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1934 Empire Builder Brochure

Posted on September 16, 2013 by Train LoverJuly 21, 2018

To commemorate the 175th anniversary of the birth of James J. Hill, who built and managed the Great Northern Railway, here is a video about Hill produced by the Minnesota Historical Society.

The first person interviewed in the video is Thomas White, who for many years curated Hill’s business papers at the James J. Hill Library in St. Paul. The other man who was interviewed, Craig Johnson, made a couple of errors: he says Hill tried to build into Canada but was forbidden from doing so by the Canadian government, so he built west instead. In fact, he did build into Canada to Winnipeg, and only built west when it became plain that the Canadian government would not incorporate Hill’s American railway into the planned Canadian Pacific Railway. Johnson also suggests Hill was worth more than $250 million when he died; it was more like $60 million.

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Northern Pacific Semicentennial Folder

Posted on September 15, 2013 by Train LoverSeptember 15, 2013

In 1883, Northern Pacific financier Henry Villard celebrated the completion of the transcontinental line with a fabulous “golden spike” ceremony (which didn’t actually use a gold spike), and then promptly had a nervous breakdown over the company’s weak finances. To commemorate this event fifty years later, the Northern Pacific published this folder and cover announcement.

Click image to download a 2.2-MB PDF of this folder.

The folder has an announcement glued on top, which I Photoshopped out of the image shown above. The PDF has the cover both with and without the announcement. Since the interior and back cover of the folder are both blank, I didn’t include them in the PDF.
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Northern Pacific Steam On-Board Stationery

Posted on September 14, 2013 by Train LoverAugust 27, 2013

Unlike the previous NP stationery from the heavyweight era, this one doesn’t mention air condition or roller bearings, so it must be from the 1920s or early 1930s.

Click image to download a 151-KB PDF of this letterhead.

The image of the steam locomotive on the letterhead doesn’t show the wheels, and from the front the first NP 4-8-4 locomotives (which were built in 1927) looked very similar to the NP’s earlier 4-6-2 locomotives. One difference was in the pilot (“cowcatcher”): the 4-6-2s appear to have had more slats than the 4-8-4s, though this could change as wooden pilots were rebuilt from time to time and neither had as many as appear in the above drawing.

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North Coast Limited Dining Car Brochure

Posted on September 13, 2013 by Train LoverAugust 27, 2013

This undated brochure doesn’t mention air conditioning or roller bearings, suggesting that it was printed before the mid-1930s. Northern Pacific was proud of its dining car service, having been the first transcontinental railway to offer a dining car on its trains (as documented in the book, Dining Car Line to the Pacific).

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In 1909, NP introduced the “Great Big Baked Potato,” spuds grown mainly in Washington’s Yakima Valley that averaged 4 pounds in size. These became the railway’s signature dish, and the above brochure notes that the railway’s diners served 90 tons of red meat and 50 tons of poultry, but 265 tons of Great Big Potatoes each year.

Pikes Peak Menu

Posted on September 12, 2013 by Train LoverAugust 27, 2013

Here’s a breakfast menu from 1939 that’s a mate to the 1941 dinner menu I posted last May. Where the dinner menu featured Mesa Verde on the cover, this one has Pikes Peak.

Click image to download a 1.1-MB PDF of this menu.

Both menus feature trout and have a cute logo reading, “Mountain trout every day in the dining car.” The trout were probably farmed, but the railroad had a ritual where the train would stop and a fisherman outfitted with a rod and creel would hand the fresh trout up to the dining car.
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Exposition Flyer Menu

Posted on September 11, 2013 by Train LoverAugust 27, 2013

After the Panoramic and the Scenic Limited but before the California Zephyr was the Exposition Flyer, the first through train allowing coach as well as sleeping car passengers to go from the Midwest to California over the Rio Grande route. Like the Scenic Limited, the Exposition Flyer used the Western Pacific from Salt Lake City to Oakland, but unlike the Scenic Limited, which went over the Missouri Pacific to St. Louis, the Exposition Flyer used the Burlington to Chicago.

Click image to download a 348-KB PDF of this menu, which is from the California Zephyr Virtual Museum.

As the name suggests, the Exposition Flyer began operating in 1939 to take passengers to the Golden Gate International Exposition, which took place on Treasure Island in San Francisco Bay. However, the train was so successful that the three railroads continued operating it until 1949, when they replaced it with the even more successful California Zephyr.

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Scenic Limited On-Board Stationery

Posted on September 10, 2013 by Train LoverAugust 27, 2013

Wall Street financial whiz Jay Gould gained and lost control of the Erie, Union Pacific, and numerous other railroads. When he died at the age of 56, the largest railroad he left to his son, George Gould, was the Missouri Pacific, which had a line from St. Louis to Pueblo, Colorado. George acquired control of the Denver & Rio Grande, and mortgaged it to build the Western Pacific in order to have his own transcontinental railway.

Click image to download a PDF of this letterhead. The Denver & Rio Grande became the Denver & Rio Grande Western in 1921, so it is possible that this letterhead predates that year.

Though Gould eventually lost control of these railroads, from 1915 to 1946 the Scenic Limited covered the St. Louis-Oakland portion of this transcontinental route. Despite the name and stationery, the Scenic Limited wasn’t really a through train. In fact, at least in the 1921 Official Railway Guide, neither the Missouri Pacific nor the Western Pacific used the name “Scenic Limited” for the trains that connected with the Rio Grande’s trains number 1 and 2.

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Panoramic Views, 1950 Edition

Posted on September 9, 2013 by Train LoverAugust 27, 2013

By 1950, the Rio Grande no longer operated a train called the Panoramic, but it retained the name “Panoramic Views” in this updated brochure featuring streamliners and dome cars. As with the 1930s edition of the brochure, this one is undated, but it includes photos of dome cars that entered service in September, 1949, while the map still shows the Rio Grande Southern, which was abandoned in 1951, so the brochure dates pretty closely to 1950.

Click image to download an 8.5-MB PDF of this brochure.

Like the 1930s brochure, this one has about a dozen photos (11 scenic photos, two photos of passenger cars), but arranged differently. Also like the 1930s brochure, at least some of the photos appear to be hand-colored versions of black-and-white photos, though others, such as one of the Maroon Bells, appear to be color photos.

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Panoramic Views

Posted on September 8, 2013 by Train LoverMarch 29, 2015

The Denver & Rio Grande Western Railroad justifiably called itself “the scenic line of the world,” but its main east-west route from Pueblo to Salt Lake City by-passed Denver and lacked convenient connections with Chicago. Meanwhile, the Denver & Salt Lake Railroad had (with help from taxpayers in the counties the railroad served) built a 6.2-mile tunnel through the Rockies west of Denver, but completed its line only as far as Craig, Colorado.

Click image to download an 8.7-MB PDF of this colorful brochure.

In 1934, the D&RGW completed a line connecting its railroad with the Moffat Tunnel route, and eventually acquired control of the D&SL. This cut 175 miles off the journey from Denver to Salt Lake and allowed the Rio Grande to offer two scenic routes through the Rockies: one via Pueblo and the Royal Gorge of the Arkansas River and the other via Denver and the Moffat Tunnel. From 1934 to 1939, the main passenger train on the Royal Gorge Route was the Scenic Limited while the main train on the Moffat Tunnel Route was the Panoramic. From 1924 to 1931, a train of that name had operated on the Royal Gorge route, but was resurrected on the Moffat Tunnel route when that was opened up.

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Portland Rose Bridge Score Pad

Posted on September 7, 2013 by Train LoverAugust 11, 2013

This score pad uses the slogan, “A triumph of train comfort,” suggesting that UP’s marketing department didn’t alway keep its slogans straight. It probably dates from the early 1950s, as the size and design is identical to the Great Northern score pad from that era. The only differences are the parts relating to the individual railroads and trains.

Click image to download a 1.0-MB PDF of this score pad.

Yesterday I showed a postcard showing the interior of the Portland Rose dining car that I downloaded from Wikimedia. For the sake of completeness, here is another Wikimedia card, no doubt from the same ebay dealer, showing the interior of the Portland Rose club car, complete with painted roses on the walls and roses woven into the carpet and the upholstery of at least one chair.
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