In earlier postcard stories, we looked at examples of the ways US railroad companies promoted the National Parks.

Here is another example of how the railroad companies publicized the national parks when advertising railroad passenger services.

Glacier National Park, on the Canadian border in the state of Montana, was established in 1910.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glacier_National_Park_(U.S.)

The first hotels and lodges were built soon thereafter by the Great Northern Railway.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Northern_Railway_(U.S.)

Trips to these natural wonders were not simply for pleasure, the railroad proposes, but had spiritual value.

Quoting the popular author of mystery novels, Mary Roberts Rinehart, the postcard blurb asserts, “…go ride in the Rocky Mountains and save your soul.”

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Roberts_Rinehart

The Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad (reporting mark CBQ) was a railroad that operated in the Midwestern United States.

It was commonly referred to as “the Burlington Route”.

In 1970, the “Burlington Route” was consolidated, with other regional railroads and the Great Northern Railroad, into the Burlington National Railroad.