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 … Continue reading
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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 … Continue reading
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 … Continue reading
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 … Continue reading
The Ranch-o-Grams were a series of humorous postcards issued by Northern Pacific to promote dude ranches. Eight of them are shown in Railroad Postcards of Yellowstone of which I found five in the Minnesota History Center Northern Pacific archive. Click … Continue reading
Here are the last of the Northern Pacific Acmegraphic postcards that I found in the Minnesota History Center. These all deal with water features, mainly waterfalls. Click image to download a 319-KB PDF of this postcard. The postcard calls these … Continue reading
Here are four Northern Pacific Acmegraph postcards featuring scenes in and around the Grand Canyon of the Yellowstone River. Click image to download a 295-KB PDF of this postcard. This shows the Upper Falls of the Yellowstone. … Continue reading
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 … Continue reading
Robert Reamer’s masterpiece, Old Faithful Inn was opened in 1904 by the Yellowstone Park Company, which had been started by the Northern Pacific. Click image to download a 336-KB PDF of this postcard. This close-up photo shows part of the … Continue reading
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. … Continue reading