Starting in 1957, the Great Northern put this eye-catching cover on its complete timetables. Whereas the 1947 and 1951 timetable covers were printed with just two colors (green and orange), with green print on all inside pages, this timetable cover … Continue reading
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This condensed timetable requires just four pages the same size as the full 1955 timetable. The condensed version gives the schedules for Great Northern’s main trains, leaving out the dozens of local trains that the railroad was rapidly discontinuing anyway. … Continue reading
Great Northern’s summer 1955 timetable was the first to feature dome cars on the Empire Builder. The domes are illustrated in an ad on the back cover whose drawing is carefully cropped to disguise the fact that the dome closest … Continue reading
The streamlined Empire Builder was introduced in February, 1947, so this is the first summer timetable featuring that train. A full 21 pages of this 44-page booklet are devoted to Great Northern trains (including connecting Burlington and SP&S trains), partly … Continue reading
This timetable is for the SP&S, Oregon Trunk, and Oregon Electric Railways, which–the timetable duly notes–were “subsidiaries of Northern Pacific and Great Northern Railways.” The is the first timetable I’ve posted, mainly because timetables are lengthy, tedious to digitize, and … Continue reading