The twelve-day tour recommended by this 1953 brochure spent two-and-one-half days in Yellowstone Park and five days in Waterton-Glacier national parks. This bias towards Great Northern-owned facilities was obvious, but any traveler fit enough to enjoy mountain hikes in Glacier … Continue reading
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Folded or unfolded, this 1953 brochure is about the same size as Great Northern’s 1947 Puget Sound brochure. When folded, both are slightly larger than the “tiny” four-color brochures that GN would issue in the late 1950s, but the older … Continue reading
Here’s an offer I haven’t seen from any other railroad: ten days of food, lodging, and horseback riding at any of six different Montana dude ranches plus sleeping-car transportation from Chicago or Minneapolis-St. Paul (but not food on the train) … Continue reading
In 1961, Canadian National was finally using four-color photos to illustrate this six-panel brochure whose cover featured the yellow, green, and black color scheme of the railways streamlined trains. Ironically, soon after CN began using full-color advertisements, it repainted its … Continue reading
This eight-panel booklet advertises 1959 six-day, seven-night tours to Hudson Bay, with stops at Dauphin, Flin Flon, Cranberry Portage, The Pas, and most importantly Churchill, Manitoba. Today, Churchill is known for its polar bears, but in 1959 they probably didn’t … Continue reading
One group that benefitted from the creation of Amtrak was the Alaska Railroad and its passengers. Amtrak didn’t buy much equipment from the Union Pacific, so UP sold many of its cars to the Alaska Railroad for use on its … Continue reading
The front of this brochure advertises the Jasper-routed Canadian. Unusually for this series of brochures, the back is divided into three panels advertising the Skeena to Prince Rupert (with an overnight stay in Prince George aimed at allowing passengers to … Continue reading
Here’s another VIA brochure that is not laid out in a panel format. It is focused on Eastern trains, but apparently that mainly meant the Ocean from Montreal to Halifax. Except for the Chaleur, most of VIA’s other eastern trains … Continue reading
Like the Alaska Railroad, many Canadian trains will–on advance notice–stop anywhere, not just at designated stations. This brochure advertises that the trains will carry bicycles, skis, and canoes and drop people off in an “area that may be so isolated … Continue reading
Unfolded to 16″-by-22″, one side of this brochure has fourteen color photos of Jasper, the Rockies, the Fraser River, and Vancouver, plus a small simplified map of the VIA system. The other side has detailed maps and an along-the-way guide … Continue reading