Northern Pacific - Image Gallery

Seattle/Portland–Chicago North Coast Limited arriving Chicago Union Station, May 1958.

Chicago–Seattle/Portland North Coast Limited, 10 miles west of Livingston, Mont., Feb. 8, 1947.

Seattle–Spokane local train 6, nicknamed “Sagebrush Annie,” crossing Columbia River at Pasco, Wash., 1950s.

Chicago–Seattle/Portland North Coast Limited, somewhere in Montana, illustrating Northern Pacific’s practice of separating dome cars with at least one flat-roofed car.

Seattle/Portland–Chicago Mainstreeter departing Glendive, Mont., Sept. 6, 1956.

4-6-6-4 with westbound troop train, operating as second section of train 1, the North Coast Limited, at Missoula, Mont., April 1945.

Chicago–Seattle/Portland North Coast Limited between St. Paul and Minneapolis, 1945.

Chicago–Seattle/Portland North Coast Limited at Highview, Mont., on the west side of Homestake Pass.

Seattle/Portland–Chicago Mainstreeter at Plains, Mont., mid-1964.

Publicity photo in the North Coast’s dining car showing the serving of a dinner that includes NP’s signature “Great Big Baked Potato,” 1950s.

Seattle–Portland train 408 departing King Street Station, Seattle, in August 1949.

Chicago–Seattle/Portland North Coast Limited climbing 3 miles west of Livingston, Mont., with 4-8-4 road engine and 2-8-2 pusher.

Postcard showing stewardess with mural in Traveller’s Rest lounge car of Chicago–Seattle/Portland North Coast Limited.

Garrison–Butte, Mont., train 288, connection to Butte for east- and westbound Mainstreeter (which ran via Helena), in Silver Bow Canyon west of Butte, late 1940s.

Chicago–Seattle/Portland Mainstreeter crossing the Sheyenne River “High Bridge” at Valley City, N.Dak., in 1964.

Chicago–Seattle/Portland North Coast Limited departing Livingston, Mont., in 1954.

Artist Edgar Miller with his mural in one of the North Coast’s Traveller’s Rest lounge cars, 1955.

Motor car B-21 working as Fargo–Streeter, N.Dak., train 139 at Sheldon, circa 1960.

Postcard advertising North Coast Limited, 1955.