This children’s menu was used at the El Tovar Hotel and Bright Angel Lodge in the Grand Canyon. Although it is undated, the prices (and a menu that I’ll present tomorrow) indicate it is from about 1968. Click image to … Continue reading
Category Archives: Santa Fe
The first revenue run of the hi-level El Capitan took place on July 8, 1956. A few weeks before, Santa Fe invited a select group of people — probably travel agents, writers, and possibly some elected officials — to take … Continue reading
This little booklet was no doubt designed to fit easily into a timetable rack and so doesn’t open out to 16″x9″ like many do. Although the booklet extols the “color and excitement” of California, it is filled with photos that … Continue reading
This 3″x5″ booklet says it was a souvenir of the Turquoise Room, the private dining room that formed a part of the dome car on the Super Chief. This car was introduced in 1950, so the booklet dates to that … Continue reading
The Southern Pacific and Santa Fe both advertised access to Carlsbad Caverns. The Santa Fe’s Amarillo line passed through Clovis, New Mexico, from which it offered afternoon or evening train #25 184 miles to Carlsbad and morning train #26 back. … Continue reading
The Super Chief was inaugurated as a Diesel-powered, heavyweight train in 1936, and as a streamliner in 1937. But Santa Fe was unable to acquire enough equipment to make it a daily train until 1948. Describing that daily train, this … Continue reading
During the war, the Super Chief‘s famous 39-3/4-hour schedule from Chicago to Los Angeles was increased by two hours, probably because the War Production Board decided that freight should have a higher priority. This brochure announces the return to “popular … Continue reading
President Coolidge declared Carlsbad Caverns a national monument in 1923 and Congress made it into a national park in 1930. I’ve been to the caverns and, while they are interesting, I suspect their year-round temperature of 56 degrees made them … Continue reading
The cover of this 1940 booklet is identical to another 1940 booklet shown here previously. But inside the two are very different. This booklet, dated May 31, has all black-and-white photos, while the other one, dated August 1, is all … Continue reading
Published by Fred Harvey with a 1911 copyright, this booklet contains 31 beautiful hand-colored photos and two paintings (including the cover) of the Southwest, which the editor apparently considered began in Colorado Springs and continued to Yosemite Park. The booklet … Continue reading