This 5″x6″ booklet is a mate to one issued in the same month (July) and year for the City of Los Angeles. Instead of the black-and-white photos found in most Union Pacific name-train booklets, these two contain color images that … Continue reading
Category Archives: City of San Francisco
Here are two more Union Pacific-style menus that were actually used on the Southern Pacific. Like other menus with photos of the San Francisco Bay Area, these two were usually used on the City of San Francisco or San Francisco … Continue reading
At least three Union Pacific menus showed San Francisco’s Nob Hill. I’ve previously presented two of them, including one dated 1957 (though I’ve seen this photo on a 1950 menu) and one dated 1963 (whose photo I’ve seen on a … Continue reading
We’ve previously seen a four-color brochure advertising the City of San Francisco dated November, 1955, or right after UP transferred its passenger trains from Chicago & North Western to Milwaukee Road. This one is dated August, 1955, and the only … Continue reading
This booklet describes the version of the City of San Francisco that was inaugurated on January 2, 1938. It included 14 passenger cars and three “power cars” or E2 Diesel locomotives. Each car is described in detail except for the … Continue reading
Here is a previously unknown menu photo that I found just a few weeks ago. The photograph looks very much like the one of Fisherman’s Wharf shown yesterday, but this photo is taken from a slightly different angle at a … Continue reading
As used by Union Pacific, all of the extra-flap menus are dinner menus with table d’hôte selections only and no a la carte side. I once thought that was to simplify work for dining crews on the dome diners, but … Continue reading
Flower sellers must have been a big tourist attraction in San Francisco at one time as Union Pacific devoted a 1950s menu cover to one and then this 1960s menu cover to another. This one was on my diminishing list … Continue reading
In keeping with a design change that was instituted in 1958 or earlier for Union Pacific’s dome-diners, this menu has a photo that fills the front cover but doesn’t wrap around to the back, there is an extra flap that … Continue reading
Here are several items that could have come from a single, somewhat circuitous, trip in around 1960. (But they didn’t; I received them from multiple sources.) Click any image to download a PDF of that item. First, you get an … Continue reading