Upper Missouri Expedition Postcards

Posted on by January 22, 2019
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The Great Northern gave these postcards to members of the 1925 Upper Missouri Historical Expedition to send to friends and relations. I copied them from the Minnesota History Center.

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The first one shows the monument the railway erected in memory of David Thompson near a town that the railway had renamed “Verendrye.” Verendrye was a French explorer and Thompson a British Explorer and both had camped near this point several years apart — as did Lewis & Clark several years later. Continue reading →

1924 Oriental Limited Postcards

Posted on by January 22, 2019
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The Great Northern issued this series of postcards promoting its newly re-equipped Oriental Limited in 1924. We’ve already seen one of the cards in the series showing a P-2 locomotive pulling the train through the Washington Cascades. I copied all of these cards from the Great Northern advertising and publicity department archives in the Minnesota History Center.

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The first card shows a sleeping car made up for daytime use. The wall panels between the sections offered greater privacy than was found in some sleeping cars, which just had curtains between sections at night. Continue reading →

Burlington Route Direct to the Ranches

Posted on by November 25, 2018
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This inside of this 20-page booklet is nearly identical to Burlington’s 1947 dude ranch booklet, but the cover was so colorful that I added it to my collection anyway. The main differences, other than the cover, are the lists of dude ranches in the back: the 1947 edition lists 102, while by 1950 there were 120. Many of the ranches had also increased their weekly rates.

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The outside cover is cut to be larger than the inside pages, but this particular example has the inner pages stapled incorrectly. They are supposed to have an even border of the cover around the top, bottom, and sides, but the printer accidentally lined up the top edges of the cover with the inner pages. This means the text on the inside front cover doesn’t line up correctly with the text on the first inner page. A small flaw, but the kind of thing you notice when you scan every page.

Burlington 1935 Twin Zephyrs

Posted on by November 25, 2018
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Before introducing the eight-car “Train of the Gods” in 1936, Burlington started Twin Zephyr service with two three-car trains that externally were nearly identical to the original Zephyr. Inside, the original Zephyr had a railway post office, baggage compartment, and 72 seats, while Twin Zephyrs had no RPO, a larger kitchen to serve on-board meals, and 88 seats.

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Timber Billions of the Pacific Northwest

Posted on by January 16, 2019
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This is one of a series of booklets promoting the Pacific Northwest published by the Burlington along with its parents, GN and NP. We’ve previously seen one on world trade and one on minerals — but in the Northwest, timber was and is far more important than minerals.


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The phrase “timber billions” probably refers to billions of board feet (a board foot is one foot by one foot by one inch), not billions of dollars. The booklet estimates that the Northwest had a little over a trillion board feet of standing timber in 1925, most of it Douglas-fir in western Oregon and western Washington. While still standing, however, this timber was worth under a tenth of a penny a board foot in 1925, which means the total was worth something less than a billion dollars. After being cut down and transported to markets, of course, it was worth a lot more, but in those days most of the timber was pretty remote so the costs of getting it were high, which is why the Northwest had half the standing timber but produced less than a third of the nation’s wood supply. Continue reading →

Northern Pacific Plastichrome Cards

Posted on by October 29, 2018
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These two cards were printed for Northern Pacific by Colourpicture Publishers of Boston, which was associated with the Tichnor Brothers. The company trademarked the term “plastichrome” in November, 1965, so the cards may date from 1966 through 1970 — though the company may have used the name before formally trademarking it. The company went out of business in 2007.

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The first card shows a placid scene at an unidentified lake in Minnesota. The card notes that the state is the “Land of 10,000 Lakes,” which is actually an underestimate as the Minnesota DNR has counted 11,482 lakes of 10 acres or more, plus another 10,000 of 2.5 to 10 acres. Continue reading →

NP Mirro-Krome Postcards

Posted on by October 29, 2018
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These two postcards were printed for Northern Pacific by the H.S. Crocker Company , then of Chicago. Crocker dates back to 1856, when it started a print shop in Sacramento. The company still exists but now makes and prints lids and labels for food products and pharmaceuticals.

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The first card shows two of the distinctive features of the post-1955 North Coast Limited: the dome car and the on-board stewardess. From the stewardess’ hairstyle, I’d date this card to the late 1950s. By 1966, the hairstyle worn by stewardesses in NP publicity photos were very different. Continue reading →

Vista-Dome North Coast Limited Postcards

Posted on by October 28, 2018
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These oversized postcards are obviously from a completely different era than the ones presented in the last few days. I have more older postcards from the Minnesota History Center that I’ll get to soon, but these are from my own collection.


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First is one of my favorite images of the North Coast Limited, one we have seen before on the “Your Northwest Adventure” booklet. In one picture, it shows both the dome interior and exterior scenery (even if the scenery is a bit imaginary). Of course, a real photo like this would only be possible if someone removed the glass from the dome. Unfortunately, there is no information about who did the artwork. Continue reading →

Northern Pacific Centennial Menu

Posted on by October 28, 2018
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We’ve already seen a colorful 1963 menu celebrating the 80th anniversary of the completion of Northern Pacific’s line from Lake Superior to Puget Sound. The very next year, NP issued this menu celebrating the centennial of the legislation that provided the largest land grant in American history as an incentive to build the railroad. I wonder if anyone commented on the fact that, despite the generous land grant, it took 19 years to complete the project.

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This menu is a lot less colorful than the 1963 version but, unlike that one whose inside was blank, this one actually has a North Coast Limited dinner menu on the inside. The table d’hôte side includes five entrées: broiled fish, ham, lamb chops, beef stroganoff, and a 16-ounce sirloin steak. Most of the entrées are under $4 (about $32 today), but the sirloin steak is $5.50 ($44 today). These prices included a Big Baked Potato (but probably not a Great Big Baked Potato, which — at more than two pounds — was supposed to be a meal in itself), soup or juice, asparagus, corn muffins, salad, dessert, and beverage. Continue reading →

1966 North Coast Limited Service Guide

Posted on by January 10, 2019
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The North Coast Limited still had its observation car when this guide was issued, although it is only mentioned in the guide as a place where beverages were served. This is far different from the heavyweight observation car described in yesterday’s service guide, which had a barber/valet, showers, card room, and ladies’ lounge.

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Although the cover photo is different, much of the interior text of this service guide is the same as one that was issued in 1963. The cover photo on that one dates back to at least 1957, while the cover photo on this one was first used in 1964.