Here’s a beautiful piece of on-board stationery that I photographed at the Minnesota History Center. While the front cover, shown below, looks plain, it unfolds to reveal a brightly colored lithograph of Lower Yellowstone Falls and canyon. This is a … Continue reading
An ordinary number 10 business envelope, but the addition of the Great Northern logo in the upper left corner makes it railroad memorabilia. The logo dates it to between 1967 and 1970, and the lack of any tiny numbers suggests … Continue reading
Here’s a piece of stationery that NP staff might have used to write to customers or other railroads. It doesn’t have a return address, nor does it particularly focus on passenger or freight except to note that NP is the … Continue reading
This cheerful letterhead for Portland’s freight department features General Motors E units pulling a domeliner and Fairbanks-Morse Erie-built Diesels pulling a freight. UP acquired the Erie-built locomotives for passenger service between 1945 and 1948, but didn’t start running them in … Continue reading
At first glance, this appears to be an ordinary sheet of corporate letterhead. But it turns out to be four pages long (11″x17″ folded in half), with pages 2 through 4 devoted to photos advertising the vista-dome North Coast Limited. … Continue reading
