This cover painting is unusual for Santa Fe menus in depicting a scene in Chicago instead of Arizona or New Mexico. The painting is by Frederic Mizen, who did many paintings for Santa Fe including Albuquerque station and Taos Pueblo. … Continue reading
Unlike Santa Fe’s premiere streamliners, the Grand Canyon apparently did not rate a welcome-aboard brochure. Instead, the railway made this timetable available to the train’s passengers. Click image to download a 949-KB PDF of this brochure. We’ve previously seen the … Continue reading
After Santa Fe streamlined its premiere trains, the Grand Canyon Limited remained a heavyweight and clearly had a secondary status. But, as this menu illustrates, it was a top-notch operation in 1930. In fact, the train was barely more than … Continue reading
Today’s blotters, all of which are from the Dale Hastin collection, advertise some of Santa Fe’s less-important trains, starting with the Scout, Santa Fe’s answer to Union Pacific’s Challenger. Inaugurated in 1916, the train died in the early years of … Continue reading
This card presents the 1966 timetable for the Grand Canyon, with westbound on the front and eastbound on the back. The card is in the same format as the timetables in the timetables of principal trains, though with differences in … Continue reading
This is another dinner menu from the Santa Fe Grand Canyon whose interior is identical to yesterday’s Monument Valley menu and last month’s Grand Canyon menu. The cover painting is by Gerard Curtis Delano, an eastern artist who moved to … Continue reading
Monument Valley, which is located on the Navajo Indian Reservation, was made famous by John Ford westerns in the 1930s. So many Santa Fe passengers who had never actually been to the valley probably still recognized the cover of this … Continue reading
Santa Fe inaugurated the Grand Canyon Limited in 1929. Though the train received some streamlined cars in 1947, it continued to operate with a mixture of streamlined and heavyweight cars through most of its life. As of 1950, when this … Continue reading
