New Years Day comes just a week after Christmas, and Omaha Union Station followed up its Christmas 1948 dinner menu with this New Years 1949 menu. Except for the cover, the menus are exactly the same: same appetizers, same soups, … Continue reading
Built in 1931, Omaha Union Station welcomed all the railroads that wanted to connect with Union Pacific, including the North Western, Milwaukee, Missouri Pacific, Wabash, and even, for some reason, the Rock Island (which Union Pacific didn’t favor because it … Continue reading
We’ve seen Thanksgiving menus aboard UP City trains that only offered the traditional roast turkey as an entrée (but otherwise were very elegant). Here is a City of San Francisco Christmas menu that offers a choice of entrées: sole, pork … Continue reading
Americans traditionally spend Thanksgiving with their families, but a few lucky people occasionally spent a Thanksgiving on board a train. The luckiest got to spend Thanksgiving on a train with a fancy dining car such as the City of Los … Continue reading
I’ve presented this souvenir of the 1969 Golden Spike Centennial before, but at the time I was unable to make decent reproductions of the locomotive portraits contained inside. Also, I recently learned that the original folio contained four locomotive portraits … Continue reading
Despite the loss of so many trains, Union Pacific still managed to fill a 36-page timetable. This meant there were a lot of blank columns in schedules that once showed several trains and now showed only one. Click image to … Continue reading
With this timetable, the City of St. Louis was gone and replaced by the City of Kansas City as the Wabash had decided to stop participating in a through train on this route. Wabash still had a St. Louis-Kansas City … Continue reading
By 1967, Union Pacific only had one train a day between Chicago and San Francisco and just one between Chicago and Portland. But, in addition to the combined City of Los Angeles/Challenger, this timetable still shows a second train between … Continue reading
Here’s another timetable contributed by Tim Zukas. Since yesterday’s timetable, issued 10 months before this one, the page count dropped from 44 to 36. This was mainly by combining schedules that had previously taken up two pages into one page. … Continue reading
We’ve previously seen an April 1964 timetable. This one, whose scans were (like yesterday’s) generously donated by Tim Zukas, is similar but in both timetables the number of trains has thinned out from the previous decade. Click image to download … Continue reading
