The Mark Twain Zephyr

Posted on by January 28, 2014
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The fourth Zephyr built, after the original Zephyr and the Twin Zephyrs, was the Mark Twain Zephyr, which operated between St. Louis and Burlington, Iowa via Hannibal (Samuel Clemens hometown). Burlington had not yet started to name all its stainless-steel cars “silver something”; instead, the train’s locomotive and cars were named after characters from Mark Twain stories: Injun Joe, Tom Sawyer, Becky Thatcher, and Huck Finn. The rear drumhead was a bas relief bust of Mark Twain over his signature applied to the stainless steel itself.


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Before being put into service on October 27, 1935, the train did some speed runs for the press during which the train sustained an average of 122 miles per hour for three miles. In service the train went round trip between St. Louis and Burlington each day at an average speed of a little more than 40 mph.

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NP 1928 Yellowstone Guide

Posted on by January 27, 2014
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This booklet was published two or three years after yesterday’s tour book, which came out in 1925 or shortly thereafter. The only date I can find in this one is February 1928 on the centerfold map. This only proves it wasn’t published before 1928. While I think 1928 is likely, it could have been a year or so later.


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Burlington Escorted Tours, which was introduced in yesterday’s booklet, appears to be quite a success in this one, which mentions tours to the Pacific Northwest, Alaska, the Black Hills of South Dakota, and seven tours to California. Some of these tours rely on other railroads such as the Santa Fe, whose “Indian detours” are specifically mentioned. However, the booklet refers potential travelers to another publication to get tour details and costs.

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NP Yellowstone Park Tour Book

Posted on by January 30, 2014
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This 60-page booklet includes 55 black-and-white photos describing Yellowstone Park and the surrounding area–several featuring the Cody Gateway–as well as the trains tourists could take to reach the region. It also announces the creation of “Burlington Escorted Tours,” a joint effort of the Great Northern, Northern Pacific, and Burlington railroads.


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“After a great many years of study of the needs and wishes of the great and rapidly increasing number of summer travelers drawn westward by the magnetic lure of America’s great National Parks and other scenic and recreational areas of the Rocky Mountains, and in pursuance of a time-honored practice of affording their patrons every facility and convenience tending toward more vacation and enjoyment, the Burlington Route, Northern Pacific Ry., and Great Northern Ry., have this year established a series of Escorted Tours which it is confidently believed will prove of the greatest aid and convenience to a host of western travelers vacation bent.” Whew! Try saying that out loud without pausing for breath.

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New North Coast Limiteds

Posted on by January 25, 2014
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In response to the addition of the Empire Builder to the Great Northern’s timetable in 1939, the Northern Pacific completely re-equipped the North Coast Limited in 1930. As the Northwest’s only all-Pullman train, the North Coast Limited had a cachet that the Great Northern train’s lacked. The addition of first-class parlor cars to the NCL’s consist during daylight hours didn’t reduce that cachet; Pullman passengers knew they wouldn’t have to rub shoulders were mere coach or tourist-sleeper passengers in the diner. Of course, with the onset of the Depression, the train’s all-Pullman status wouldn’t last long.


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This brochure touts the fact that the sleeping cars are “ten-one-and-ones,” meaning ten sections, one compartment, and one drawing room (25 beds total). This supposedly means the “cars never seem crowded” and there is a “comfortable spaciousness every traveler will enjoy.” Empire Builder sleepers came in several configurations ranging from 23 to 28 beds. None of the beds on the NP train were larger, but the demand for the communal restrooms would be less on cars with fewer beds. However, the rest rooms were generally sized to account for the number of beds, so this shouldn’t have been a major issue.

The Chicago & North Western North Coast Limited

Posted on by October 28, 2022
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No, that’s not an April Fool’s joke: the North Coast Limited really was a Chicago & North Western train for about seven years in the 1910s. This seems peculiar for those used to thinking of the train as a Northern Pacific-Burlington partnership, especially since NP bought nearly half of the stock in the Burlington Railroad a full decade before partnering with the C&NW.


Click image to see a larger view of this 1911 postcard.

When NP began operating the North Coast Limited in 1900, it was a Seattle-St. Paul train. Passengers from or continuing east of the Twin Cities had to change trains in St. Paul, and at that time the St. Paul Road (what is now called the Milwaukee Road) was probably the most popular choice.

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Northern Pacific Letterhead

Posted on by January 25, 2014
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Here’s a piece of stationery that NP staff might have used to write to customers or other railroads. It doesn’t have a return address, nor does it particularly focus on passenger or freight except to note that NP is the “route of the vista-dome North Coast Limited.”


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Northern Pacific Ticket Envelope

Posted on by January 24, 2014
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A printer’s mark dates this envelope to November, 1961. Inside reveals that a Mrs. A. W. Baker is leaving Portland on Tuesday, June 15, to go to Helena. The only year between 1961 and 1970 in which June 15 fell on a Tuesday was 1965, so that’s when the envelope was used.


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Curiously, the passenger is routed from Portland to Helena via Seattle. That seems strange since the Spokane, Portland & Seattle Railway had excellent connections with the North Coast Limited in Pasco, Washington. The answer comes from a little stamp by the ticket price: Mrs. Baker is getting the employee rate, but employees couldn’t use that rate on the North Coast Limited. Instead, she is taking the Mainstreeter, NP’s secondary transcontinental, which did accept the employee rate. Passengers could take an SP&S train to meet the Mainstreeter in Pasco if they were willing to sit in the station between trains from 2 am to 4:35 am; to Mrs. Baker, at least, making the trip via Seattle must have seemed a lot more attractive.

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Olympic National Park Postcard

Posted on by January 24, 2014
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Is it possible to find a more uninspiring photo of Olympic National Park, an area known for its glacially-carved peaks, giant old-growth trees, and stunning sea coast? Except for one tree on the left whose true size is unknown for the lack of any scale, this postcard manages to avoid all of these.


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The postcard says it shows the Bailey Range. Below is another photo of the Bailey Range. How could the NP photographer miss such a spectacular sight? This postcard was issued in the same 1948-1953 time range as yesterday’s, so the problem might be the fault of the colorist as much as the photographer.
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NP Columbia Gorge Postcard

Posted on by January 24, 2014
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NP’s postcard of the Columbia River Gorge was taken from the same spot as, but several decades later than, the Union Pacific postcard presented here a few weeks ago. The two-lane highway visible on the cover of the 1959 UP travel booklet is also discernible in the postcard, which (with the reference to vista-domes on the back) dates it to the late 1950s or early 1960s.


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The road was expanded to four lanes in the 1960s. As the photo below shows, the gorge is as beautiful today as ever. From Chanticleer, the four-lane highway is partly obscured by trees so hardly detracts from the scene at all.
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Timberline Lodge

Posted on by January 24, 2014
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Timberline Lodge is an unforgettable building, so important to the Northwest that Southern Pacific even based the lounge car on the Shasta Daylight on the timber-framed structure’s interior. Northern Pacific tries to capture the place in this postcard, but whoever hand-colored the photo has obviously never been there. After all, this is timberline, which means pretty much everything above this point is bare rock or snow–so why is the mountain green?


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Below is a “real photo” postcard of Timberline Lodge, postmarked 1939, by Sawyer’s–the same photo company that invented and made View-Masters. The NP postcard is clearly based on this photo. I can’t find any recent color photos taken from the same spot, and I suspect construction of the lodge’s parking lot has obscured the location from which the photo was taken.

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