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To round out yesterday’s lunch menu and the previous day’s … Continue reading
Category Archives: Scout
Here’s a lunch menu from the same era as yesterday’s breakfast menu, offering full lunches for just 30 cents (about $5.50 today). At that price, entrées were limited to Irish lamb stew with fresh vegetables or assorted cold meats with … Continue reading
In 1940, the Santa Fe advertised that passengers on the Scout could get “delicious Fred Harvey dining car meals for only 90¢ a day!” That breaks down to 25¢ for breakfast, 30¢ for lunch, and 35¢ for dinner. By 1941 … Continue reading
Today’s blotters, all of which are from the Dale Hastin collection, advertise some of Santa Fe’s less-important trains, starting with the Scout, Santa Fe’s answer to Union Pacific’s Challenger. Inaugurated in 1916, the train died in the early years of … Continue reading
In the pre-streamlined era, the Santa Fe Railway ran numerous named passenger trains between Chicago and Los Angeles, including the Los Angeles Limited (a name later also used by the Union Pacific); the California Limited; the Chief (which started in … Continue reading