% Z5He North Coaster Vol. XXVI]! Number 2 NORTHERN PACIFIC RAILV/AY—Main Street ol the Northwest March-April 1957 Vista-Dome ‘North Coast’ Now Leaves Chicago 12:15 pm; lmportant New Train Connections Are lllade atlmin Cities lNew Schedule is ldeal lfor “400” and Twin Star Rocket Transfers West Chicago Departure ls Now 45 Flt: | Minutes Later—No Change West of Billings, Mont.
Northern Pacic Train No. 25, the west- ‘ bound Vista-Dome North Coast Limited, i now leaves Chicago Union Station daily Ii at 12:15 pm, 45 minutes later than before. The new schedule became eective April 28. The train leaves St. Paul 7:15 pm and Minneapolis 7:45 pm, 35 minutes later, ABOUT 150 MILES BEYOND the and catches up with the previous sched- mid-point of its westward race across ule at Billings, Mont., thus trimming the continent from Chicago to the North 45 minutes from the Chicago-Billings Pacic coast, Northern Pacic's Vista- and Chicago-North Pacic Coast running Dome North Coast Limited pauses in time. ight at Billings, fast-growing Montana The new schedule provides direct metropolis. NPs recent schedule change connection at St. Paul with the Chicago does not aect arrival time at Billings. & North Western "400", Train No. 401, which, on its new schedule eective April 28, leaves Chicago 12:15 pm and - arrives St Paul 6 45 m and for NEW SCHEDULE 1 ~ = P . .<=&NW NP of westbound Vista-Dome E:-:1i]n62?g grlgm Omaha, which arrives St.
For Vista-Dome NCL North Coast Limited The **4w"-North coast Limited con- nection at St Paul, with arrival at 6 45 A new eet of all-stainless steel dining E6CtiV¢ pm and de mltur t 7 15 FE _d? Sunday, Apfil p ea : pm,oersiea F;-lgrsthévgiii igzaciiiiigsed ‘git; gioi:‘eYe?qi;)r:~}1: Lv_ Chicago (CB&Q) 12:15 pm service for C&NW patrons in Wisconsin . . . ' . Aurora ...... l2:52 pm —MiiWauk99- Madison» Mai'iii0W°¢~G!‘99n Coast Llmlte.d' Chl.cag°'N°nh Paclc Savanna 2:32 pm 8337- E311 Claire and Oiiiel‘ ¢iii95—Wh° coast streamliner I trams 25 and 26- East Dubuque 3:13 pm are traveling west of the Twin Cities. The order for six diners and two addi ' prairie du chie} :55 pm The 7:15 pm departure of the Vista- tional Vista-Dome cars was recently La Cmsse 0 pm Dome North Coast Limited from St. Paul Placed with the Budd Company, Phiiadel-, Winona 5 pm also further assures connections for pas- phia. Cost of the cars will be approxi- A,-_ st Paul 5 pm sengers on_ Rock Island's Twin Star mateiy $2,120,001 §Lv. stl Paul ("Neill'i55eiiie§.lII:..IlI 5 pm Rocket, Train 508, from Texas, Kansas, When delivered. the new diners will Minneapolis 5 pm Missouri and Iowa points. due at St. replace a line of lightweight dining carsi Staples :56 pm Paul 6500 Pm- built in 1954 which will be put in service Fargo .... 55 pm Under the new schedule, passengers on The Mainstreeter, NP’s second trans- Jamestown 30 am from Duluth-Superior. destined to North continental trains. Bismarck ..... 03 am Dakota, Montana and west may board . . . . 3 i ~me 2:30 am the “North Coast" at Minneapolis, St. “seating calialty °f “E mugs Wm bet 4:15 am Paul or at Staples, Minn. The Pool Line persons’ elg t -more an-t t a-cconxl Glendive 6:12 am Gopher from Dull"-h'suPeri°' arrives "wdated by the (.lmer5.°w m service" ‘ Miles City 7:32 am Minneapolis 6:15 pm and St. Paul 6:45 large ceml seam“ ll" seal’ 32 and .lw° 1:-Orsyth g;3g am pm, connecting with the coast train in glasslpartmned Sections will Seat eight Ar. Billings am either cit)" Ti1iS permits passengers peTr;On:eac ' . . Lv. Billings am {mm the Headhof the_Lakes to enjoy a e ome cars will be duplicates of a . W . -- 5. famously good NP dinner 1 the V1513- eet of 20 Raymond Loewy-designed Twig;-at Blumgh am; chi lb “moi Dome. North Coast L"imited ndining' car, )1 Vista-Dome coaches and sleepers added Ar as on . 1 ' ' . . . . k - ...... 10.45 or 8 tasty budget to the North Coast Limited in 1954. $22,122:! (SP&s> dinner in the Travel- 7.15 l ler's Rest buet. NP Train No. 57 .4 Acquisition of the dining and dome Tacoma ‘I50 am Duluth-Superior's' direct connection with " cars is one Phase Of NPS Plans 10 sperwil Seattle ...... I..II:..:.1].,.l: Q50 am ‘he ‘N°1"1i\ C0855 at Siavies-_ "OW leaves more than $3 million on passenger equip- ~~ ~ ' A ~ Diiii-i1i1_6105 Pm and suP9Ti°i‘ 5116 Pm I ment and improvements this year. Geiermann Become: Seattle CPA; and arrives Staples 9:30 pm, 30 minutes
~ Snow Succeed: Him at Minneapolis , later. C M d T f cl b VP R. W. Geiennann, City Ticket Agent at~ Beginning May 5. Train 26, the east- °“"°" " ° "‘ ° " Minneapolis. has been appointed City bound Vista-Dome North Coast Limited, M- F- COHHOI‘. N0l‘1h9I'n Piwic G@I1- Passenger Agent for Northern Pacic at will leave Butte, Mont., 7:45 am, 10 vfi A89"! in Cincinnati» i185 been Bieed Seattle. R. M. Snow, Seattle oice ticket minutes later, to make connections second vice president with of the Cincinnati clerk. succeeds Geiermann at Minne- Union Pacic Train 29 from Los Angeles Traic Club. iapolis. and Salt Lake City.
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t <"/l’-7‘~'\ ¢ Publlnlieil by the Passenger Traic Department NORTHERN PACIFIC RAlL"A\', ST. PAUL, MINN.
G. ‘I RODINE - - Plnengrr Trnie Manager |.l'l().\'ARl) |lOL\l§'l'R().\| General Pnnvngrr Agent I". C. SCUTT - - - Western Pan. Traie Mgr. WILLIAM A. DHKENZIE - - - -- Edllor Q® HAD! II U. S. A. P50 Patrons Can Park Free at NP’s Spokane Depot ' Enlarged Facility Houses Freight A
nd PlI8¢8¢I' Pwnnel; , TWO NEWLY REBUILT coffee shop- Hall Becomes DPA coach cars are now in service on Northern
_ __.._._.__ l Pacic's Twin Citiesl- Fésgfo - Winnipeg Northern Pacic now extends free trains. Two more are s at or operation parking privileges to its customers at the °“ NP ‘rams between Sgattle and SP0" newly enlarged Spokane depon A siza_ kane, Wash. The attractive coee shop ble area across the street from the station Seem)“ labove) accommodates 10 persons building will provide parking for pa5sen_ 0 on cushioned, leather-covered seats. Be- gers on ouoofnown trips as wen as for i neath the counter are compartments for those transacting business at the depot. purses and pa°kageS' A la cane meals’
A new addition, erected at the east 1 snacks and. beverages are serve‘-1 at rea' end of the depot. and a remodeled por- l ggn? le pr;ces'blThe (ralch p°;u°n1.se.ats tion of the main depot now accommodate m aim (ma e’ up 0 Stare. rec mmg freight and passenger personnel and other Seats w.1th leg rests (Sh°.Wn ght)‘ The 1 1 NP en decorative scheme, done in shades of rose oca o ces .
C. H, Hall, recently appointed City , galilt-gel and ic0r§ltsand' is 3?
Passenger and Picket Agent, has received ‘ walls y C 0 u seen C pic ures on e a change in title from CP&TA to District ' ~ §fj§‘°:§,fpo*}§°"‘ 3‘ "‘° "a‘“° °*“°° t “°“' Life Will Be Easier with Tape Recordings
l and Escalators for St. Paul Depot Patrons
0 Railroad passengers never had it so‘? r good_in so poop anyway Westinghouse elevator division to.install with railway companies doing ovo,-y_ szx new electric stairways serving 12
thing nossiuo to make train travel more ‘ track platforms and has called on the
attractive to customers, and especially to ‘ eld 9f, electmmcs l-° Pllravel and milke nrosnootivo customers‘ the so pan] Union intelligible those familiar, foghorn-like Donot Co_ is won along on an imp,-ove_ _train announcements. The latter was done mont program to streamline its own by installing a sound system which em- faoimios_ ploys, among other features, a message
In addition to restyling the ticket win- 3 repeat?‘ and tape r°c°"ll"g5- dows within the building and installing Slau°n_5l°P5 °_f all lralns are_rec°rd_°d a new drive-in. curbside ticket oice out- '0“ tapes m 3,"°1¢e ch°597_‘ for "5 clan’-Y side, the Depot C0. has let a contract to am-l '°"e,qua]llY~ A MP9 '5 Plalled at ‘hf? e~~_ _ ~- _ , proper time and. when the playback is . ,c-omoletcd, th= station announcer steps lntllan Days Fete Set ito the microphone to call out the track departure number. for August 29 3 and No longer does it sound like a horse The fqh annual All Ame-rim“ Indipn l race broadcast or a tobacco auctioneers
Days exposition at Sheridan, Wyo., will Q tmiguc trippings. The traveler knows be held August g_ 3 and 4_ what train is leaving. where it is going,
Instituted at_Sheridan in 19_53 as‘ an ‘ 3":°:;;té° meet ii and when l° head for :?;:'-:::'a;.:2:’i:‘;:::::;:a;::§:;;?;'":;0 The Wm be i"S“1!@d “MODEL ENGINEER"-James (Jaw ‘more than 5.000 members of more than “"8. at a ‘ems W" a 1°-mom“ Period LUCK 3'2-Yea!‘-Old Mlm‘le3P0ll5 boy, 40 dierent tribes of Plains Indians from l begnlnmg. m August‘ .By May. 1' 1958‘ models an Np cardboard ~-Engineer" can 2o States all six will be operating. Arrival and
Sllcll 85 youthful PHSSEDQGTS On the VlSl- Coincident with this event is the con- l departure tracks have been altered for 3 Dome North Coast Limited receive from test to select Miss (Indian) America, l number °f "mns ‘O brmg most passe” the stewa,.dosS_norso_ Jay is the grand_ Young women from tribes in 3o States gers to platforms served by the escalators.
S0n Of George H. Luck, Traffic Manager and Canada have participated in the con- i MW“ of General Mills, Inc., Minneapolis. test since it began ve years ago. Pacic Northwest Got First Many of the Indians who take part in Pullman Sleeping Cars in 1881 Pullman Travel Sets Safety Record the festival are from reservations in First punmnn spooning oars in ‘no More thanii‘65 million passengers have Nmthem Paclc te"'"°rY- _Am°ng them Pacic Northwest were placed in oper- traveled in Pullman cars on trips totaling are CFOW, Chcyennes and S10UX- ration between Walla Walla, Wash., and nearly 40 billion miles since 1951 without Northern Pacic passengers can reach ‘The Dalles, Ore., on June 21, 1881, by the a single passenger fatality, according to Sheridan via Billings, Mont., where con- Oregon Railway & Navigation Co., then
the Association of American Railroads. . nection is made with Burlington Lines. lafliated with the Northern Pacic.
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Coronation Will Launch Portland Rose Festival Roses, Pagentry, Ski Races and Parades are 49th Annual Carnival Highlights
Gala coronation ceremonies will open the 49th annual celebration of Portland's Rose Festival, according to an announce- ment by the Festival association. Dates for this internationally famous salute to the rose have been set at June 10 to 16 this year to coincide with the national convention of men's garden
I clubs, also taking place in Portland.
l In the customary, rst major event, last year's Queen Sharon I will place a crown on the brow of the princess se- NORTHERN PACIFIC’S Vista-Dome North Coast Limited carried these high lecqed from among nine candidates rep- school seniors from Billings to Chicago on the rst leg of their educational tour to resenting Po;-1]and’5 high Sc]-mo]5_ These Washington, D. C. Success of the tour has prompted plans to make it an annual .1-ega] ,-1195 Wm take pi;-.n;e ag Mu]/‘non-‘ah affair for seniors of Billings Central Catholic high school. stadium' the rst evening of the cele- ‘ *’"" ‘_*""*" ” bration.
i New Rodeo Win Run 80 Day; Downhill ski races on the_snow slopes
§ at West Yellowstone Arena 1 ?l M°““‘ H°°d ‘mil P°"la"d 5.a“"“al 3" , i estival are additional headline attrac-
. Visitors to Yellowstone and Grand tions on the program. Other fun-fare will
Teton national parks who would like to ‘ include several evening shows at the take in a rodeo during their vacation in stadium featuring many big-name celeb- the West will be pleased to learn they rities, marine and aquatic events, horse can do so any evening from June 15 shows and the junior rose festival parade.
lhmugh Lab" D3)" ' But the climax of the carnival is the Jim Manix‘ prgduqer of the Rawhide Grand Floral Parade through the city’s Rodeo Co., has announced a schedule of S1!‘9@lS 0" satllfday, June 15- The H550- .80 consecutive evening shows between Cialion BXPQNS more than 7501000 5P°¢la' ‘ [hose dates at 3 per-[nanent arena in West (OPS line the ve-mile l‘0I.ll8 Of il‘llS Yellowswne, Mont colorful, oat-packed procession.
C t t' f th , h' h' willollesalt-siielosltlevgral geggxuieznrox the‘ U- 5- G“'° w°'ld sl°°Pl“K C'" usual rodeo structure, according to The world's rst sleeping car for trav- WHEN ROY DUNLAP, popular St. Manix, wih be completed in time for the 4 eler use was invented in 1837 by Philip Paul Pioneer Press columnist, boarded June 15 opening. .Berlin in Pennsylvania. the Vista-Dome North Coast Limited at St. Paul recently, he was greeted by a former co - worker, Stewardess - Nurse Geraldine Yanta. Dunlap was on his way to address the annual meeting of the Missoula, M0nt., chamber of commerce. Miss Yanta was a nurse for the St. Paul Dispatch and Pioneer Press before she joined the Northern Pacic. Two Traffic Men Retire; NP Promotes Six Others Six promotions and two retirements within Northern Pacic railw:iy's traflic department became eective April 1. V. E. Wcihs, Assistant General Agent. Freight Department. Seattle, has been named Assistant to the Western Freight Trallic Manager at Seattle to succeed R. H. Schacffcr. who has retired alter 42 years with the company. John Renner. Traveling Freight and Passenger Agent at Seattle. succeeds Weihs and G. B. Nelson. City Freight and Passenger Agciit at Seattle, succeeds Ren- ner. Successor to Nelson is H. J. Bond, LATEST ADDITIONS to the staff of Spokane and was on the nursing sta at Traveling Freight and Passenger Agent stewardess-Nurses who Serve aboard Maynard hospital in Seattle before com- at Yakima. Wash.. and N. D. Richardson. ‘Northern Pacic's Vista-Dome North mg £0 the NP- chief clerk at Walla Walla, Wash., takes Coast Limited are Shari Lvnn Fain (left) Miss George halls from California where over Bond's former position. Y . ' she spent ve years as a public health t and Madelon Geoige. _ In another change. E. E. Bowman. chief _ nurse for Los Angeles county. Prior to clerk in the Fargo, N, D., traffic oice. I M155 Falflv who was queefl 0f sP°l"a"‘-‘5 joining Northern Pacic she attended was promoted to City Freight and Pas- I-»lla¢ Fesllval last Seal? 15 3 "all"? of the University of Washington from which senger Agent at Butte. Mont.. to succeed i Walla Walla. She completed her training she was graduated last December with 3 B. E. Lamb, who has retired. lat Sacred Heart school of nursing in master's degree in nursing_ 4 The North Coaster
COMING EVENTS in the Northern Pacic Country
MINNESOTA May 17-19—Mctropolitan Opera, Miiiiie- iapolis July 6-August 31—Pop Concert (Wed., Fri. & Sats.). St. Paul July ll-14—Annual Water Carnival, De- troit Lakes July 20-23—Aquatennial, Minneapolis Aug. 24-Sept. 3—Minnesota State Fair, St. Paul WISCONSIN August 20-25—Tri-State Fair, Superior NORTH DAKOTA Jun‘; 11-13—Diam
July 23-Aug, 3—Diam0nd Jubilee Cele- ‘ NP's Passenger Tratc Manager, and L. J. Bartholomew, Pullman Co. Superin- bration, Dickinson tendent‘. Mr, Cralilne, senior conlductor 1Il;eI.I'I€ St. Paul CIlStI‘lC$ sgice 194?‘, has gaveled
- - i more t an six mi ion mi es on is run tween C icago an t e Nort Paci c coast Aug‘ 18'24_Red River Valley Fair’ Fargo ; since he began in 1912. “I've crossed the Rockies and Cascades more than 26 hun- , .. U .. MONTANA dred times, he said, and I still enjoy every trip. June 2 and 3—Rodeo, Range Riders Re- union, Miles City Philadelphia Passenger Assn.
June 3-8—Forsyth Horse Show, Forsyth 3 Chooses Schilling as President July 3-5-—Rodeo, Red Lodge E. Paul Schilling, Milwaukee Road, was July 4—Saddle Club Rodeo, Sidney elected president of the Philadelphia Pas- senger Association at the annual election July 31-Aug. 4-Indian Pow-Wow, Polson of ofcers. 11—National Fresh Water Derby, l August l Named rst and second vice presidents, Livingston - respectively, were John O. Baker, Amer- August 13-18—Midland Empire Fair, Bil- ican Express, and Arthur R. Kruse, lings Burlington. Aug. 18-24—Festival of Nations, Red Other officers chosen included Ronald E. Lodge Phelps, Canadian Pacic, secretary; An- Aug. 29-31—Eastern Montana Fair, Miles drew A. Stockert. Santa Fe, treasurer, City land Albert E. Rohmer, Great Northern, ; historian. Santa Fe's Edward I-I. Hateld, IDAHO ythe club's retiring president, was named
Sept. 6-8—Rodeo, Lewiston 1 to the board of governors.
l WASHINGTON Champion Band Rides on NP May ll-18-—Lilac Festival, Spokane Moorhead July 3-5—Pow-Wow, Toppenish to for Music Clinic The honor-laden Joliet Ill Township
: AW 2'11—5°=*"'° seafairi 5°‘*"1° ARMED wrrii CAMERA, carnations V high school band rude NOfllI€l'll Pacic's
Alli? 29'5°Pl- 1*s°"lhea5l°m wa5hing‘ l and some last-minute going-away pres- Mainstreeter to Moorhead, Minn., recently I0" Fair’ Walla walla .ents, Washington State's Cherry Pie as guest performers at the seventh an- Sept. 2—Rodeo. Ellensburg Queen. Donna Madson. boarded the nual Northwest band-
21_29_w - W h' t F- ' _l Vista-Dome North Coast Limited at King , masters’ clinic. septpayanup “tun as mg on dlr Street Station’, Seattle, bound for ChiC8go This famous organ- ization holds the Se t 29—Se'ittlc Times Salmon Derby and an invasion of-l-he National -Cherry na- pseamo ‘ ‘ Pie Baking competition. Presenting the tional championship gifts to his sister is John Madson. At band trophy in per- OREGON the station to give her a proper send-off manent possession by June I2-l6—Rose Festival, Portland were many classmates and the high school virtue of having taken
Sept. ll-l4—Round Up, Pendleton , band from Donna's home town, Arlington. rst place in national competition three WYOMING Indianap;lis7(;ub Kremer years in a row. And ALlLlSi.'2-4—5Il‘l Annual All Anieric_an as Associationvs 1951 President in the 1953 presiden- Indian Days: Miss (Indian) America tial inaugural parade Contest, Sheridan The Indianapolis Passenger Association the band led the has elected theseofcersfor 1957: Aaron J. ‘I " k M Illinois section and _“ W N ' A Kremer. Monon. president; Hugh R. Sul- ' " “"5” “cc placed rst among all Robert Ripley Must Have Planned It livan. New York Central, vice president, musical groups in the procession. In the Dominican Republic there is a and Dal‘-‘ Carpenter, Milwaukee R°ad» Led by Bruce H. I-Iouseknecht, who has 42-mile railroad that was nancied by the 5'~'¢'*"@lary'1l‘@a5uI'9T- directed the band since 1945, the party Dutch, built by Belgians, has British Chosen as members of the advisory of 158 student-musicians and parents bridges, United States rolling stock, is board were Dean Eaton, MOPac; Paul made the trip in special cars. They owned by the Dominicans and operated Rue, Union Station ticket oice, and played in concert for more than 5,000 by Americans. 1Howard D. Cedereld, Santa Fe. .at Concordia college in Moorhead.