The North Coast Limited was a named passenger train operated by the Northern Pacific Railway between Chicago and Seattle via Bismarck, North Dakota. It started on April 29, 1900, and continued as a Bu
The postwar diesel streamliner before the 1954 redesign
NP 300 (later renumbered 386), pulling the first North Coast Limited train on April 29, 1900, near Portland, Oregon. Photo by George M. Weister of the Angelus Studio.
The train and route in 1911.
As the Vista-Dome North Coast Limited, with its onboard stewardess-nurse.
The Mainstreeter was a passenger train on the Northern Pacific Railway between Chicago, Illinois, and the Pacific Northwest from 1952 to 1971. When the North Coast Limited got a faster schedule in Nov
North Coast Limited
…and taking 46 hr 30 min to Seattle. The North Coast then became trains 25 and 26; numbers 1 and 2 were given to a secondary Chicago-Seattle train, the Mainstreeter, which took its name from the Northern Pacific advertising slogan "Main Street of the Northwest." Until 1954 the North Coast was painted in the “Pine…
The Holiday Lounge on the Mainstreeter.