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Yellowstone Wildlife in 1912

Posted on December 30, 2018 by Train LoverDecember 31, 2018

Yellowstone Park and the national forests that surround it are one of the largest wild areas left in the contiguous 48 states, and they have become a haven for many species of wildlife ever since the army stopped the hunting of bison and other animals in the park. These postcards show some of the charismatic megafauna that may be seen to this day in the area.

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This postcard shows pronghorns, one of the fastest mammals alive, near the Gardiner entrance to Yellowstone. Continue reading →

Old Faithful in 1912

Posted on December 29, 2018 by Train LoverSeptember 10, 2018

Robert Reamer’s masterpiece, Old Faithful Inn was opened in 1904 by the Yellowstone Park Company, which had been started by the Northern Pacific.

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This close-up photo shows part of the east wing of the Inn, which is the wing closest to Old Faithful geyser itself. Tourists could sit on the porch on the right side of the photo and watch the eruptions. Continue reading →

Touring Yellowstone in 1912

Posted on December 28, 2018 by Train LoverSeptember 11, 2018

Roads from Mammoth head both south to the geyser basins and east through the Lamar Valley and eventually to Yellowstone Canyon. Most people would go south as it led to the quickest payoff in terms of unique and unusual sites.

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Before reaching the geyers, carriages and stagecoaches had to climb from Mammoth’s 6,700 feet to Kingman Pass’s 7,400 feet. The route went through Golden Gate Canyon, which was named by the army, and which required a precarious bridge built on the side of a cliff. Continue reading →

Mammoth Hot Springs in 1912

Posted on December 27, 2018 by Train LoverDecember 28, 2018

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 printing on the backs in red ink.

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The first stop for Yellowstone visitors entering via Gardiner was Mammoth Hot Springs and, usually, the Mammoth Hotel. This is the original hotel, sometimes called the National Hotel. It was extensively modified, including demolition of the upper stories, in 1913 and then completely replaced in 1936. The 1913 modifications and 1936 hotel were designed by Robert Reamer, who also designed Old Faithful Inn and many other park buildings. Continue reading →

Traveling to Yellowstone in 1912

Posted on December 26, 2018 by Train LoverSeptember 11, 2018

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 date to about 1912.

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Although the cards don’t say so, these were printed by a Chicago postcard company called Acmegraph, which existed from 1908 to 1918, a period that roughly coincides with the Golden Age of postcards. Acmegraph gladly printed cards for NP with the railway’s name on them, and the only indication that they came from Acmegraph is the file number shown on the front of most of the cards. This first card shows NP tracks along the Yellowstone River on the railway’s main line east of Livingston. Continue reading →

Santa’s Taking the Vista-Dome Way

Posted on December 25, 2018 by Train LoverSeptember 10, 2018

This cute little brochure opens up to reveal Santa and some of his reindeer riding in a dome car. The brochure is undated, but probably was issued in 1954, the year NP added domes to the North Coast Limited.

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Season’s Greetings

Posted on December 24, 2018 by Train LoverSeptember 10, 2018

These menus make a big deal of the fact that C&O/B&O employees wear a sprig of holly during the Christmas season, a tradition “started in 1948.” No doubt it was started on the B&O, as some of the holly came from a “now nationally famous Holly Tree growing beside our right-of-way at Jackson, Maryland.”

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What’s with the backwards apostrophe in “Season’s”? People who worry about the correct usage of apostrophes would probably get upset at this little punctuation error. At least they didn’t make the same mistake in the 1970 Christmas menu. Continue reading →

Chesapeake & Ohio 1966 Calendar

Posted on December 23, 2018 by Train LoverJuly 25, 2018

Every railfan has favorite railroads, and Chesapeake & Ohio is not one of mine. Robert Young tried to do some interesting things with, but Robert Young was a crazy man whose connection to reality was somewhat tenuous. I probably don’t like it because many of the acquisitions and mergers it made starting in the 1960s tended to reduce rather than enhance competition.

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Anyway, it isn’t surprising that I find this calendar to be a big disappointment. As every internet user knows, people love cat pictures, and C&O made the most of this using its mascot, Chessie, to advertise its passenger service. It had dozens of paintings of Chessie that it used on its one-page calendars. Yet for 1966, it made this 28-page calendar using a grand total of two drawings of Chessie. Continue reading →

C&O/B&O 1964 Timetable Revisions

Posted on December 22, 2018 by Train LoverJune 5, 2018

We’ve previously seen an April, 1964 timetable for the combined C&O/B&O passenger systems. This four-page brochure is a revision to a slightly previous timetable.

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The revisions deal mainly with trains to or from Detroit. Several of these trains, the timetable says, “now use Fort Street Station,” which was the closest thing Detroit had to a union station. But the city also had two other stations, and I’m not sure which stations the trains in this revision previously used.

C&O 1957 Calendar

Posted on December 21, 2018 by Train LoverJune 5, 2018

The only passenger content in this calendar is Chessie, C&O’s symbol of its comfortable passenger trains. In 1933, C&O paid Austrian artist Guido Gruenwald five whole dollars for the rights to use his drawing of a sleepy cat; Gruenwald died before the railroad first used it.

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