According to a book titled Railroad Postcards of Yellowstone, Northern Pacific bought “at least 34” postcards from the Acmegraph files. In fact, I found 36 in the Minnesota History Center’s Northern Pacific archives. These postcards are distinguished by having all … Continue reading
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Yesterday’s vista-dome Christmas brochure provides a nice segue into a series of Northern Pacific postcards that I photographed at the Minnesota History Center. Over the years, Northern Pacific issued hundreds if not thousands of postcards of Yellowstone Park, and these … Continue reading
Today’s first menu features a P2 mountain-type locomotive, the pride of the Great Northern in 1926, pulling the Oriental Limited by Mount Index in the Washington Cascades. While the 44-hour Chicago-Seattle streamlined Empire Builder would later pass this scene in … Continue reading
The Minnesota History Center GN archive is full of little items relating to the Columbia River Historical Expedition. One of the educational features of the expedition was a museum car, curated by the Minnesota Historical Society’s Willoughby Babcock. This brochure … Continue reading
Here are two more menus used by American Legionnaires going home from the 1938 convention in Los Angeles. We’ve seen both of these covers before, but these come with a couple of extras. Click image to download a 2.3-MB PDF … Continue reading
Here are few items from the Milwaukee Road. One is from my collection, but most are just images I found on the web. Click image to download a 456-KB PDF of this envelope. First is this ticket envelope advertising the … Continue reading
In 1974, Spokane held an international exposition to celebrate the relocation of Burlington Northern and Union Pacific tracks from directly through to around the downtown area. Unfortunately, this also meant the destruction of two of the city’s three train stations, … Continue reading
The Chesapeake & Ohio was the first railroad to order a 4-8-2 locomotive in 1911. That locomotive and tender weighed about 549,000 pounds and developed about 58,000 pounds of tractive effort. Rival Baltimore & Ohio did not try this wheel … Continue reading
Here are five postcards from two different eras featuring the Denver & Rio Grande railroads. The first three were printed in Germany, which dates them to before World War I. Click any image to download a PDF of that postcard. … Continue reading
Issued by Curt Teich, this folder contains about 22 color lithographs (including two on the covers), half of which show the Rio Grande portion of the route and the other half the Western Pacific. The quality of the images is … Continue reading