This packet of sixteen color photos is dated 1943. Photos include three Southern Pacific trains: the Coast Daylight, San Joaquin Daylight, and City of San Francisco (with the Union Pacific and Chicago & North Western logos airbrushed away from the … Continue reading
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This 1939 brochure briefly mentions the Golden Gate, a Santa Fe streamlined train that connected Oakland with Bakersfield (with continuing bus service to Los Angeles), which had entered service the year before. It also briefly mentions the Golden Gate International … Continue reading
Eleven years have passed since the Great Northern issued yesterday’s photo booklet of Glacier Park, and what a difference a decade makes. In contrast to the clear but colorless photos in the 1938 publication, the photos in this 1949 booklet … Continue reading
This booklet is full of enticing photos of Glacier National Park. There are only two photos of the Empire Builder and one of the station at East Glacier, all on page 2. The rest show scenes tourists in 1938 were … Continue reading
This 1937 brochure was pitched to people wanting to relocate. It promises “farms for many” in a region with an “unrivaled future.” It lists livestock and crop production in terms of volumes and value, though the numbers are rather meaningless … Continue reading
It’s 1947, and the newly streamlined Empire Builder no longer stops at Glacier Park on its 45-hour journey across the Northwest. Instead, the revived Oriental Limited is the train to use by passengers wanting to visit the park. The S-2 … Continue reading
In 1928, the Spokane Chamber of Commerce and Spokane Merchant’s Association sponsored a “good-will tour of Montana” for Spokane business men. The tour left Spokane on July 23 on the Oriental Limited, arriving the next morning in Kalispell, where the … Continue reading
Although issued by the Great Northern, this brochure was aimed at California tourists and the four suggested tours would involve almost as much travel on the Southern Pacific and, in two cases, Canadian railroads as the Great Northern. Tour #2, … Continue reading
Dated 1940 (but first issued, with a different color cover, at least a couple of years earlier), this brochure is an update of The Scenic Northwest. Alas, in the intervening decade, the Great Northern either forgot about its historical expeditions … Continue reading
Nine years after the Columbia River Historical Expedition, the SP&S was still reminding people of it in this brochure. Page 2 includes a photo of the Wishram monument while page 7 has a photo of the Astor Column. Click image … Continue reading