This menu, dated September 8, 1949, offers four luncheon meals: chef’s salad ($1.45, about $12 today), halibut ($1.65), boiled brisket of corned beef ($1.65), and a club sandwich ($1.85), all of which (except for the chef’s salad) come with juice, … Continue reading
This menu, with its vivid cover photo of San Francisco’s Chinatown, is dated August 26, 1949. The breakfast menu’s seven complete meals include broiled fish, lamb chops, ham or bacon and eggs, eggs alone, ham, bacon, or sausage and one … Continue reading
Eclipsed by the streamliners, in 1955 the Overland Limited would be cut from a Chicago-San Francisco train to an Omaha-San Francisco train, and after 1956 it had only coaches–not even a diner. So this menu from 1954 represents about the … Continue reading
In October, 1947, when this menu was issued, the City of San Francisco had long replaced the Overland Limited as the premiere train on the route. The Overland was no longer an extra-fare, all-Pullman train, and UP/SP had mixed streamlined … Continue reading
Unlike yesterday’s stationery, this one lists the Chicago and North Western as the connecting railroad from Chicago to Omaha. It also has a nice little graphic of the sun setting behind the Golden Gate, entrance to San Francisco Bay. Click … Continue reading
This piece of on-board stationery seems to be from an early incarnation of the Overland Limited. At some point, the railroads started calling it the San Francisco Overland Limited, as hinted on this stationery, even though the only other Overland … Continue reading
“With the single exception of its eastern counterpart The 20th Century Limited,” wrote Lucius Beebe, the Overland Limited was for a period of time “the most radiant and celebrated train name in America.” Where the Century survived as a premiere … Continue reading
