The Northern Pacific was proud to call Gardiner the “original entrance to Yellowstone National Park” and, from 1903 until Union Pacific built to West Yellowstone in 1908, the only one reached by a railroad. These postcards show views in and … Continue reading
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I’ll be posting Northern Pacific postcards for the next several days. Today, I have three advertising the heavyweight North Coast Limited and two more that don’t fit into other categories. Except where noted, PDFs are about 400 to 500 kilobytes. … Continue reading
James J. Hill’s Great Northern Railway opened a magnificent station in Minneapolis in 1913. Although the station was prominently marked with the name “Great Northern,” it also served the Northern Pacific, Burlington, Chicago & North Western, Chicago Great Western, and … Continue reading
The photos in this folder follow the route of the Oriental Limited from St. Paul to Seattle. It is dated 1906, or one year after Great Northern inaugurated the train. Published by C.H. Shaver, a news agency in St. Paul, … Continue reading
This was a set of ten different postcards, but I only have five of the set. The cards are linen and say nothing about a streamlined Shasta Daylight, so I would guess they were issued either right before or right … Continue reading
These postcards all show Southern Pacific streamlined trains. None appear to have been issued by SP, but most were probably issued with the railroad’s cooperation to be sold at newstands in various SP train stations. Click any image to download … Continue reading
These postcards all appear to have been issued before 1920, and all but one of them from before 1915. One of cards is Southern Pacific issue, while the others were probably issued with the cooperation of the railroad. Click any … Continue reading
Southern Pacific opened up the Natron Cutoff in 1926, allowing trains to go over the Cascades instead of the Siskiyous. This postcard folder has a photo of the Golden Gate Bridge before it was painted orange. In fact, it is … Continue reading
This postcard folder is postmarked “Mailed from Summit Siskiyous, Top of World, Mt. Shasta 14,444 ft. elevation.” There’s no date on the postmark, but it must be later than yesterday’s, which was mailed with a penny stamp, as this one … Continue reading
Not counting the cover, this folder has twenty-two postcard-sized photos. About half are of scenes in California and half in Oregon. Although there are numerous photos of Southern Pacific trains and it uses Southern Pacific slogans (“the road of a … Continue reading