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IMAGES OF THE WEST: Trains of Discovery

Railroads and the Legacy of our national parks

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Beginning seasonally in the summer of 1913, the Great Northern added open observation cars to its trains passing through Glacier National Park. Photos courtesy Roberts Rinehart PublishersNorthern Pacific Railway ad campaigns promised adventure and wide open country on the Yellowstone Park Route in the early 1900
Nathaniel P. Langford of the 1870 Washburn, Langford, Doane expedition. NPS photosA re-enactment of Washburn-Langford camp and "the Yellowstone Campfire" where discussions about the future of the Yellowstone went from privatization to promoting it as the first national park. NPS photosFerdinand Hayden leader of the Hayden survey of 1871. The railroad executives hoped Hayden
Hayden Geological Survey Expedition members at Firehole Basin; both photos by William H. Jackson; 1872. NPS photosPartners in preservation by J. Craig Thorpe, commisssioned by the Izaac Walton Inn. Photo courtesy Roberts Rinehart Publishers
In 1934 passengers prepare to board the westbound Empire Builder at the East Glacier Park station. Photo courtesy Roberts Rinehart Publishers
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