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
Category Archives: Great Northern
The 1947 Oriental Limited consisted of hand-me-down equipment from the pre-streamlined Empire Builder. The train’s dining cars also received hand-me-down menus, in this case a menu with the same cover as one used on the Empire Builder in 1940. Click … Continue reading
By 1949, Great Northern was using menus with Charlie Russell paintings on the cover for the streamlined Empire Builder. But when the train began operating in 1947, the menus were simpler, with a sketch of the train on the cover … Continue reading
This menu shows just how many more choices dining car patrons had before World War II than after. The table d’hôte (“plate dinner”) side has seven different entrées, ranging from roast duck to charcoal grilled dinner steak. The a la … Continue reading
This 1939 booklet is one of the first in which the Great Northern used color photos, no doubt partly inspired by the introduction of Kodachrome in 1935. Though limited to the inside and outside front and back covers, the color … Continue reading
The Park Service declared Glacier to be the nation’s “foremost trail park,” apparently by virtue of it being supported by 800 horses, more than any other park. This booklet contains a few pages of text and 30 pages of black-and-white … Continue reading
Here are several more blotters from the 1930s and 1940s. Scans of these blotters were contributed by a Streamliner Memories reader. Click any image to download a PDF of that blotter. PDFs are between 600 KB and 1.0 MB. This … Continue reading
These four blotters feature Langdon Kihn or Winold Reiss paintings. Dates indicate they were issued monthly, but unlike some monthly blotters didn’t include a calendar. Click any image to download a PDF of that blotter. PDFs are under 700 KB. … Continue reading
The picture on the cover of this menu was also used on a blotter and no doubt other advertising materials. It depicts the launch St. Mary near Going to the Sun Chalets, visible on the hillside. This was the first … Continue reading
Although this along-the-way booklet is undated, it was published soon after the 1926 Columbia River Historical Expedition, as the centerfold map shows both a “modern map of the Northwest” and a “historic map of the Northwest.” These are the same … Continue reading