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
The eastbound North Coast Limited shown on the cover of this menu is missing one of its four dome cars and one of its two flat-topped coaches, suggesting it is a winter consist. According to the Ron V. Nixon Photo … Continue reading
Like the menus presented in the last couple of days, this one is an 8-1/2″x11″ card. But unlike those menus, this one comes with the slogan, “Route of the Vista-Dome North Coast Limited,” so it is possible it was used … Continue reading
Here’s another menu that was probably used on the Mainstreeter. Compared with yesterday’s lunch menu, this one has a slightly more elaborate illustration of a train at the top of the menu rather than the bottom. The meals on the … Continue reading
The bottom of this menu has an illustration of a train that doesn’t have any dome cars, so the menu was likely used on the Mainstreeter or another secondary train, not the North Coast Limited. As an 8-1/2″x11″ card, not … Continue reading
