This is the first edition of a booklet that we’ve seen before with a different cover and many different interior photos. The painting on the cover of this booklet was done by Leslie Ragan for the Budd Company and, while … Continue reading
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We’ve seen a Northern Pacific die-cut menu in the shape of an apple and a Salt Lake Route booklet in the shape of an orange. Great Northern even had a die-cut menu in the shape of a fish, which I … Continue reading
Although this menu looks a lot like the breakfast and lunch/dinner menus previously shown here, it is significantly smaller: 6×9 rather than 7-1/2×11-1/3. Unlike the food menus, this one isn’t blank on the back, instead using that space to summarize … Continue reading
This menu apparently served for either lunch or dinner. Since the meals on it were “available throughout the day,” someone could even use it to order breakfast. Click image to download a 782-KB PDF of this menu. Black sildenafil espaƱa … Continue reading
North Coast Limited dining car menus were printed on glossy card stock. This isn’t quite as fancy, but the textured paper is very nice. Click image to download a 709-KB PDF of this menu. Eating right, exercising regularly, getting enough … Continue reading
“Relax in the most interesting railroad car you’ve ever seen!” says the back of this timetable. “It’s the new Raymond Loewy-designed Lewis and Clark Traveller’s Rest buffet-lounge on the Vista-Dome North Coast Limited.” A picture shows the interior but the … Continue reading
Vista domes have arrived and Northern Pacific can finally call its premiere train, the North Coast Limited, an equal to, or in some ways even superior to, the Empire Builder and Olympian Hiawatha. However, the Traveller’s Rest car would not … Continue reading
Northern Pacific’s Winter-Spring 1953 timetable (which appeared about nine months before its Fall-Winter 1953 timetable previously shown here) repeatedly advertises the North Coast Limited‘s “new fast schedule.” As noted here before, unlike Great Northern and the Milwaukee Road, NP didn’t … Continue reading
In addition to dining cars, Northern Pacific (and many other railroads) also operated “lunchrooms” in many of its train stations for the benefit of employees and the general public. In 1944, when this menu was published, NP had lunchrooms in … Continue reading
This menu is for a tour co-sponsored by Ohio Farmer and New England Homestead magazines. The latter appears to be out of business but Ohio Farmer is still published by Farm Progress, which also publishes Prairie Farmer, a sponsor of … Continue reading