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The Overland Limited was a shadow of its former self when Southern Pacific decided to dress it up by adding a dome car in 1955. This brochure, issued in March 1956, encourages people to “see the High Sierra by day” … Continue reading
Category Archives: Overland Limited
The San Francisco Overland Limited was one of Southern Pacific’s premiere trains. Yet this lunch menu is little more than an ordinary sheet of paper, slightly larger than 8-1/2″-by-11″, folded in thirds like a brochure. The menu is undated, but … Continue reading
Here is an elegant blotter that uses the same logo and typeface as a piece of on-board stationery that I posted here more than two years ago. As I noted then, they show the Golden Gate before the construction of … Continue reading
Although the San Francisco Overland Limited went from Chicago to Ogden on the Chicago & North Western and Union Pacific railroads, this menu is marked for the Southern Pacific. This suggests that the railroads each switched their own diners into … Continue reading
We’ve seen this cover before on a 1954 lunch menu. The two menus have many similarities, but also some significant differences. Click image to download a PDF of this menu. Although some prices went up slightly between 1949 and 1954, … Continue reading
We’ve already seen this cover on a 1947 lunch menu. The lunch menu was fairly ordinary, with four table d’hôte meals and a few salads, sandwiches, and other a la carte items. This breakfast menu offers more choices, with seven … Continue reading
This postcard shows the Overland Limited “observation parlor with library writing desk and stenographic service.” The “library” apparently consisted of the books in the elegant, glass-fronted cabinet and the magazines on top. The “stenographic service” was the typewriter and an … Continue reading
As previously noted, the Southern Pacific was the last of the three “overland” railroads to actually use the name Overland Limited, as Union Pacific and Chicago & North Western began using the name no later than 1895 while SP did … Continue reading