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Like yesterday’s menu, this one was used on the Capitol Limited. However, it is larger (about 8″x11″ vs. 7″x10″) and has a few more items on it, including two plate meals. B&O never seemed to date its menus, so I … Continue reading
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This dinner menu has the same cover (in a slightly different color) as yesterday’s lunch menu. Instead of advertising something as utilitarian as piggyback service, however, the back cover promotes the Strata-Domes in service “on three B&O Dieseliners”: the Capitol … Continue reading
The front cover of this lunch menu has a photo of the capitol building after which the Capitol Limited is named. The back cover, however, advertises the “new” trailer-on-flatcar service, which it notes was inaugurated on the Baltimore & Ohio … Continue reading
October is National Apple Month, and in the Octobers of the 1920s and 1930s the Great Northern and Northern Pacific often celebrated apples in their menus. This made sense as Washington state grows more apples then the rest of the … Continue reading
In January, 1951, the Baltimore & Ohio introduced domes to its premiere Pullman train, the Capitol Limited. Like the Columbian, the Capitol Limited connected New York, Baltimore, and Washington with Chicago, and in later years the two were combined into … Continue reading