This card is for E-7 locomotives built for the Golden State. The back of the card provides specifications similar to the … Continue reading
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For many years, General Motors issued a series of 7.5″x3.3″ cards for each of the locomotives it built for the various railroads. This card is for E-7 locomotives built for the Shasta Daylight. Click image to download a PDF of … Continue reading
This score pad for bridge doesn’t have a date on it, but it was designed if not printed in the early 1950s. It lists four streamlined trains including the Empire Builder without mentioning dome cars. It also lists the Winnipeg … Continue reading
As in any commercial kitchen, dining car cooks wore hats to keep sweat and hair out of food. Railroads must have ordered them by the thousands; even today, such paper hats with a generic design cost less than 10 cents … Continue reading
Like hotels, railroads offered all kinds of services and conveniences to passengers, especially overnight passengers. It didn’t hurt that things like this sewing kit also Quit smoking and do exercise daily Smoking affects the elasticity of their generic super viagra … Continue reading
Initially, at least, the Great Northern tried to offer nearly identical service on the Western Star as on the Mid-Century Empire Builder. The railway had two routes from Minneapolis to Fargo; two from Fargo to Minot; and two from Havre … Continue reading
It may be true that nothing could be finer than eating in a diner, but waiting in line for a seat in the dining car was a hassle. A few railroads avoided that by offering passengers reservations. What medications interact … Continue reading
Though nominally competitors, after 1900 the Great Northern and Northern Pacific had several major stockholders in common, notably the Great Northern’s founder, James J. Hill. As a result, the railroads had many things in common, including sharing a headquarters building … Continue reading
Like its cross-border rival, the Canadian Pacific, the Great Northern published a brochure advising photographers how to take photos through the tinted glass windows of the dome cars. But where the Canadian Pacific brochure merely advised photographers to account for … Continue reading
Taking photos through tinted glass can result in strange colors (or, in Canada, strange colours), so Canadian Pacific published this little brochure advising camera buffs to use certain filters and/or overexpose the photos. Curiously, when I tried to correct for … Continue reading