Today we have several postcards advertising the streamlined North Coast Limited. The first shows off this train’s boring paint scheme as it crosses the Stone Arch Bridge between St. Paul and Minneapolis. The effect of streamlining is reduced somewhat by … Continue reading
Unlike yesterday’s cards, these advertise that the North Coast Limited was “completely air-conditioned.” These means they were issued in 1937 or later. Click image to download a 413-KB PDF of this postcard. This postcard manages to show the Roosevelt Arch … Continue reading
These postcards used just two colors of ink–dark green and a reddish orange–so I’m calling them duotones. NP published an extensive series of duotones that overlapped the “air-conditioned” and “completely air-conditioned” eras. Today I’ll show marked “air-conditioned,” meaning they were … Continue reading
I’ve previously posted the fronts of these along with nine other postcards that the Boston Public Library has posted on Flickr. Unfortunately, most people who post postcards on Flickr only show the front, not the back. Below are three complete … Continue reading
Postcards and other memorabilia can sometimes be dated merely by the use of a particular slogan. In this case, “air-conditioned” means the card was probably issued in 1935 or 1936; in 1937 the slogan was changed to “completely air-conditioned.” Click … Continue reading
These three cards advertised the North Coast Limited, but don’t mention air conditioning. This suggests they were issued before 1935. Click image to download a 287-KB PDF of this postcard. The first card shows Mt. Rainier, but most of the … Continue reading
Most Northern Pacific postcards specifically advertise the North Coast Limited, but these four do not. The first, which is from about 1911, advertises NP diners without mentioning the North Coast Limited in particular. NP was the first rail line to … Continue reading
In about 1940, twenty-five cents would buy you this packet of ten different black-and-white postcards showing scenes along the Great Northern from St. Paul to the Pacific Northwest. I’m guessing on the date, but one postcard shows a view of … Continue reading
Here’s a set of eleven Your America postcards issued by the Union Pacific right after World War II to encourage people to resume traveling. The postcards were illustrated by the Willmarth Studio of Omaha, which did a lot of illustration … Continue reading
These postcards were all issued by Union Pacific to advertise its trains to various national parks. As usual, click images to download PDFs of the postcards, most of which are under 400 KB in size. Many of these cards are … Continue reading
