This undated issue of Southern Pacific’s West bulletin to travel agents features the “new San Joaquin Daylight.” Since that train was inaugurated on July 4, 1941, this must have been published that summer. Click image to download a 4.4-MB PDF … Continue reading
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Dam construction created lots of business for railroads, so Southern Pacific was happy to hype Shasta Dam, whose construction began in 1937 and continued through 1944. It is clearly incomplete in these photos, which were probably taken in around 1940 … Continue reading
This issue of West isn’t dated, but it was published in time to advertise the December 15 inauguration of the streamlined Arizona Limited, which would place it near the end of 1940. To promote the train, the periodical advertises wintertime … Continue reading
This issue of Southern Pacific’s West contains almost no clue about when it was published. I’ve so far identified eighteen different issues of this publication, four of which appear to be from 1940, six from 1941, and four from 1942. … Continue reading
We’ve previously seen this cover on a 1937 lunch menu I found on the New York Public Library web site. Since then, I’ve acquired one of my own, a lunch menu from 1938. Click any images to download a 800-KB … Continue reading
Someone collected these menus during a 1937 tour that went from Chicago to Los Angeles on the Santa Fe, Los Angeles to Portland on the Southern Pacific, Portland to Vancouver on the Great Northern, and Vancouver east on the Canadian … Continue reading
New Orleans’ Vieux Carre (town square), today known as the French Quarter, was already more than 200 years old when Southern Pacific published this informative booklet in 1927. New Orleans grew to be the nation’s third-largest city by 1840, and … Continue reading
Today we have three more menus contributed by Streamliner Memories reader Laurie Powers. First is what looks like a breakfast menu from the “Steamer Restaurant Service” of the Northwestern Pacific Railroad. I suspect “steamer” has more to do with the … Continue reading
Southern Pacific probably had menu series before 1933, but the earliest I have date to around that year. Many SP menus were flimsier and smaller that those used on other western railroads. Exceptions were the Icon series, the 49er series … Continue reading
We’ve previously seen a dinner menu for the Golden State Limited from about 1940 and one for the … Continue reading