the Royal Gorge Route to Denver, and Denver to Chicago on the UP/C&NW. Continue reading →

Wild and Beautiful

Posted on by September 23, 2021
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Many people have heard of the Beartooth Highway, advertised by the Northern Pacific as the Red Lodge High Road, which connects Red Lodge with Cooke City and the northeast entrance to Yellowstone. Roving reporter Charles Kuralt called it “the most beautiful road in America,” and he wasn’t far wrong.

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Not so famous but almost as spectacular is Chief Joseph Pass, which connects Cody to Cooke City and overlooks Sunlight Basin, a huge valley surround by the Shoshone National Forest. Of all the intriguing lands that surround Yellowstone, Sunlight is my favorite, so I was pleased to find this 1950 brochure inviting travelers to “add a day to Yellowstone trips for Sunlight Basin,” the “Shangri-la of Wyoming.” Continue reading →

The Open Range Is Calling You

Posted on by September 23, 2021
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“When life closes in about you and you feel the need of an unusual vacation, head for the Open Range!” suggests the back of this menu. “The American West and a Rocky Mountain Dude Ranch are names to conjure with wherever vacation places and vacation travel are mentioned.” Part of the appeal, the front cover photo suggests, is handsome cowboys leading your horseback trips and lovely young waitresses in the dining hall.

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Cape Elizabeth, Washington Coast

Posted on by September 23, 2021
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As with yesterday’s photo, geologic forces have reshaped Washington’s coast since Asahel Curtis took the photo on this menu card, probably a little more than a century ago. The photo shows Cape Elizabeth, on the Quinault Indian Reservation, as seen through one of two arches that were once found on this beach. One of the arches has since collapsed, and while the other arch (which appears to be the one in this photo) still existed as of 1970, it may also be gone by now.

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As with yesterday’s card, I photographed this at the Minnesota History Center. Although both cards have the same advertisement for NP club meals, this one does not have a stamp on it asking people to recognize Curtis’ copyright when republishing the photo.

Mount Saint Helens & Spirit Lake

Posted on by September 23, 2021
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Here’s Mount Saint Helens from Spirit Lake as viewed by Asahel Curtis a century or so ago. Unusual for these photo menus, the back of the card (which I photographed at the Minnesota History Center) is stamped, “In reproducing this picture, the following credit must be given: copyright Asahel Curtis for Northern Pacific Railway.” Something must have made Curtis defensive about his photos.

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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.


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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).

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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 →