In the summer of 1948, little more than a year after Great Northern introduced the streamlined Empire Builder, Chicago held what some have called the “last great rail fair.” Great Northern was one of 39 railroads that participated. Click image … Continue reading
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This full-sized brochure appears to have been published in 1964 (a tiny code reads “100264” and the address includes a zip code; zip codes were introduced in July, 1963). This suggests that the Great Northern was giving up on the … Continue reading
This brochure describes some of the many annual festivals to be seen along the Great Northern’s line. Photographs portray the Minneapolis Aquatennial, Portland Rose Festival, Spokane Lilac Festival, St. Paul Winter Carnival, Tacoma-Puyallup Daffodil Festival, Wenatchee Apple Blossom Festival, and … Continue reading
This brochure focusing on Glacier Park’s little sister, Waterton Lakes National Park, is dated 1961 and features ten color photos, two color drawings, and a map showing how easy it is for visitors to Glacier Park to take a side … Continue reading
Continuing its rivalry with the Canadian Pacific, the only railroad that actually served both Vancouver and Victoria BC, the Great Northern issued this tiny brochure that might be dated 1964. Like the Portland brochure, this one is three across and … Continue reading
Great Northern tracks didn’t actually go to Portland. Instead, it reached the city over its half-owned subsidiary, the Spokane, Portland & Seattle Railway, and through trackage rights from Seattle over the Northern Pacific. Still, in the 1960s, it managed to … Continue reading
Horning in on Canadian Pacific and Canadian National territory, this brochure invites travelers to take the Great Northern Railway to visit Banff, Lake Louise, and Jasper. To get from the Great Northern to these parks, says the brochure, travelers would … Continue reading
The Puget Sound was the ultimate western destination for Great Northern rail travelers, so it is appropriate that this brochure featured the region. Eleven color photos, a color drawing, and a map of the area provide an attractive introduction to … Continue reading
One advantage of the Great Northern’s tiny brochures was that travelers could pick the destinations that interested them instead of picking up a “Go East” brochure and finding that only a quarter of the brochure actually dealt with eastern destinations. … Continue reading
In 1960, less than five years after putting out a large brochure urging travelers to “Go East via Glacier National Park,” the Great Northern published this little brochure also aimed at travelers to the east. Although less than a third … Continue reading