Although Yellowstone Park is mostly in Wyoming, the Gardiner Entrance to the park, along with the Cook City and West Yellowstone entrances, were all in Montana. So visitors to Yellowstone taking the Northern Pacific would likely see some of these … Continue reading
Here are some more Yellowstone postcards. Two of these are marked with the NP logo while the rest were made from photographs made for or copyrighted by the NP. White Elephant Terrace is part of the Mammoth Hot Springs complex. … Continue reading
A tourist visiting Mammoth and the geyser basins would follow up with a trip to Yellowstone Canyon. These postcards show the canyon and waterfalls in Yellowstone. Click on any image to download a PDF of that card. To get to … Continue reading
Though there are more than 300 geysers in Yellowstone Park, most people never see the eruption of more than one or, if they are lucky, two or three. Click on any image to download a 300- to 500-KB PDF of … Continue reading
From the Gardiner entrance, Mammoth Hot Springs was the first stop in Yellowstone Park. Mammoth was surrounded by terraces of a kind of limestone known as travertine. This color card is from a painting by Gustav Krollman, who made many … Continue reading
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
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
