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Just a few months ago, we had a Southern lunch menu with a fruit basket on the cover like this one, but the cover was printed in black and green This one has the addition of a reddish-orange color. It … Continue reading
Category Archives: Crescent
This booklet advertises the New Orleans connection between the Sunset Limited and Crescent, allowing passengers to go from coast to coast. As mentioned here previously, this “Washington-Sunset Route” was advertised from 1946 to 1949 and again from 1954 to 1956. … Continue reading
I rode the Southern Crescent in both 1977 and 1978, but I probably collected these in 1978 with yesterday’s timetable. The first is a nice piece of stationery that shows the Southern’s distinctly painted E units and the logo with … Continue reading
After Amtrak had taken over most American passenger trains, leaving the Southern Railway to operate the only private overnight train in America, the Southern’s menus, some of which I posted here a few months ago, offered passengers the opportunity to … Continue reading
Although this lunch menu is five years newer than yesterday’s dinner menu, it has an identical cover (except for the word “Luncheon” rather than “Dinner”). Despite five years of inflation, the menu still offered a print of the 1401 pulling … Continue reading
When Southern Railway decided not to join Amtrak, its president was Graham Claytor, who not only promoted passenger trains but supported steam-powered passenger excursions. Since the locomotives used for those excursions had originally been built for freight service, Claytor asked … Continue reading